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...wait and watch. But members of the hrt, especially the snipers, had been on constant alert and were wearing down. "My very first concern was that the Davidians would exit the compound with a child in one hand and an AK-47 in the other," Coulson says. "The only civilian unit that can eliminate the subject without eliminating the child are hrt snipers. They can hit a quarter-inch target at 200 meters." That meant, of course, that they had any number of chances to take out Koresh. But the agency's rules of engagement forbid them to fire...
Supporters of hate-crime legislation point out that the principle of enhanced punishment for certain categories of crime is well-established in law: the murderer of a police officer, for example, suffers a greater penalty than someone who kills a civilian. Moreover, the Supreme Court has set limits on the freedom to express certain antisocial ideas, like so-called "fighting words" that incite an immediate breach of the peace...
Parker said he had seen numerous changes in the department during his 15 years on the job. Chief among them has been the move toward civilian supervision of guards. When Parker became a supervisor, his colleagues included Sgt. Robert Sutherland and Sgt. Arthur Fitzhugh. Both sergeants, who are now employed elsewhere in the Harvard police, are Black...
...successes of his war on terrorism and to justify his "government of emergency" declared a year ago. The boasting did not go unanswered. In a violent response, Shining Path guerrillas set off bombs in Lima and ambushed a patrol in the countryside, killing seven police, three soldiers and a civilian...
...videotape, which the defense at the first trial dismissed as a partial record, and more on live testimony -- from weeping or infuriated police who rejected clubbing and kicking as unnecessary and wrong, from seasoned medical experts who debunked the defendants' blow-by-blow account, above all from previously unheard civilian eyewitnesses, including the victim himself...