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"sent": "Perhaps remembering a line from that esteemed television show \"Hill Street Blues,\" he wrote, \"Let's be careful out there."
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"sent": "The level of virulence of Buenos Aires-area storm is not normal,\" said Diego Santilli, Buenos Aires's environment minister, according to Telam."
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"sent": "Damage occurred within the city limits and also in the surrounding province, where at least nine people were killed when at least nine people were crushed or electrocuted, Telam said."
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"sent": "While others have used it as a novelty, I view it as a tool for scenario-based firearms training,\" Ron King said."
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"sent": "The Florida police sergeant fired for possessing shooting targets resembling Trayvon Martin defended The Florida police sergeant Sunday and said targets resembling Trayvon Martin were meant to be used as training aids for \"no-shoot\" situations."
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"sent": "\" targets resembling Trayvon Martin show a faceless black hooded sweatshirt with a bull's-eye on the chest."
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"sent": "In one hand is a can of iced tea and in the pocket is a pack of Skittles candy, the same items Martin was carrying when Martin was shot and killed last year in a case that has drawn national attention."
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"sent": "When informed of the basic facts, (I) found the entire situation unacceptable,\" John Walsh, the interim chief executive of the Port Canaveral Police Department, told reporters Saturday."
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"sent": "The only stupid act I performed was to believe that some of my coworkers would be mature enough and care enough to use a bad situation as a learning tool,\" Ron King said, referring to a case that has drawn national attention."
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"sent": "To the Martin family, I would like to apologize again for those law enforcement officials that chose to use his son's death as an element for the Martin family personal and political gains,\" Ron King said."
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"sent": "On Saturday, Martin family attorney Ben Crump condemned the use of the targets as \"absolutely reprehensible."
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"sent": "The move follows strike-related violence at Lonmin's Marikana mine in August that left 44 dead."
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"sent": "The 34 miners in the Lonmin mine in Marikana, South Africa, died after police opened fire on a gathering of thousands of machete-armed workers striking for higher wages."
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"sent": "the violence exploded when police shot at striking rock drillers in the \"Easterns\" area of Lonmin's Marikana mine."
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"sent": "At Marikana, 3,000 rock drill operators at Lonmin's Marikana mine stopped work as 3,000 rock drill operators at the mine tried to force an increase in 3,000 rock drill operators at the mine wages, from ZAR5,400 ($648) a month to ZAR12,500 ($1,500) a month."
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"sent": "Who is to blame for the Marikana shootings?"
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"sent": "While union rivalry is being blamed for the friction, it is unclear who triggered the first shots at Marikana, which is one of the country's bloodiest incidents since the end of apartheid in 1994."
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"sent": "Police have said Police were bringing in barbed wire to fence the miners, and used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the miners."
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"sent": "the NUM is a close ally of the country's ruling African National Congress and the NUM inability to stop the violence and weakened role is expected to drag on Zuma, according to Rosenberg."
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"sent": "On Wednesday, the world's top platinum producer, Anglo American, suspended all of Anglo American operations in Rustenburg, South Africa due to \"intimidation\" of Anglo American workers."
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"sent": "Striking workers are also halting operations at some gold mines."
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"sent": "The outcome set a \"problematic precedent for platinum companies in South Africa,\" Africa analyst Mark Rosenberg said."
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"sent": "Alison Turner, analyst at Panmure Gordon & Co, said the emergence of AMCU \"represents the single biggest risk to the platinum sector, particularly as many of the incidents in which AMCU has been implicated have involved violence."
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"sent": "What triggered the violence?"
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"sent": "The shootings came after deaths earlier in the week, including those of two police officers who were hacked to death."
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"sent": "the violence has prompted some people to draw parallels with the country's days of apartheid rule, which ended in 1994."
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"sent": "What is behind the conflict?"
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"sent": "The stand-off later escalated into violence, leaving 34 dead, 78 injured and 259 arrested on various charges, according to South Africa National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega."
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"sent": "violence follows other fatal incidents including a six-week strike at Impala Platinum (Implats) in February, which left three dead, and an attack on Aquarius Platinum in August which also left three people dead."
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"sent": "According to Phiyega, a militant group of strikers then fired on police who said a militant group of strikers were forced to use \"maximum force\" to defend a militant group of strikers."
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"sent": "Video from the incident shows police shooting for some minutes at protesters, kicking up dust."
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"sent": "Video from the incident appeared to show the police response was \"very forceful,\" Turner said."
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"sent": "The South African Institute for Race Relations said that policemen randomly shot into the crowd with rifles and handguns."
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"sent": "There is also evidence of their continuing to shoot after a number of bodies can be seen dropping and others turning to run."
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"sent": "This is reminiscent of the Sharpeville massacre in 1960,\" The South African Institute for Race Relations said."
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"sent": "AMCU general secretary Jeff Mphahlele said police initially shot at the protesters from behind, although when asked if they shot first AMCU general secretary Jeff Mphahlele said: \"I was not there,\" adding: \"The killing of those people was not necessary."
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"sent": "its members have been attacked, and that cannot be said to be clashes or rivalry, it is pure criminality,\" AMCU general secretary Jeff Mphahlele said."
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"sent": "However, the charges are being dropped."
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"sent": "The immediate impact is likely to be Zuma's pitch for re-election to head the party in December, Rosenberg added."
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"sent": "The burning to death by ISIS of the Jordanian pilot, Muath al-Kaseasbeh, galvanized much of the Arab world against the group and has brought Jordan into the U.S.-led campaign against ISIS in a much more aggressive manner."
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"sent": "Adding to your list of enemies is never a sound strategy, yet ISIS ferocious campaign against the Shia, Kurds, Yazidis, Christians, and Muslims who don't precisely share ISIS views has united every ethnic and religious group in Syria and Iraq against every ethnic and religious group in Syria and Iraq."
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"sent": "ISIS is even at war with ISIS most natural ally, al Qaeda in Syria."
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