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The 23-year-old black man whose killing Saturday by a Milwaukee police officer sparked protests and violence was charged just last year with pressuring a victim not to testify against him in a retaliation shooting, criminal complaints show. The complaints obtained by FoxNews.com describe how Sylville K. Smith, while jailed in the July 2014 shooting, enlisted his girlfriend to tell the victim to sign a letter recanting his story, commanding her by phone to “stay on dude” and to “call [expletive] and tell him to fill out that form!” The victim eventually did recant his story, and both the shooting case and the witness intimidation case were dismissed later in 2015. Related Image Expa...

MILWAUKEE – Police said an 18-year-old man was shot and seriously injured at a Milwaukee protest on Sunday and officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve the man and take him to a hospital, as tense skirmishes erupted for a second night following Saturday's police shooting of a black man. Some two dozen officers in riot gear confronted about 150 people who blocked an intersection near the fatal shooting Saturday afteoon, and more arrived. Police moved in to try to disperse the crowd and waed of arrests after protesters threw bottles and rocks at police and shots were fired. Earlier Sunday, police Chief Edward Fly said the man whose death touched off Saturday night's rioting was sho...

The man who was shot and killed by a Milwaukee police officer on Saturday – an incident which sparked a night of violet protests – is seen on body camera footage with a loaded gun in his hand, officials said at a Sunday news conference. Sylville K. Smith, 23, was identified Sunday as the subject of a Saturday afteoon traffic stop that tued deadly when Smith allegedly ran from officers and then tued toward one with a gun in his hand. Both Smith and the unidentified officer who shot him are black, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Fly said. “The individual did tu toward the officer with a firearm in his hand,” said Fly, later adding that Smith “was raising up with” the gun. Fly said he had...

Hillary Clinton is getting hammered for saying on “Fox News Sunday” that FBI Director James Comey confirmed her statements on her email scandal were “truthful” – with one prominent fact-checker giving the claim four “Pinocchios.” The former secretary of state cited Comey when asked to account for her repeated claims that she never sent or received material marked classified on her personal email account. When host Chris Wallace noted that Comey said those things were not true, Clinton disagreed. “That's not what I heard Director Comey say … Director Comey said that my answers were truthful and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decis...

Hillary Clinton is getting hammered for saying on “Fox News Sunday” that FBI Director James Comey confirmed her statements on her email scandal were “truthful” – with one prominent fact-checker giving the claim four “Pinocchios.” The former secretary of state cited Comey when asked to account for her repeated claims that she never sent or received material marked classified on her personal email account. When host Chris Wallace noted that Comey said those things were not true, Clinton disagreed. “That's not what I heard Director Comey say … Director Comey said that my answers were truthful and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decis...

Investigators in Texas reportedly believe that the sniper who shot and killed five Dallas police officers Thursday had legally purchased the weapons he used in the massacre either on the Inteet or at a gun show. A law enforcement official told The Wall Street Joual on Monday that Micah Johnson used an Izhmash-Saiga 5.45 mm high-powered rifle in the attack. The weapon is a variation of an AK-style military weapon. The official said that Johnson was also carrying a Glock 9mm semiautomatic pistol and a .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol. However, it was unclear whether he had fired them in the attack. Dallas police said Friday that during a search of Johnson’s home, detectives found bomb ma...

The security company that employed Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen also is a federal contractor for the Homeland Security and State departments -- raising more questions about how he passed background checks despite being on the FBI’s radar screen and the level of security at a firm handling sensitive U.S. operations. Mateen, who killed 49 people and wounded dozens more early Sunday inside the gay nightclub Pulse, started working for G4S Secure Solutions in 2007 and until the attack was employed as an armed guard at a gated retirement community in South Florida. The U.K.-based firm has a far-reaching portfolio that goes well beyond retirement villages, however, with its U.S. arm ...

The security company that employed Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen also is a federal contractor for the Homeland Security and State departments -- raising more questions about how he passed background checks despite being on the FBI’s radar screen and the level of security at a firm handling sensitive U.S. operations. Mateen, who killed 49 people and wounded dozens more early Sunday inside the gay nightclub Pulse, started working for G4S Secure Solutions in 2007 and until the attack was employed as an armed guard at a gated retirement community in South Florida. The U.K.-based firm has a far-reaching portfolio that goes well beyond retirement villages, however, with its U.S. arm ...