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Durham police fatally shoot man assaulting Circle K clerk, chief says

Virginia Bridges, Julian Shen-Berro
Officers shot and killed a person who was attacking a Circle K store clerk early Wednesday morning, according to Durham police.

Around 3 a.m., officers responded to a reported suicide in progress at the convenience store on N.C. 54 in southern Durham, Police Chief Patrice Andrews said at a news conference.

Officers were told a man was cutting himself inside the store, according to a Durham Police Department news release.

The front door was locked. Officers forced their way inside and “observed an assailant violently assaulting the store clerk with a sharp object,” Andrews said.

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Hillsborough police officer fatally shot man advancing with knife, Attorney General says

Suzanne Russell, MyCentralJersey.com
A Hillsborough police officer fatally shot a 19-year-old man who was advancing toward him with a knife, according to the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.

The man killed in the Sunday evening incident has been identified as township resident, Joshua Mathis.

The officer who fired his weapon has been identified as Christopher Michaels.

The shooting remains under investigation.

Hillsborough police responded about 6:12 p.m. Sunday to a 911 call about a man with a gun at an apartment on Corporal Langon Way, in a complex off Amwell Road about a half mile west of the high school, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

Arriving officers encountered Mathis inside the apartment, holding a large knife, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

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My Central Jersey

Thug learning curve is a brick wall. Links care of our Gun Bunny once again.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? […] The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!” —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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