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03:33 Riot police officers face youths during a demonstration, May 1, 2023 in Paris.Aurelien Morissar, AP Several nations voiced concern at the United Nations Monday over police violence, including against protesters, in France, as the country headed into another day of mass demonstrations.Attacks on migrants, racial profiling and religious intolerance were also raised during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) which all 193 UN countries must undergo every four years.

The UN's Human Rights Council calls on France to reduce police violence and take steps to address racism.France has been criticised by the United Nations Human Rights Council for increased police violence, including against protesters, as widespread Labour Day demonstrations take over the country.France must take measures to, in a transparent manner, address allegations regarding excessive use of force by police and gendarmerie against protesters during demonstrations, Sweden's representative told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, when France marks its annual Labour Day.

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Frustrated with local law enforcement agencies, Los Angeles County transit officials on Thursday rejected their proposals of a new contract to patrol buses and trains and signed off on a plan to explore creating their own police force.The move was a rebuke of local law enforcement that has been the backbone of security for Metro, costing the agency $912 million over the last six years.

John McCracken says he was shocked when he recently spotted a new sign at his local Loblaw-owned Superstore just outside Halifax, warning customers the store was conducting receipt checks when shoppers exit."I was really disgusted.I thought it was really adding insult to injury after all the price gouging," said McCracken, referring to claims Loblaw has inflated grocery prices which the retailer denies.

Almost a year after he was charged for wrestling a young Park Ridge teen face down on a sidewalk in Park Ridge's Uptown area, former Chicago Police Department Sergeant Michael Vitellaro will stand trial June 5, according to court records.Vitellaro faces charges of aggravated battery and two counts of official misconduct, according to previous reporting, and will plead not guilty to all three charges.

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Danny Hajjar has always been surrounded by Arabic music.He grew up in the U.S., but his parents are both Lebanese immigrants who had it on all the time.DANNY HAJJAR: So it's really intrinsic to who I am and to everything that I enjoy and try to do.CHANG: Over the last few years, he started to notice that this music was permeating through American pop culture in a different way.

With an upswing in drug use, rising crime and a growing number of drug overdose deaths on Metro trains and buses, transit officials are looking to increase security on the system.Twenty-one people have died on trains and buses in the Metro system so far this year.There was one homicide, but most died from apparent overdoses.

The News: Just a day before the Texas legislative session ended, state lawmakers approved a ban on offices and programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion at publicly funded colleges and universities.On Sunday, both chambers approved Senate Bill 17, which was sponsored by Brandon Creighton, a Republican state senator.

Since losing the 2019 mayor's race, Paul Vallas has been a prolific poster on social media.On his official Facebook and Twitter accounts, Vallas, who's again running for City Hall's top job, frequently drops detailed manifestos on crime, schools and more, many of which assail Mayor Lori Lightfoot's record and push his own ideas for how to lead the city.

A conservative activist named Bruce Friedman is trying to get over 3,600 book titles banned from Florida schools, including books that contain so-called "porn, critical race theory, social-emotional learning, [and] fluid gender."Friedman - who is president and founder of the Florida chapter of the right-wing education group No Left Turn in Education - presented this list during a November 28 meeting of the Florida Department of Education Library Media Working Group, a group that will train public school librarians on how to follow censorship rules signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) earlier this year.

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After recent revelations of racist text messages involving more than a dozen of its officers, the Antioch Police Department is now the subject of a lawsuit alleging race-based brutality.Plaintiffs Juan Laspada and Rebecca Rodriguez accuse a group of unnamed officers of excessive use of force and racial profiling in a lawsuit filed last week against the city of Antioch and the officers, according to the complaint.

A federal district court judge has ordered two years of probation rather than a prison sentence for a former chemical engineering professor who prosecutors said had illegally failed to disclose ties to China while employed by the University of Kansas.Prosecutors had sought a prison sentence of two and a half years for Feng (Franklin) Tao, whose 2019 indictment was among some two dozen cases brought forward against academics under the U.S. Department of Justice's China Initiative, according to Reuters.