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FILE - In this June 20, 2020, file photo a trooper stands outside the BOK Center where President Trump will hold a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla. In law enforcement, they’re referred to as “non-lethal” tools for crowd control: Rubber bullets. Pepper spray. Batons. Flash-bangs. But the now-familiar scenes of U.S. police officers in riot gear clashing with protesters at Lafayette Park in Washington and elsewhere around the country have police critics charging that the weaponry too often escalates tensions and hurts innocent people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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Critics question weapons tactics

by Larry Neumeister Associated Press, and Tom Hays Associated PressJune 21, 2020

NEW YORK — In law enforcement, they’re referred to as “nonlethal” tools for dealing with demonstrations that turn unruly: rubber bullets, pepper spray, batons, flash-bangs.But the now-familiar scenes of U.S. police officers in riot gear clashing with…

Attorney Gloria Allred, center, flanked by two of her clients, speaks during a news conference after leaving a Manhattan court where sexual victims, on invitation of a judge, addressed a hearing after the accused Jeffrey Epstein killed himself before facing sex trafficking charges, Tuesday Aug. 27, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

‘Coward’: Epstein accusers pour out their anger in court

by Tom Hays Associated Press, and Larry Neumeister Associated PressAugust 27, 2019

In this courtroom sketch, defendant Jeffrey Epstein, second from right, listens along with defense attorneys, from left, Marc Fernich, Michael Miller, and Martin Weinberg as Judge Richard M. Berman denies him bail during a hearing in federal court, Thursday, July 18, 2019 in New York. Judge Berman denied bail for the jailed financier on sex trafficking charges, saying the danger to the community that would result if the jet-setting defendant was free formed the "heart of this decision." (Aggie Kenny via AP)

Epstein denied bail in abuse case

by Tom Hays Associated Press, and Larry Neumeister Associated PressJuly 18, 2019

FILE - In this May 13, 2019, file photo, New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo leaves his house in Staten Island, N.Y. Time is running out for federal prosecutors to take action in the 2014 death of Eric Garner, the unarmed black man heard on video crying "I can't breathe" after Pantaleo put him in an apparent chokehold. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Police officer in ‘I can’t breathe’ death won’t be charged

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, Michael R. Sisak Associated Press, Colleen Long Associated Press, and Tom Hays Associated PressJuly 16, 2019

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2016 file photo, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is made to face the media in Mexico City as he is escorted by Mexican soldiers following his recapture six months after escaping from a maximum security prison. The notorious Mexican drug lord was convicted of drug-trafficking charges, Tuesday, Feb. 12 2019, in federal court in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Notorious drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman convicted

by Tom Hays Associated PressFebruary 12, 2019

In this courtroom sketch, Michael Cohen listens as he is sentenced in federal court, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 in New York. President Donald Trump's once-devoted lawyer and all-around fixer, was sentenced to three years in prison for allowing what he said was his "blind loyalty" to Trump to lead him astray. "I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds," he said. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

’Dirty Deeds’: Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen Gets 3 Years in Prison

by Larry Neumeister Associated Press, and Tom Hays Associated PressDecember 12, 2018

ADDS NAME OF FAMILY MEMBERS - Michael Cohen, second from right, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, accompanied by his children from left, Samantha and Jake, and his wife Laura Shusterman, right, arrive at federal court for his sentencing for dodging taxes, lying to Congress and violating campaign finance laws in New York on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen Gets 3 Years in Prison

by Larry Neumeister Associated Press, and Tom Hays Associated PressDecember 12, 2018

FILE - In this frame grab taken from a Monday, Dec. 12, 2016 video provided by the Mexican Attorney General's Office, or PGR, shows one of two tunnels found in an area of warehouses in the border city of Tijuana that lead into California. Authorities said the tunnels were apparently used by the Sinaloa drug cartel to move drugs into the United States. Witnesses in the trial of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman have said that by means including tunnels dug under the border and fake jalapeno cans, Guzman's cartel smuggled ton-upon-ton of cocaine into the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s. (Mexico's Attorney General's Office via AP)

‘El Chapo’ Trial Shows Drug Cartel Reign

by Tom Hays Associated PressDecember 2, 2018

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, surrounded by US Marshals, waves to his wife as he enters the courtroom at Brooklyn Federal Court, as his high-security trial got underway in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. The infamous Mexican drug lord has been held in solitary confinement since his extradition to the United States early last year. Guzman pleaded not guilty to charges that he amassed a multi-billion-dollar fortune smuggling tons of cocaine and other drugs in a vast supply chain that reached New York, New Jersey, Texas and elsewhere north of the border. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Trial of ‘El Chapo’ Begins in New York

by Tom Hays Associated PressNovember 13, 2018

FILE- In this Feb. 21, 2018 file photo, former Louisville basketball Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino talks to reporters during a news conference in New York. A recruiter, a coach and a former Adidas executive are scheduled to go on trial in New York in a criminal case that exposed corruption in several top U.S. college basketball programs. It also led to the firing of Pitino and sidelined the playing career of standout recruit Brian Bowen Jr. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

College Basketball Corruption Trial Gets Under Way

by Tom Hays Associated PressOctober 1, 2018