A total of 965 people fell dead this year after hearing the blast of a gun that belonged to a police officer.

With police brutality at the forefront of the national conversation, a Florida police chief took to the YouTube comments section Tuesday to defend the actions of an officer caught on video pointing his weapon into a car full of black men who refused to stop filming the cops.

A North Carolina grand jury has decided not to indict a Charlotte police officer arrested last year for manslaughter after he unloaded 10 rounds from his pistol into a former college athlete who'd sought the officer's help. But the case might not stop there, according to prosecutors.

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Muppet-haired white crook Rod Blagojevich now says that his comment to Esquire that he is "blacker than Barack Obama" was a "stupid thing to say." And by "stupid," Rod Blagojevich means "dope." [AP]