1.   He never testified and never admitted to a role in the police killings.

2.   In Rio de Janeiro, by contrast, police killings are rising sharply, due to hard-line policies.

3.   Others called for the formation of a civilian review board to investigate police killings.

4.   Palestinians are concerned that recent police killings by Israelis of Palestinian protesters are assassinations.

5.   Police killing of immigrant spurs New York political crisis.

6.   After an international outcry, a shakeup in the police hierarchy led to a sharp but temporary decline in the number of police killings.

7.   Amnesty International recently wrote to the government of Maharashtra, of which Bombay is the capital, expressing concern about police killings.

8.   Authorities said Tuesday they are investigating the police killing last week of Cali drug cartel leader Jose Santacruz Londono amid doubts about the official police account.

9.   East Indian Guyanese also have protested police killings.

10.   Gunmen killed three traffic policemen at a checkpoint near the Dushanbe airport Friday, the latest in a wave of local police killings, the Interfax news agency reported.