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| Baltimore man who died in police custody mourned at wake |
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 By Shannon Stapleton BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Mourners gathered at a Baltimore funeral home on Sunday to remember a 25-year-old black man who died a week ago while in police custody, an unexplained death that brought thousands to the city's downtown to protest police violence. The wake for Freddie Gray on Sunday afternoon came the day after the largest demonstration yet since he died on April 19 and two weeks after a foot chase with patrol officers, his eventual arrest and his ride in a police transport van. Anthony Batts, the city's police commissioner, said on Friday that officers who detained Gray failed to give him timely medical attention for a spinal injury he suffered while in custody. The head of the Baltimore police union said this assertion was premature and apparently "politically driven." Gray joined a growing number of black men who have died under questionable circumstances during police encounters in recent months.
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| Taliban kill second police chief from same Afghan province |
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| By Ismail Sameem KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The Taliban claimed responsibility for the second assassination of a police chief in Afghanistan in six weeks. "Last night ... the acting police chief Uruzgan and a bodyguard were killed by two infiltrated Mujahdeen," Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Taliban, said on his official Twitter account. Gulab Khan, the acting police chief of Uruzgan province, was shot and killed by a fellow officer, provincial governor Amanullah Timori told Reuters. |
| Police kill two in protest against Burundian president seeking third term |
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 By Patrick Nduwimana BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundian police shot dead two protesters and wounded at least one other on Sunday, the Red Cross said, in demonstrations against the president seeking a third term which critics say would violate a constitutional limit of two terms. Witnesses said police used water cannon, tear gas and in some cases live bullets to disperse demonstrators across Bujumbura. The authorities earlier banned all protests either for or against President Pierre Nkurunziza's renewed candidacy. African leaders and Western nations have urged Nkurunziza not to run again, and the United States and the European Union have indicated they could take punitive steps if violence erupted as a result.
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