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Demonstrators engaged police – mounted and on foot – in a protracted battle throwing stones, firecrackers, and smoke bombs.

Updated, 5 55 p.m. | A family was torn apart by violence early Tuesday morning as a son turned a gun on his own mother, killed his 13-year-old half-sister, and engaged police in a lengthy predawn shootout in Washington Heights, the police said.

Wednesday, 2 08 p.m. | Updated A family was torn apart by violence early on Tuesday morning when a man turned a gun on his mother after killing his 13-year-old half-sister, then engaged police in a lengthy predawn shootout in Washington Heights, the police said.

Muslim youths engaged police in running battles all day, killing one officer by slitting his throat.

More than 200 protesters gathered in Leimert Park Sunday evening engaged police in a brief standoff.

A gunman killed at least six people, including four children, and wounded a teenager in a Houston suburb and then engaged police in a three-hour standoff before finally surrendering late Wednesday.

* 14 January, 2016: Attackers set off bombs at a Starbucks cafe in central Jakarta and engage police in gunbattles.

The pair robbed a 7/11 and killed an MIT police officer before hijacking a car and engaging police in pitched battles in the suburb of Watertown.

This is the dangerous matrix that alarmed ministers: men who like raping women target those who won't engage police attention or confidence.

"The plan was to engage police in explosions and then aim at the headquarters, but the police were alert," he said, adding that there were six vehicles prepared to explode but that only three did.

That a small group of about a half-dozen attackers was able to penetrate the quarter — engaging police officers in a firefight to get the bomb-laden vehicle through the compound's outer gate — was telling.

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