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Officer Run Over by 3-Time Deportee:  The man who ran over a Dallas police officer Monday outside a night club before being shot by police was an illegal immigrant who had been deported three times.  Claire Z. Cardona of the Dallas Morning News reports that 29-year-old Mexican-national Eduardo Gonzalez-Rios was escorted out of a night club on Monday evening and asked to leave the premises.  He then got into his SUV and backed into one of the three officers present, jumped a curb and ran "completely over" Sr. Corporal Ed Lujan, and backed over him again before attempting to drive away.  The two other officers at the scene fired their weapons and struck Gonzalez-Rios in the arm.  Lujan is recovering in the hospital with a broken sternum, nose, ribs, tibia and ankle, and a fractured vertebra and skull.  Gonzalez-Rios has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault against a public servant and is being detained on an immigrant hold by federal authorities.  His previous encounters with the feds were in Texas in 2004 and again in 2005, and in Missouri in 2011, for which he faced deportation.

Grand Jury Indicted Hundreds of Twin Peaks Bikers:  It took a grand jury in McLennan County, Texas, just nine hours to indict 106 bikers in connection with the deadly May shootout that resulted in the deaths of nine people and dozens of injuries.  Lana Shadwick of Breitbart reports that the bikers have all been indicted for the crime of engaging in organized criminal activity, a first-degree felony that carries a possible sentence of life in prison or 15 to 99 years, stemming from the May 17 brawl at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, where over 175 total arrests were made.  The bikers insist that they were at the restaurant to attend a regular meeting regarding motorcycle issues, but police characterized the meeting as "a gathering of criminal biker gangs with violent intent."  The grand jury, which will return November 18, has yet to consider evidence against 80 other bikers.

LAPD Officer-Involved Shootings Increase:  The president of the Los Angeles Police Commission said Tuesday that the increase in officer-involved shootings this year is an "alarming development" that must be addressed.  Elizabeth Hsing-Huei Chou of the LA Daily News reports that Matt Johnson, backed by fellow commissioners and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, made several proposals to combat officer-involved shootings, which jumped from 23 last year to 45 this year, to act as "tools to guide us on how and where we can improve the department."  Johnson's recommendations include:  a comparison of Los Angeles' officer-involved shootings and other uses of force with agencies across the country, analyzing changes in training and policies that have occurred over the past 10 years, looking deeper into implementing wider use of non-lethal weapons during interactions with suspects carrying weapons that are not firearms or those who are mentally ill, annual reporting of use-of-force cases, and involving the Office of the Inspector General to monitor and report back on police training programs. Chief Beck says it is "very heartening to see that the commissioner and I share a vision of what needs to happen."

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