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Democratic National Committee (DNC) CEO Amy Dacey and other representatives considering where to host the 2016 convention, get cheesesteaks at Pat's King of Steaks in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Philadelphia is one of five cities bidding to host the convention along with Birmingham, Ala; Columbus, Ohio; the Brooklyn borough of New York, and Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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San Diego City Councilwoman Myrtle Cole has publicly apologized amid calls for her resignation after she criticized black-on-black crime during a council meeting last week. (KPBS)

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The nomination of Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama's choice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, has been held up for months. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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The majority of the 129 officers gunned down were fatally shot by suspects with handguns as they responded to a call or self-deployed, but 27 officers were killed by a rifle, according to a study conducted by the Justice Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. (Associated Press)

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Gerald Sykes, a New Jersey homeowner, is in critical condition after he was shot three times by state police responding to the wrong address Friday night. (FOX 29)

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Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (U.S. Army), addressing the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016. Image via screen capture from the RNC's YouTube video of the speech.

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This undated file photo shows Alabama inmate Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., a one-time Ku Klux Klansman convicted in the 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham, Ala. Alabama's parole board is scheduled to consider Blanton for early release during a meeting on Aug. 3. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP)

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Sienna Miller has stated that she "loves guns."

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Hillary Duff was spotted with a glock firearms case in one hand and a plastic bag which contained a box of Remington bullets in the other. According to TMZ, she picked up a gun after getting a handgun safety certificate. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

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Madonna - “guns don’t kill people; people kill people.” (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

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The Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus, Ohio, which houses the Ohio Supreme Court. Image in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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A San Diego Harbor Police officer helps to secure the scene near the corner of 39th Street and Boston Avenue in San Diego near where two San Diego Police officers were shot Thursday night, July 28, 2016. (John Gastaldo/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

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At the scene of the shooting in San Diego.

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This undated file handout photo provided by the Waller County Sheriff's Office shows Sandra Bland. (Waller County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez, whose city was the scene of the ambush that left five police officers dead and seven wounded earlier this month, asked for the moment of silence. (Associated Press)

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Philadelphia, the city that just hosted the Democratic National Convention, is in danger of losing millions of dollars in federal funding for breaking the law. (Associated Press)

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A Georgia Tech University student who settled his case against the school for $125,000 earlier this month is the latest indication that courts are holding colleges accountable for failing to uphold the due process rights of students accused of sexual assault. (Associated Press)

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This undated file photo provided by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office in Ohio shows Rayshon LaCarlos Alexander of Columbus, Ohio. Rayshon Alexander was arrested July 11, 2016, and has pleaded not guilty to 20 counts, including murder, following a death and nine other overdoses that investigators say were caused by drugs that buyers thought were heroin, but were actually the animal tranquilizer carfentanil, used to sedate elephants and other large animals. (Franklin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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FILE -- In this April 22, 2009 file photo, Ingmar Guandique is escorted from the Violent Crimes Unit by police in Washington. Prosecutors have dropped murder charges against Guandique who is awaiting new trial in Chandra Levy case. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Officer Thomas Abrahamsen, 50, surrendered himself and was booked at San Francisco County Jail on gun charges. (San Francisco Police Department via KGO)