2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama bans the use of certain military equipment by police in the wake of recent deaths of unarmed black men by police officers; the move is meant to help communities see police as protectors rather than as an 'occupied force' 2014 Event Tension increases for New York City police after a man kills two officers to avenge the killing of two unarmed black men by police in recent weeks; police have been ordered to work in pairs and to consider their own safety first while on patrol 2012 Event Andrew Mitchell, the Chief Whip of the British Conservative Party, resigns over remarks he made to police officers in Downing Street 2011 Event Two police officers and five alleged members of the Taliban are indicted in Pakistan for murdering Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto 1996 Death 61 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in U.S. this year 1993 Event Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights 1993 Event Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California 1992 Event Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin 1991 Event Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs 1988 Event 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers 1981 Event Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers 1978 Event Memphis, Tennessee settles with striking police officers and firefighters 1975 Event Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases 1970 Event 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) 1968 Event Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg) 1962 Event 2 U.S. Army officers killed in Saigon 1957 Event Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers" 1955 Event 1st West German officers sworn in 1953 Event 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service 1944 Event 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) 1943 Event 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3 1943 Event Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn 1943 Event German under officers shot down in Haarlem, Netherlands 1942 Event Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrests 2,000 Dutch officers 1942 Event Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan 1940 Event 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium 1937 Event Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna and Uberevitch 1934 Event Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers 1917 Event Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers 1916 Event U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps 1913 Event 1st state law requiring bonding of officers and state employees, ND 1876 Event U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts 1783 Event General Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York City 1775 Event General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks 1775 Event Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army
