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• ISIS Threatens Washington in Post-Paris Massacre Video

  16-11-2015 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.The video, which appeared on a website used by Islamic State to post its messages, begins with news footage of the aftermath of Friday's Paris shootings in which at least 129 people were killed, Reuters reports."We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day, God willing,
  
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• Washington State Patrol Faces Growing Shortage of Troopers

  16-11-2015 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Her eyes peering out from under a wide-brimmed Washington State Patrol trooper hat, Chelsea Krotzer recounts the day she helped rush blood to where it was needed for an emergency transfusion.She became the middle link in a relay of Patrol cruisers, ferrying the blood from county to county, zooming down a foggy highway, racing against time.“You never know what you’re gonna do when you come in to work,” Krotzer says in the recruiting ad, one of a series of billboard and radio spo
  
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• Video: Florida Officer Critically Injured in Patrol Car Crash

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  VIDEO: Florida Officer Critically Injured in Patrol Car CrashA North Miami Beach, FL, police officer is in critical condition at a local Hospital after she was involved in an early morning crash Sunday.North Miami Beach police said Officer Nicole Mood was driving her police cruiser at Northeast 163rd Street and Northeast 19th Avenue about 1 a.m. when another car slammed into the cruiser.The impact sent Mood's car into a light pole.Mood had to be extracted from her patrol car. She was rushed to A
  
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• Video: Car Theft Suspect Leads Michigan Officers on Wild Video Game-Style Chase

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  VIDEO: Car Theft Suspect Leads Michigan Officers on Wild Video Game-Style Chase Last Thursday a suspected car thief led officers of the Mount Clemens (MI) Police Department on a wild chase that injured four officers before he was apprehended.Footage from one of the patrol car's in-car video systems shows officers racing toward the suspect in a 1999 Saturn in the parking lot of Clinton Place Apartments. But the suspect doesn't stop, even as another officer points a gun at him.The officer doesn't
  
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• Police Shooting of Assault Suspect Sparks Protests in Minneapolis

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  Black Lives Matter activists in an encampment blocked the main entrance to the Police Department’s precinct headquarters in north Minneapolis Monday in the wake of police shooting and critically wounding a man over the weekend.The activists have alleged that 24-year-old Jamar Clark, who is black, was unarmed and handcuffed when he was shot early Sunday on the street in the 1600 block of Plymouth Avenue N. during a struggle with police.Police Chief Janeé Harteau has said her departme
  
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• Off-Duty Philly Housing Officer Shoots, Kills Man Who Reportedly Tried to Rob Him

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  Philadelphia Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a robbery suspect by an off-duty Philadelphia Housing Authority officer.The incident happened around 6:45 p.m. Sunday in the 400 block of West School House Lane.Police said the off-duty officer was walking westbound when he was approached by two males, at least one of whom was armed.When the men attempted to rob the officer, he fired seven shots, striking one suspect several times, police said. The wounded suspect was taken to Temple Un
  
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• Man Arrested After Gun Jams When He Tries to Shoot Pennsylvania Officer

  16-11-2015 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  An Allentown, PA, man is in custody after he tried to fire a gun at a policeman Sunday morning while fleeing arrest at a convenience store, police said.Hakeem R. Chappelle, 26, was carrying a .32-caliber pistol when he turned toward the officer and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed without firing, police Capt. Bill Reinik told the Morning Call."By the grace of God or whatever, the gun didn't go off," said Reinik, who said officer Stephen James showed a lot of restraint during the encounter.&nbs
  
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• Fallen Canadian Officer Honored with Craft Beer

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  It’s not a brew that will be available at every liquor store, but word is spreading quickly about an Edmonton, AB-produced craft beer being made in memory of a fallen police officer.Two Sergeants Brewing Co. says the launch of Patrolman’s English-Style Bitter in honour of Const. Daniel Woodall has been so successful, staff have had to work extra hard to keep up with demand.Woodall, 35, was fatally shot on June 8 after he and other officers responded to a hate crimes-related call in t
  
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• Colorado Trooper Hit and Killed on Highway Near Denver

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  The Colorado State Patrol says a trooper was outside her patrol car investigating a wreck on I-25 near Castle Rock Sunday at 8:50 p.m. when she was hit. She died from her injuries on the scene of the crash.She was later identified as 33-year-old Jaimie Jursevics. Jursevics has been with CSP since January 2011. She is survived by her husband and young child."We're all grieving," Colorado State Patrol Chief Scott Hernandez said. "We're grieving for the family of the trooper, and I'd hope that
  
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• California Deputies Kill Man Attacking Them with Hammer

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  A man was fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies after he refused to put down a hammer and charged at them, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department stated Sunday.Deputies with the Jurupa Valley Station responded to a report of unknown trouble inside a business in the 2900 block of Rubidoux Boulevard around 10 a.m. Saturday, according to a department news release.A man armed with a hammer was then contacted, and deputies used a Taser on him after he refused to drop the weapon.The T
  
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• Bratton: NYPD Is Preparing for Paris-Style Attacks

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  Police Commissioner William Bratton responded to the Paris attacks by reassuring New Yorkers that the NYPD is preparing for a similar type of attack here. "We still remain the number one terrorist target in the world, we believe," he told ABC 7 yesterday. ISIS is a highly organized and efficient terror group that has "surpassed Al Qaeda in their capabilities," he says, whose "vulnerability is minimal."On Morning Joe Monday, he scolded Silicon Valley for en
  
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