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• Teen girl murdered her mother and mom's beau, police say - New York Post

  04-01-2016 23:39 via
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  Teen girl murdered her mother and mom's beau, police say
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  Destiny Garcia, 15, was charged in the double murder of her mother and mother's boyfriend. Photo: Facebook. Cops charged a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl with murder Monday after she confessed to killing her mom and the woman's boyfriend, sources said.
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• Unnamed Texas Officer Who Stopped Garland Terror Attack Nominated as "Texan of the Year"

  04-01-2016 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If this month’s deadly terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., has special resonance in North Texas, it’s because on a sleepy Sunday in May, it could have been us.Like San Bernardino’s husband-wife team, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi had desire and tools, if not specific instructions. Inspired by the Islamic State, they drove from Arizona to crash Pamela Geller’s Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland.Outfitted in body armor and armed with assault-style rifles and explos
  
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• Police: Dubuque toddler suffered 'facial wounds' from gunshot - Dubuque Telegraph Herald

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  Police: Dubuque toddler suffered 'facial wounds' from gunshot
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  According to a police report, a toddler injured at a Dubuque apartment Sunday night had "facial wounds" from a gunshot. Police said the 2-year-old boy lives in an apartment at 942 Main St. with family. The police report lists Raven J. Harris, 25, and ...and more »
  

• Video: California Officer Hit by Celebratory New Year's Gunfire

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  VIDEO: California Officer Hit by Celebratory New Year's GunfireA Stockton, CA, police officer suffered a minor injury at midnight when celebratory New Year's Eve gunfire hit his vehicle and then him.Travis Weber had just finished his shift and was unloading that vehicle at the department in downtown Stockton."I heard a loud pop and then felt a sting to my right leg. The loud pop was it (bullet) hitting the vehicle and then ricocheting toward me," Weber said.Stockton police warn th
  
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• Report Debunks Black Lives Matter's Killer-Cop Propaganda

  04-01-2016 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent unarmed people, some of them teens, just for sport.Except that these homicidal goons are wearing the blues and badges of American police departments.It’s the narrative that’s given rise to the protest movement Black Lives Matter and to a growing public mistrust of the police in general. From Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.,
  
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• Nevada Deputy Wounded at Domestic Violence Call

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  The Storey County (NV) Sheriff's Office has arrested a man who shot and injured a deputy during a domestic violence call in the Virginia City Highlands Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016.Storey County Sheriff Gerald Antinoro says it happened at 4:30 p.m. when deputies responded to a report of domestic violence in the Highlands area.Antinoro says when deputies arrived, 51-year-old Charles Stutts fired multiple rounds from a rifle, hitting a deputy and another person.Antinoro says the deputy was able to retur
  
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• In Oregon, Law Enforcement Faces Dilemma in Confronting Armed Group

  04-01-2016 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  The small band of antigovernment protesters who took over a group of federal buildings in rural Oregon said Monday that they aimed “to restore and defend the Constitution,” in particular the rights of ranchers, and set off a national movement, forcing the federal government to release its hold on vast tracts of Western land.The federal government, for its part, appeared content, for now, to monitor the situation and wait out the protesters, the New York Times reports.The F.B.I.&
  
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• Police arrest man for assault with a marijuana pipe - OregonLive.com

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  Police arrest man for assault with a marijuana pipe
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  Police arrested Donald Thomas Howard, 45, of Corvallis and charged him with first-degree assault. Police said Howard used a marijuana pipe to injure another man in the face. (Benton County Sheriff's Office). Print Email · Tony Hernandez | The Oregonian ...and more »
  

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• CMPD: Man killed in police shootout was suspect in recent murder - Charlotte Observer

  04-01-2016 20:51 via
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  CMPD: Man killed in police shootout was suspect in recent murder
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  Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police are on scene early Monday morning of an officer involved shooting that occurred Sunday night. An officer was shot in the leg and a suspect was shot and killed as officers tried to serve an arrest warrant on Watson Drive.
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• Video: Mississippi City Councilman's Remarks on Attacking Officers Spark Firestorm

  04-01-2016 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Mississippi City Councilman's Remarks on Attacking Officers Spark FirestormA Jackson, MS, city councilman angered the local and national law enforcement community last week when he recommended that people in his district should respond to officers from other jurisdictions pursuing suspects into their neighborhoods by attacking the officers with rocks, bottles, and bricks.In an interview with reporters on Thursday following a vehicle pursuit by Pearl police officers that ended in his distr
  
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• San Francisco Chief Asks DOJ to Review Department in Wake of Controversial OIS

  04-01-2016 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Police Chief Greg Suhr has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to review the San Francisco Police Department’s policies, procedures and training, police said Thursday amid criticism for the fatal shooting of Mario Woods on Dec. 2.Suhr is also seeking help from the DOJ’s Community Oriented Policing Services Office to decide how officers should respond to suspects with edged weapons, according to a statement. Woods was reportedly armed with a kitchen knife when five officers opened fi
  
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• North Carolina Officer Shot and Dragged After Traffic Stop

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  A Winston-Salem, NC, police officer and a suspect were wounded in a shooting following a traffic stop early Monday morning.The incident was reported just before 2 a.m. on Business 40 east near Lowery Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Officer Nicholas Powell, 27, was dragged a quarter mile and shot multiple times, while the suspect, Gary Lynn, 26, of Raleigh, had a single gunshot wound, said Winston-Salem police Chief Barry Rountree.None of the injuries are considered life-threatening, and
  
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• New Connecticut Law Prompts Agency to End Voluntary Use of Body-Worn Cameras

  04-01-2016 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  New, more restrictive, costly state policy effective Friday prompted the Berlin (CT) Police Department to stop voluntary use of body cameras, worn by officers to record dealings with the public.Berlin Police Chief Paul Fitzgerald, a retired state trooper who has led the 42-officer force since 2003, told the Hartford Courant the unfunded expense for new longer storage requirements, data retrieval and editing body camera videos prompted him to halt the use of the cameras on Friday.The new pol
  
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• Hartford Police Arrest City Man In New Year's Day Homicide - Hartford Courant

  04-01-2016 19:45 via
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  Hartford Police Arrest City Man In New Year's Day Homicide
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  HARTFORD — Three days after the city's first homicide of the year, police have charged a local man with murder. Tequile Walwyn, 19, of Pershing Street, turned himself in at police headquarters late Monday morning after he learned that there was a ...and more »
  

• Crowd protests fatal police shooting in Dearborn - The Detroit News

  04-01-2016 19:18 via
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  Crowd protests fatal police shooting in Dearborn
  The Detroit News
  Valarie Johnson, mother of Kevin Matthews, speaks with family members to the media before a march on Michigan Avenue in Dearbron, Mich. on Jan. 4, 2016. People march and protest the shooting of an unarmed man, Kevin Matthews, by a Dearborn police ...and more »
  

• Police Arrest Bryan Silva in JPA Standoff - The Charlottesville Newsplex

  04-01-2016 19:11 via
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  Police Arrest Bryan Silva in JPA Standoff
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  CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (NEWSPLEX) -- The Charlottesville Police Department has confirmed that 25-year-old Bryan Silva has been arrested, after a standoff that happened Sunday at a home on the 2500 block of Jefferson Park Avenue. Silva has been ...
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• Man accused of trying to break into police barracks to take evidence - WMUR Manchester

  04-01-2016 18:52 via
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  Man accused of trying to break into police barracks to take evidence
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  Three Franklin residents are facing charges in connection with an attempted break-in at a state police barracks. Related. High school seniors nominated for... Former president Clinton hits NH... Sanders on Clinton: 'Too late for... Christie talks unity ...and more »
  

• Denver police ID driver suspected in double fatal, 4-vehicle crash - The Denver Post

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  Denver police ID driver suspected in double fatal, 4-vehicle crash
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  Denver police have identified the 55-year-old man they suspect triggered a four-vehicle crash Sunday that left two people dead and others seriously injured. Semere Dawit is suspected of vehicular homicide in the case. Police spokeswoman Christine Downs ...and more »
  

• JPD chief says police chases into Jackson need to stop - WAPT Jackson

  04-01-2016 18:14 via
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  JPD chief says police chases into Jackson need to stop
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  JPD Chief Lee Vance speaks to the Jackson City Council during a meeting in April. Photos. JPD Chief Lee Vance speaks to the Jackson City Council during a meeting in April. JACKSON, Miss. —Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance said he disagrees with City ...
  Mississippi councilman says throw rocks at police chasing petty crooks in JacksonCNN
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• DA commends police for $2 million drug bust - The Evening Sun

  04-01-2016 17:39 via
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  DA commends police for $2 million drug bust
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  Additional details regarding a Dec. 29 drug bust in York County were released at a press conference Monday. Loading… Post to Facebook. DA commends police for $2 million drug bust Additional details regarding a Dec. 29 drug bust in York County were ...and more »
  

• Raleigh man accused of shooting Winston-Salem police officer - WRAL.com

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  Raleigh man accused of shooting Winston-Salem police officer
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  Winston-Salem, N.C. — A Raleigh man was hospitalized Monday after, police say, he shot a Winston-Salem police officer while fleeing a traffic stop and was wounded with his own gun. A spokesman for the Winston-Salem Police Department said Officer ...
  Winston-Salem police officer, suspect shot after traffic stopWXII The Triadall 141 news articles »
  

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