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Video: Phoenix Officer Fighting Incurable Diseases, Needs Lifelong Treatment

26-03-2016 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com

VIDEO: Phoenix Officer Fighting Incurable Diseases, Needs Lifelong TreatmentA 15-year veteran of the Phoenix police force is in desperate need of help.“I will do anything to have him with us,” Debbie Denham, Officer Benjamin Denham's wife, told ABC 15. For the last five years, Officer Denham has lived with an invisible disease. It's an autoimmune disease called systemic sclerosis, which is a rare form of scleroderma.It is incurable and it essentially attacks a person's internal

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Video: Fresno Chief Uses Officers' Body Camera Videos to Defend Controversial Shooting

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VIDEO: Fresno Chief Uses Officers' Body Camera Videos to Defend Controversial ShootingBody-worn camera footage released Thursday by the Fresno Police Department shows officers shooting 40-year-old Freddy Centeno in September after the man drew a black hose nozzle from his pocket. Centeno, a reportedly mentally disabled man, died nearly a month later, and his family has filed a lawsuit against the Fresno PD and the officers involved.Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer walked reporters through the vide

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Asset Forfeiture Buys 2,000 Trauma Kits for Colorado Officers

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In the coming months, 2,000 police officers around the state of Colorado will receive individual first-aid kits (IFAK), Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman announced Thursday.Coffman said the kits, which cost about $60 each, are being paid for using money from an asset forfeiture fund, the Aurora Sentinel reports. She said she hopes to make the program an ongoing effort so more officers around the state will have access to the trauma kits.
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2 Iowa Officers Killed by Wrong-Way Driver on I-80

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Two Des Moines Police officers were killed in the line of duty early Saturday morning while transporting a prisoner when their vehicle was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver. The prisoner and the driver of the second vehicle involved were also killed.The crash happened on Interstate 80 near the Waukee exit at mile marker 117 around 12:40 a.m.The crash is being investigated by the Iowa State Patrol. Des Moines Police say the names of those killed in this crash are being withheld pending n

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Video: Thousands Attend Memorial for Fallen Maryland Officer

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VIDEO: Thousands Attend Memorial for Fallen Maryland OfficerPrince George's (MD) County Police Officer Jacai Colson was laid to rest Friday as thousands gathered to honor the officer killed in the line of duty.Fellow law enforcement officers from around the region gathered Friday morning as Colson's casket arrived at the church where he was remembered.Officer Colson's viewing and funeral took place at the First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Upper Marlboro.Colson was reportedly killed in a "blue

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