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• Video: 20 Arrested in California After Anti-Trump Protest Turns Violent

  29-04-2016 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: 20 Arrested in California After Anti-Trump Protest Turns ViolentTwenty people were arrested outside a Donald Trump rally in Costa Mesa, CA, Thursday night as a protest turned violent and property was damaged, including police vehicles.The Orange County Sheriff's Department said there were nearly 200 officers and deputies outside the Orange County Fairgrounds, as protesters mixed with Trump supporters leaving a rally held by the GOP candidate.The protesters, many waving Mexican flags, were
  
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• First Tactical Introduces Crosshatch Sling Pack

  29-04-2016 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  First Tactical's Crosshatch Sling Pack is designed to be ergonomic and comfortable for balanced left or right cross-body carrying. It is constructed with 1,000-denier tough nylon, repositionable compression straps, and hook/loop interior organization.The main compartment opens to a single mesh pocket and two interior drop pockets with a hook/loop cinch. Hook and loop organization plus repositionable/replaceable compressions straps allow the Sling to be customized to your specifications.A back CC
  
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• Video: Florida Man Gets Death Penalty for Killing Sergeant

  29-04-2016 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Florida Man Gets Death Penalty for Killing SergeantConvicted cop killer Eriese Tisdale, 28, was sentenced to death Friday morning by a Florida Circuit Court Judge.Tisdale killed St. Lucie County Sheriff's Sgt. Gary Morales during a traffic stop in Fort Pierce on Feb. 28, 2013. He fired seven times at Morales, striking the veteran sergeant in the head, neck and arm, TC Palm reports.
  Morales, 35, was found dead inside his patrol car. He was belted to his seat and never fired his weapon.&nbs
  
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• Video: California Officers Ambushed in Unmarked Vehicle, Suspect Wounded in Gunfight

  29-04-2016 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: California Officers Ambushed in Unmarked Vehicle, Suspect Wounded in GunfightIn what police are calling an ambush attack, gunfire disabled a police vehicle in San Bernardino Thursday night, but the officers were unhurt and returned fire, police said.Officers estimated that about 10 shots were fired at them at about 8:45 p.m. near the Terrace Motel along Foothill Boulevard near Meridian Avenue, near the city’s border with Rialto.The officers were in an unmarked vehicle in an alley, L
  
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• Spokane Police Training Bloodhound to Find Lost Children

  29-04-2016 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 14-month-old bloodhound named Daisy is the newest member of the Spokane (WA) Police Department’s K9 unit.She was brought on specifically to track missing children and vulnerable adults with her handler, Sgt. Jason Reynolds, who supervises the unit. “This doesn’t replace any of our patrol dogs. It supplements them,” Reynolds told the Spokesman-Review.Daisy is a rescue who came to the department by way of California one week ago. As an American-born dog, she’ll be o
  
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• Some Dallas Officers to be Issued Less-Lethal Launchers and Sponge Rounds

  29-04-2016 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some Dallas police officers will soon be toting “sponge guns,” weapons aimed at reducing the chances of a deadly officer-involved shooting.Police booster group Safer Dallas Better Dallas announced Thursday that it plans to raise $250,000 to help pay for more than 100 launchers that shoot sponge rounds. The less-lethal weapons are meant to disarm and incapacitate someone from up to 100 feet away, police officials told the Dallas Morning News.Being hit with one of the sponge-tipped bul
  
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• Obama Wants Law Enforcement to Use "Smart Guns"

  29-04-2016 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The White House issued a set of recommendations Friday aimed at making it easier for federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to purchase “smart guns” that only operate for certain users.Under the measures, the government would define requirements that gun makers need to meet for police to consider purchasing. The White House said that local governments could apply for grants for guns equipped with the technology.Though a German company called Armatix tried to introduce a sm
  
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• Florida Activists Call for Investigation of Deputies Over Death of 3 Teen Suspects in Pond Crash

  29-04-2016 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A coalition of activists called Thursday for an outside investigation of the events leading up to the deaths last month of three teenage girls who drowned while fleeing from Pinellas, FL, sheriff's deputies.The Bay Area Dream Defenders believe the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office was negligent in its actions and "misreported" how Dominique Battle, 16, and 15-year-olds Ashaunti Butler and LaNiya Miller died March 31, when the stolen car they were riding in plunged into a pond, The Tampa Bay Times
  
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• California Judge Criticizes Long Beach Police for Sting Operations Targeting Gay Cruising

  29-04-2016 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Los Angeles County judge on Friday strongly criticized the Long Beach Police Department's practice of conducting sting operations against gay men cruising for companionship, saying the policy was "indicative of animus toward homosexuals."In a closely watched case, Superior Court Judge Halim Dhanidina made the remarks in Long Beach while invalidating the arrest of Rory Moroney for lewd conduct and indecent exposure, the Los Angeles Times reports.Moroney was arrested in a bathroom at R
  
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• Bratton Advises New Yorkers on How to Not Get Shot by Police

  29-04-2016 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has some simple advice for New Yorkers – if you don’t want to get shot by cops, don’t point a gun at them.“The best way to not get shot by a New York City police officer is not carry a gun and not raise that gun toward them,” Bratton said at a news conference Monday.His comments came in reaction to a question about George Tillman, 32, who was killed on April 17 when an NYPD sergeant and three cops fired 13 shots at him, hit
  
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• Oregon Officer Shot After Car Crash

  29-04-2016 02:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Gresham, OR, crash scene evolved into a shooting that left an officer and a suspect wounded Wednesday night. Both are expected to recover from being shot, reports the Oregonian.Around 11:00 p.m., a man driving a silver GMC Envoy crashed into a black wrought-iron fence near a apartment complex entrance.The driver ran, police said, and a pair of officers assigned to an East Metro Gang Enforcement team were the first to respond, Gresham police said in an early morning news release. They found the
  
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• Jury Convicts Ex-Oklahoma Reserve Deputy in Suspect's Death

  29-04-2016 02:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A former Oklahoma volunteer sheriff's deputy who said he mistook his handgun for his stun gun when he fatally shot an unarmed suspect last year was convicted of second-degree manslaughter on Wednesday, reports the Associated Press.Jurors handed down the verdict in the case of 74-year-old Robert Bates, a wealthy insurance executive accused of fatally shooting Eric Harris while working with Tulsa County sheriff's deputies last year during an illegal gun sales sting. Harris, who had run from deputi
  
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• Willie Williams, LAPD’s First Black Police Chief, Dies at 72

  29-04-2016 02:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Willie Williams, who became Los Angeles’ first African American police chief in the aftermath of the 1992 riots, has died. He was 72.His death was confirmed Wednesday by the Los Angeles Police Department, reports the Los Angeles Times.Williams stepped into the top job at the LAPD at a sensitive time, as the department reeled from criticism over its handling of the riots and Los Angeles struggled to mend racial divides. He replaced Daryl Gates, who had long been criticized for running a dep
  
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• Video: Suspect Who Threatened to Blow Up Baltimore TV Station in Custody

  29-04-2016 02:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Suspect Who Threatened to Blow Up Baltimore TV Station in CustodyA 25-year-old man who threatened to blow up a Baltimore Fox TV station Thursday and then was shot by police did not have a bomb, but a device that was chocolate bars held together by wires, according to the Baltimore Police Department.The suspect had refused to cooperate with officers, police spokesman T.J. Smith said. When he walked out of the building, he was wearing a white panda suit, a surgical mask and sunglasses befor
  
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• Video: San Bernardino Shooter’s Brother, 2 Others Arrested by FBI

  29-04-2016 02:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: San Bernardino Shooter’s Brother, 2 Others Arrested by FBIThree people connected to San Bernardino, CA, mass shooting gunman Syed Rizwan Farook, including his older brother, were arrested on charges of federal conspiracy, marriage fraud, federal authorities announced Thursday morning, reports KTLA.Syed Raheel Farook, the brother of Syed Rizwan Farook; his wife, Tatiana Farook; and her sister Mariya Chernykh were arrested and charged in a grand jury's five-county indictment related t
  
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• Virginia Deputy Shot in Head, Suspect Charged

  29-04-2016 00:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Authorities say a suspect has been charged after a Virginia deputy was shot in the head in Pittsylvania County.They say the suspect, Brian Cundiff, 37, surrendered himself shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday, reports WSET.The Pittsylvania County (VA) Sheriff's Office received a "domestic" related call from a family member at a house on Keeling Dr. around 6:30 Tuesday night, officials say. They say the first responding deputies were met with gunfire, which struck one deputy. The deputy suffered a non-
  
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• Baltimore Officer Shoots Teen Holding Replica Handgun

  29-04-2016 00:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Baltimore police officer shot a teen who was carrying a fake handgun Wednesday afternoon following a brief foot chase near Aisquith Street and East Baltimore Street, authorities said. The teen's injuries aren't considered life-threatening, reports Yahoo.Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said two plainclothes detectives assigned to the department's intelligence section had been driving down the street in an unmarked police car when they spotted the young person with what looked like a B
  
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