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• Officer Narrowly Survived Deadly Philadelphia Shooting Spree as 2 Officers Hurt

  19-09-2016 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The shots rained into the patrol car one after the other, striking a sergeant multiple times in the arm, lodging in her ballistic vest, and ricocheting off her own weapon, reports NBC News.In total, 18 shots were fired at close-range at Sgt. Sylvia Young from a 9mm Luger, marking the beginning of a chaotic night in Philadelphia that would ultimately leave her, another officer, and three civilians injured; a 25-year-old woman dead; and the suspect killed amid a foot chase, officials said.Young ra
  
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• John Ashcroft Appointed Chairman of National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund

  19-09-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF), a nonprofit organization established in 1984 to tell the story of American law enforcement, promote officer safety, and honor those who serve and sacrifice.Mr. Ashcroft, who will be serving in a voluntary capacity as Chairman, has been a longtime supporter of the Memorial Fund, having assisted the organization for the past decade in its
  
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• NY Bombing Suspect Captured After Shootout, Officer Wounded

  19-09-2016 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The man believed to be responsible for the explosion in Manhattan on Saturday night and an earlier bombing in New Jersey, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was taken into custody on Monday after he was wounded in a gun battle with police, according to law enforcement officials.The dramatic shootout on a rain soaked street in Linden, NJ, came after the police issued a cellphone alert to millions of residents in the area telling them to be on the lookout for the suspect, who was described as "armed and dangerous
  
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• Manhunt Underway for Suspect in NY, NJ Bombings

  19-09-2016 13:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Authorities released a photo Monday of a man being sought in connection with the bombing in Manhattan that injured 29 people over the weekend.The FBI released a wanted poster for Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Afghan descent. His last known address is listed in Elizabeth, N.J., and the poster warns that Rahami "should be considered armed and dangerous," USA Today reports.Federal authorities were conducting a raid on Rahami’s apartment above a
  
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• Federal Agent Honor Guard Told to Disarm at Charlotte Arena

  19-09-2016 13:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Outraged Professional Bull Riders chief Sean Gleason came within a minute of canceling an event when the managers of The Spectrum Center in Charlotte, NC, refused to allow a U.S. Customs and Border Protection honor guard to enter their building on Friday night.Uniformed agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, were supposed to serve as honor guard and display the American flag during the national anthem.A still-seething Gleason, chi
  
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• Video: Detroit Officer Dies of Medical Complications from Shotgun Wound

  19-09-2016 12:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Detroit Officer Dies of Medical Complications from Shotgun WoundAn officer who was shot Monday night at a gas station on the city's east side has died, Detroit police said.Kenneth Steil, a sergeant from the Detroit Police Department's 9th Precinct, was pursuing a shooting suspect when the shots were fired at the Sunoco gas station at 7 Mile Road and Hayes Street. The suspect was armed with a sawed-off shotgun.Steil was struck in the shoulder and taken to St. John Hospital. He was supposed
  
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• Video: 5 People Taken into Custody, Questioned About New York City Bombing

  19-09-2016 12:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: 5 People Taken into Custody, Questioned About New York City Bombing Sunday night the FBI questioned five people who were taken into custody in connection with Saturday's bombing in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.At 8:45 p.m. Sunday the FBI and NYPD conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle of interest in the investigation into the bombing.The men were in a car stopped on the Belt Parkway. They were headed from Staten Island to Brooklyn on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.Five people in
  
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• Illinois Officer Dies of Heart Attack on Training Run

  19-09-2016 12:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Cook County (IL) sheriff’s officer from Crest Hill has died as a result of heart problems after collapsing during a run at the department’s training academy in Maywood, where he was an instructor, authorities said.Officer Jason Gallero, 45, collapsed Thursday morning while participating in a run with the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Training Academy and was pronounced dead at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s off
  
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• Five IEDs Found Near NJ Train Station

  19-09-2016 12:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An explosive device detonated during a police attempt to disarm it in Elizabeth, New Jersey early Monday, in the third New York City area incident involving what appear to be improvised bombs.A call came into Elizabeth authorities at 8:47 p.m. after two men found a suspicious backpack in a garbage can, mayor Chris Bollwage said in a press conference. The men took it around the corner thinking there was something of value in it, but notified police when they saw wires and a pipe inside the bag. P
  
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