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• Video: 2 Miami-Dade Officers Recovering After Monday Night Ambush

  28-03-2017 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: 2 Miami-Dade Officers Recovering After Monday Night AmbushTwo undercover police officers conducting surveillance outside an apartment complex in northwest Miami-Dade were shot Monday night in an "ambush-style attack." The officers are reportedly recovering from their wounds.Miami-Dade police said the two officers were investigating gang activity in the area as part of a multi-agency task force. The detectives were in an unmarked police vehicle when, according to officials, several suspect
  
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• Attorneys for BLM Activist Try to Get Officer’s Lawsuit Dismissed

  28-03-2017 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesAn attorney for Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson urged a federal judge Monday to dismiss a lawsuit by an unnamed Baton Rouge police officer who claims he was injured during a protest four days after the deadly police shooting of Alton Sterling in the city.A lawyer for the officer, however, asked Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson to allow the suit to move forward and for the officer who filed it to remain anonymous for health and safety reasons.Jackson took
  
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• France Investigating Police Killing of Chinese Man in Paris - New York Times

  28-03-2017 18:39 via nytimes.com
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  France Investigating Police Killing of Chinese Man in Paris
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  Protesters placed candles to spell the word “violence” during a demonstration on Monday against the fatal shooting of a Chinese man by the police. His lawyer said the shooting was unjustified. Credit Sonia Bakaric/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.
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• MS Deputy Shot in Leg, Suspect Dead

  28-03-2017 02:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Lowndes County, MS, deputy has been wounded and a suspect is dead following a chase that ended with a shooting on Highway 82 on the east side of Columbus, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.Deputy Kevin Forrester was shot in the leg, but the injury is not believed to be life-threatening. He is in stable condition, reports WTVA.The suspect is identified as Pryor Spencer Bailey, IV, 45, of Starkville.MBI spokesman Warren Strain says at 10:07 a.m. Monday, the Webster County (MS)
  
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• Suspect Killed in Shootout with California LEOs, Officer Saved by Vest

  28-03-2017 01:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A suspect was killed late Sunday night after a shootout with officers from the Anderson (CA) Police Department. One officer was shot but the bullet was stopped by his bulletproof vest.It happened just before 10 p.m. at the Motel 6 on McMurry Drive near Balls Ferry Road and I-5. Officials say three officers and one sergeant with the Anderson Police Department were investigating a possible stolen vehicle in the area.During the investigation, officials said the officers exchanged gunfire with the s
  
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• Portland Chief Accused of Having Lieutenant Falsify His Training Log

  28-03-2017 00:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Portland, OR, Police Chief Mike Marshman and his executive assistant stems are being investigated over police bureau training, where his lieutenant may have signed the chief in on a log suggesting he had attended, when he had not, sources familiar with the inquiry told the Oregonian.Marshman declined to say what led to the investigation. He said he would let the process run its course.He and his executive assistant Lt. Mike Leasure were placed on paid administrative leave late Friday as the
  
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• Nebraska Tribal Officer Dies in Vehicle Crash

  28-03-2017 00:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sergeant Curtis Blackbird of the Omaha Nation Law Enforcement Services was killed in a patrol vehicle crash Sunday while responding to a call for service.The accident happened near Walthill, NE, when Blackbird was driving in dense fog and his car struck a crane in a construction zone, the Officer Down Memorial Page reports. 
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• Alaska State Trooper's K-9 Shot, Killed After Vehicle Pursuit

  28-03-2017 00:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Wasilla, AK, man was shot and killed by troopers early Sunday after he led police on a high-speed chase and opened fire on a police dog, killing the animal, Alaska State Troopers said.At 2:50 a.m. Sunday, troopers tried to make a traffic stop on a Subaru Legacy in Wasilla, according to a dispatch posted online.The driver sped away, leading officers on a 45-minute chase that ended when troopers disabled the vehicle with spike strips, the Anchorage Daily News reports."The driver of the
  
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• Louisiana Officer Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Shooting of Boy

  28-03-2017 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An Avoyelles Parish, LA, jury convicted a former Marksville deputy marshal of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter Friday in a shooting at the end of a chase that left a 6-year-old boy dead and the boy's father seriously wounded.Derrick Stafford, a 33-year-old former Marksville police officer and part-time city marshal, left the courthouse in shackles after the jury returned to the courtroom to announce their verdict by a 10-2 vote following nearly three hours of deliberation, the Advocate re
  
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• California Highway Patrol Officer Shot on I-5

  28-03-2017 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A California Highway Patrol officer involved in a fatal shooting late Friday night has been released from an area hospital after being shot in the thigh during a traffic stop on Interstate 5 north of Red Bluff.The officer was shot during an exchange of gunfire after he pulled over a vehicle just before midnight on I-5 near the Hooker Creek Road interchange, according to the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office, which has taken over an investigation into the shooting.The officer stopped a white H
  
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