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• Ballistic Armored Tactical Transport

  11-05-2017 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Armored Group's new BATT-APX is an armored rescue vehicle (ARV) built for law enforcement agencies. Designed and engineered in Detroit, the BATT-APX is fully modular and can be built on a variety of chassis. It features proven and independently verified .50 caliber armor protection and offers capabilities including adjustable hydraulic ram, gas injection devices, thermal cameras, winches, turret protection, and more. The platform can also be adjusted for EOD, Medevac, and Border Patrol teams
  
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• Bangladesh Police Go After UN Official. The Issue: A Used Car. - New York Times

  11-05-2017 23:23 via nytimes.com
  Bangladesh Police Go After UN Official. The Issue: A Used Car.
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  DHAKA, Bangladesh — The sale of a used car is developing into an unusual criminal case and a potential diplomatic sore point between the United Nations and Bangladesh, whose government has frequently bristled at criticism from the international ...
  
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• Forest Lake police unanimously approve labor agreement - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  11-05-2017 22:15 via startribune.com
  
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  Forest Lake police unanimously approve labor agreement
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  If the Forest Lake City Council approves the agreement, the county won't take over. By Miguel Otárola Star Tribune. May 11, 2017 — 10:18pm. itemprop. Kevin Giles, Star Tribune On Tuesday night, Forest Lake residents packed the Washington County Board ...and more »
  
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• Video: Suspect in Stolen Flatbed Truck Leads MN Officers on Highway Pursuit

  11-05-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Suspect in Stolen Flatbed Truck Leads MN Officers on Highway PursuitA man, who allegedly stole a truck, led officers from several Minnesota law enforcement agencies on a nearly 40-minute chase through the Twin Cities metro area Wednesday afternoon.The Minnesota State Patrol reports it received a report of a stolen tow truck. An unmarked trooper located the flatbed truck on westbound Hwy. 10 at 1:40 p.m. and called for backup.Additional squads arrived and attempted to stop the driver,
  
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• Video: Seattle Officers Now Must Refer to "Suspects" as "Community Members"

  11-05-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Seattle Officers Now Must Refer to "Suspects" as "Community Members"When Seattle police officers write use of force reports they no longer call a suspect a suspect.“Community member” is the new term. Several officers say the term is offensive, explaining their work with violent suspects.Sources point to the suspect who shot three officers last month after a downtown Seattle armed robbery. When officers involved in that incident were writing their use of force reports they were
  
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• Suspect Steals Patrol Vehicle, Leads MA Officers on Pursuit, Police Say

  11-05-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hanson, MA, police said that a man who led them on a chase overnight was able to get into an officer's cruiser and prolong his crime spree.The series of events began at 1 a.m. Thursday when officers said they saw a 2010 Chevy Malibu speeding and failing to stop at a stop sign. The driver, identified as Daniel Egan, refused to pull over and a pursuit ensued, WCVB TV reports.The Malibu's tires were punctured and Egan brought it to a stop and fled into the woods, police say."Officers attempted to t
  
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• Ohio Police Say Half-Naked Man Crashed Car into Closed Store to Get Beer

  11-05-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Police in suburban Cleveland say a half-naked man intentionally crashed his car into a closed convenience store to get beer, injuring himself and a store employee.Rocky River, OH, police say the 45-year-old driver was wearing nothing from the waist down when he crashed through a store wall early Sunday and told the worker he needed beer.Police say the man barricaded himself in a beer cooler and told police to shoot him, but they subdued him with a stun device, Cincinnati.com reports. 
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• Ohio Officer's Actions Found Unreasonable in Kicking of Handcuffed Suspect

  11-05-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Columbus, OH, deputy chief has found the actions of an officer shown on video kicking a restrained man as unreasonable, according to a statement released Wednesday afternoon.Witnesses to the April 8 incident posted a video on YouTube of Demarko Anderson, 26 lying on his chest on a concrete driveway. Anderson appears to be restrained by Officer Darren Stephens with his hands behind his back when Officer Zachary Rosen darts in and strikes him once in the head with his left foot.Officers were res
  
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• MN Town's Leaders Vote to Disband Police, Then Reach Agreement to Keep Officers on Job

  11-05-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Forest Lake (MN) Police officers have unanimously voted to accept a new labor deal with the city, leaving just one more hurdle to clear before the community can begin to leave an acrimonious chapter behind.  Members of both the patrol and sergeant's unions accepted the terms of the deal, which lasts 3 years, includes two and three percent pay raises, and allows the force to maintain its health care benefits for both active and retired officers.The dramatic turnaround in this story arc comes
  
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• Black Lives Matter Activist Sues LAPD for $4 Million

  11-05-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Black Lives Matter activist Greg Akili was part of a group of people who were tossed out of a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting on Feb. 9, 2016 for shouting at commissioners. Akili was told to shut up or get out. He didn't quiet down, so two officers escorted him outside. Commission executive director Richard Tefank followed and, according to Akili, ordered his arrest after he had been released.Akili was charged with battery on a police officer.The cit
  
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• Arkansas Deputy Killed at Traffic Stop, Suspect in Custody After Standoff with State Police

  11-05-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arkansas State Police confirm three people, including a Yell County Sheriff's Deputy, were killed Thursday by a suspect. The suspectis in custody after being in a standoff with the state police Thursday afternoon.The fallen deputy has been identified as Lt. Kevin Mainhart, who is a retired captain with the West Memphis Police and now serving the Yell County Sheriff's Department, KATV reports.ASP Spokesman Bill Sadler said at approximately 7:18 Thursday morning, a deputy was responding to a domes
  
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• Reminder: Fly Flags at Half-Staff on May 15, National Peace Officers Memorial Day

  11-05-2017 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Federal law requires American flags to be flown at half-staff on Memorial Day (last Monday in May) and May 15, National Peace Officers Memorial Day. This tribute to American law enforcement officers is part of the historic crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. At the request of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Public Law 103-322 designates Peace Officers Memorial Day as one of only two days each year during which government agencies, businesses, and
  
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• Video: 17-Year-Old Helped Save Life of Officer Injured in Crash

  11-05-2017 02:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: 17-Year-Old Helped Save Life of Officer Injured in CrashHigh school senior Thalia Rodriguez was driving down Interstate 75 on Sunday morning on her way to do a ridealong at a Hialeah, FL, fire station when she saw a man bleeding along the roadside next to a crashed motorcycle. Her quick thinking saved the severely injured off-duty officer's life.The 17-year-old Westland Hialeah Senior High student pulled over and jumped out of the car. As she rushed over to the man, Rodriguez's first resp
  
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• OH Deputy Shot, Suspect Dies in Shootout at Domestic

  11-05-2017 02:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Seneca County, OH, sheriff's deputy was shot in the shoulder during a domestic violence incident Tuesday south of Tiffin, reports WTVG.Seneca County Sheriff William Eckelberry said Deputy Luke Cantu was struck in the shoulder by at least one bullet. The sheriff said the bullet went through and through. He added the deputy is in stable condition.Another man, Johnny Reino, 25, was stabbed. His condition was unknown.The shooter, Scott Bloomfield, 34, was shot and killed by authorities on the scen
  
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• Video: Dallas Police Union Tells Mayor He's Not Welcome at Memorial Ceremony

  11-05-2017 02:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Dallas Police Union Tells Mayor He's Not Welcome at Memorial CeremonyThe Dallas police officers murdered in the deadly 2016 downtown ambush will be honored at next week's Police Memorial Day ceremony, but one of the city's largest police organizations on Tuesday told the mayor he's not welcome, reports Fox News.The Dallas Fraternal Order of Police released a letter Tuesday telling Mayor Mike Rawlings they don't want him to show up.In the letter, FOP President Michael Walton wrote, "Mr. Ra
  
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• Video: Shirtless Man Drives Away in TX Officer's SUV

  11-05-2017 01:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Shirtless Man Drives Away in TX Officer's SUVIt is believed a shirtless man tried to break into a store, but instead drove off with a Harris County (TX) Precinct 6 SUV.In the video from the store, you can see the shirtless suspect, identified by investigators as Brandon Ramiro Cantu, walk to the door of the police SUV, get in and sit for about 15 to 20 seconds before he calmly backs out of the parking lot, and drives off, reports KTRK.The deputy constable apparently left the car running a
  
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• Video: KS PD Will Now Chase Everyone Who Flees With Probable Cause

  11-05-2017 01:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: KS PD Will Now Chase Everyone Who Flees With Probable CauseThe Kansas City (KS) Police Department announced a new crime initiative Tuesday aimed at decreasing crimes the police chief says are skyrocketing. Now instead of only chasing suspects that had already committed a serious felony, they will chase everyone who flees police as long as they have probable cause, reports KCTV.In 2014, after two innocent people were killed in separate crashes, Kansas City, KS, police chose not to chase cr
  
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• 2 OR Officers 'Seriously Assaulted' Attempting to Release Man from Jail

  11-05-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two officers were "seriously assaulted" Monday in an altercation with a man they were trying to release from the Florence, OR, jail, and the man who assaulted them later died at a hospital, an official said.Lt. Cari Boyd, an Oregon State Police spokeswoman, said troopers and other officers were called to the jail around 9 a.m. and found two officers had been assaulted while trying to release the 40-year-old man from custody, reports the Oregonian.He "became non-responsive" as medics arrived to t
  
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