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• Off-Duty Campus Police Officer Shot in Atlanta Robbery Attempt

  31-07-2017 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Police are searching for two people after an off-duty Georgia State University police officer was shot Sunday night during an attempted armed robbery in southwest Atlanta. Officer LaToya Denise Crook, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, was walking with her friend in the 1400 block of Donnelly Avenue when two men came up to them and tried to rob them about 9:30 p.m., authorities said. “At some point, one of the males told them to give it up,” Atlanta po
  
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• NY Officer Shot and Wounded at Domestic, Suspect Killed

  31-07-2017 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Glenville, NY, police officer was wounded and a suspect was killed when police responded to a domestic violence call Friday night.The Glenville officer was shot in the abdomen under his ballistic vest. A Med Flight helicopter crew transported the officer to Albany Medical Center where he underwent surgery and is listed in stable condition. The officer is expected to make a full recovery.Police have not released the name of the injured officer.The suspect was killed by police fire. He has been
  
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• Arpaio Found Guilty of Criminal Contempt of Court

  31-07-2017 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesOn Monday, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton found former Maricopa County, AZ, Sheriff Joe Arpaio guilty of criminal contempt of court, finding that he willfully violated a federal judge's order. Bolton’s ruling follows a five-day June and July trial, in which Department of Justice prosecutors argued that the 85-year-old had intentionally flouted a federal judge's orders halting Arpaio’s signature immigration round-ups.The verdict is a rejection of Arp
  
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• Video: AZ Officers Fatally Shoot Rifle-Wielding Man at Traffic Stop

  31-07-2017 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: AZ Officers Fatally Shoot Rifle-Wielding Man at Traffic StopThe Yavapai County (AZ) Sheriff’s Office has released footage from a deputy’s body-worn video camera of the shooting of a man during a traffic stop on Friday, July 21.Deputy Theresa Kennedy, 52, and Chino Valley Police Officer Jeffrey Pizzi, 43, shot and killed Martin L. Avena, 70, when they stopped his van after his alleged involvement in a domestic violence incident, in which his wife was sent to the hospital.Avena
  
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• 2 CA Officers Shot in Struggle with Suspect

  31-07-2017 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two Los Banos, CA,  police officers were shot this morning during a struggle with a man at an apartment complex, a law enforcement official has confirmed.The man apparently got a hold of one of the officer’s guns and turned it on the officers, the official said.The suspect also was shot, authorities told the Merced Sun-Star.Officers were called to the complex at 6:18 a.m. to investigate a report of a man “who was breaking into an apartment,” Los Banos police said in a brie
  
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