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• Video: FL Restaurant Manager Helps Deputies Subdue Violent Customer

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  VIDEO: FL Restaurant Manager Helps Deputies Subdue Violent CustomerThe Hillsborough County (FL) Sheriff's Office is praising the actions of a manager at a local Hooters restaurant for jumping in to help two deputies who were attacked by an unruly customer.The incident started after restaurant staff refused to serve 23-year-old Ashton Toney alcohol."You can see by the video how quickly it became violent," Larry McKinnon, spokesperson for the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, told WFTS TV.McKi
  
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• Portland to Require Officers to Give Statement on Deadly Force Incidents within 48 Hours

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  The Portland City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Wednesday that makes clear they won’t follow the legal advice of the Multnomah County district attorney and the Oregon Department of Justice when it comes to investigating police officers’ use of force.Commissioners unanimously voted to require Portland officers who use deadly force to give a statement to internal affairs investigators within 48 hours of the event.“We are not picking a fight with the distr
  
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• OR Sheriff Removes Thin Blue Line Flag from Courthouse Breakroom

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  After white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, displayed the Thin Blue Line flag, Multnomah County (OR) Sheriff Mike Reese announced a similar flag had been removed from a break room in the Multnomah County Courthouse."Thin Blue Line" flag is used to show support for law enforcement and honor officers killed in the line of duty. But some say it's been co-opted by the white nationalist movement and shows disrespect to people of color, the Oregonian reports. The
  
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• IL Police Department Tells People to Stop Bringing War Souvenir Munitions to Station for Disposal

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  An “elderly gentleman” carried a battered brown box littered with antiquated ammunition—including a World War II-era anti-tank round—into a police department Tuesday about 100 miles west of Chicago, giving the front desk clerk quite a scare.Reached by telephone by NBC Chicago, Dixon, IL, police Lt. Clay Whelan said the man had an affiliation with a nearby gun range and brought the old ordinance to police to dispose of.The explosives and bullets were then taken to a nearby
  
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• Black Lives Matter Group Protests at Home of Philly Officer Involved in Fatal Shooting

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  A small group of Black Lives Matter activists protested on Thursday outside the home of Ryan Pownall, a Philadelphia police officer involved in the fatal shooting of  David Jones in June.The rally, which attracted a heavy police presence and pushback from some neighbors, was the latest demonstration led by Isaac Gardner of the Coalition for Justice for David Jones and Asa Khalif of Black Lives Matter Pennsylvania. In recent weeks, Khalif and Gardner h
  
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• Armed Philadelphia Antifa Group Formed to Target Police

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  An armed Antifa group is launching a new cell in Philadelphia that is targeting law enforcement.The group currently hosts anti-police workshops called “Our Enemies in Blue.” The group draws inspiration from convicted murderers and calls for violence against the police, theft of goods, and armed insurrection.Antifa websites like It’s Going Down, Sub.Media and Insurrection News have been promoting the group, which calls itself the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM).Ta
  
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• Video: Fiancée of Slain Ohio Officer Upset at NFL's Browns for Anti-Police Anthem Protest

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  VIDEO: Fiancée of Slain Ohio Officer Upset at NFL's Browns for Anti-Police Anthem Protest It's been nearly three years since police officer Justin Winebrenner died during a shooting at an Akron bar.Winebrenner, 32, was off-duty and tried to defuse the situation when an angry customer returned with a gun. The seven-year veteran of the Akron Police Department was shot twice while protecting others. Four more people were hurt during the shooting.Winebrenner was a Cleveland Browns season
  
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• Video: Grand Jury Clears Texas Officer in Fatal Shooting of Driver Who Ran Over Fellow Officer Twice

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  VIDEO: Grand Jury Clears Texas Officer in Fatal Shooting of Driver Who Ran Over Fellow Officer Twice A Tarrant County, TX, grand jury has declined to indict an Arlington police officer in the shooting death of a man during a traffic stop in February.Tavis Crane, 23, who had warrants for his arrest, refused multiple times on Feb. 1 to get out of his vehicle when asked to do so by Cpl. Elise Bowden before twice running over her. A backup officer, Craig Roper, who was partially in the car before it
  
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• Dallas Police Use Tourniquet to Save Shooting Victim While K-9 Takes Down Suspect

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  Dallas officers helped save a shooting victim's life with a tourniquet early Friday while a police dog nabbed one of the men suspected of shooting him, police said.About 2 a.m., officers in Old East Dallas heard a gunshot in the 4700 block of Capitol Avenue and found a man with a leg injury.The first officers to arrive at the scene used a tourniquet to help the victim before he was taken to Baylor University Medical Center. He was reportedly in stable condition as of Fri
  
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• 5.11 Donating Proceeds of Defender-Flex Pants and Jeans to Charities

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  As an extension of the 5.11 Always Be Ready brand campaign, throughout the months of September and October, 5.11 will be donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of its recently launched Defender-Flex Pants and Jeans to the Sheepdog Survival Fund, Navy SEAL Foundation, and National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Each of the charities is supported by 5.11 brand ambassadors Tim Kennedy, Andy Stumpf, and Jolie Macias Gentry (consecutively) and gives back to those who selflessly ser
  
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