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• Video: “Something Had to be Done,” Says Homeless Man who Helped SC Officer Under Attack

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  VIDEO: “Something Had to be Done,” Says Homeless Man who Helped SC Officer Under AttackA homeless man who Columbia, SC, police are praising for jumping into action to assist an officer in an arrest this week said last week things were “going to get ugly” so something “had to be done.”Cray Turmon was captured on video this week tackling a man who was wrestling with a police officer outside a gas station in Columbia."She's a woman slammed to the ground and she's
  
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• Video: Slain NYPD Officer's Children Given Home by New Yorkers

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  VIDEO: Slain NYPD Officer's Children Given Home by New Yorkers It's been a tough year for three children of an NYPD detective who was murdered in the line of the duty in the Bronx in July.Now, they are preparing for their first holiday without mom Det. Miosotis Familia, who was ambushed by a mentally ill gunman as she sat in a Mobile Command Unit.Twenty-year-old Genesis Villella walks around her new apartment with joy and gratitude, now that she and her 12-year-old twin siblings live in a b
  
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• Video: Ft. Worth Officers Bring Christmas Gifts to Family Victimized by Thieves

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  VIDEO: Ft. Worth Officers Bring Christmas Gifts to Family Victimized by ThievesA mother in North Texas is feeling extra grateful this Christmas after police in Fort Worth replaced gifts for her three sons that were stolen out of her car Friday.Brittney Curry told Fox 4 News she thought the holiday was going to be ruined after a Grinch stole bikes, games, shoes and clothes out of her trunk of her car after it was left in a parking lot for several hours."There was no way we were going to
  
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• Homeland Security Says Attacks on PA Police a Terror Attack

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  The Department of Homeland Security is calling a series of shootings targeting law enforcement in Harrisburg, PA, a "terror attack."Authorities said Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty, 51, was shot and killed by police Friday after he fired several times at law enforcement officers throughout the city, wounding one, CNN reports.Tyler Houlton, acting DHS press secretary, referred to the incident as a terror attack in a statement released Saturday. He said the incident highlights the "Trump administration's
  
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• Graphene Research Could Lead to Foil-Thin Body Armor

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  Embed from Getty ImagesSome scientists believe the combination of two graphene layers could create a lightweight material that can stop bullets.Researchers from the City University of New York’s Advanced Science Research Center discovered that by combining no more than two layers of graphene, they would be able to create an ultra-thin material that, when it is struck by a fast-moving projectile like a bullet, it suddenly hardens and protects the wearer, Morning Ticker reports.Graphene
  
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• Toronto Officers Say Staffing Shortage Puts Them at Risk

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  Several Toronto police officers say they do not feel safe on the job, according to internal emails and exit interviews given to the city's police union by officers leaving the force. "I officially (for the first time in my career) do no feel safe as a police officer, and am tired with the politics of the service and upper management," the email said.The officer wrote that he was the only car on patrol on a Tuesday afternoon earlier this month, with one road sergeant available for
  
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