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• Thorogood Introduces 3 New Built in USA Tactical Boots

  19-01-2018 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thorogood will be introducing a new line of Built in USA tactical boots at SHOT Show 2018.  Thorogood’s Built in USA Veracity GTX features Gore-Tex and Thorogood’s exclusive military-grade Vibram TC4 rubber outsole.Thorogood’s Built in USA Veracity GTX will be on showcase at SHOT Show 2018, booth 20040.For more information about Thorogood footwear, visit www.thorogoodshoes.com.  
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• FN SCAR-SC Now Available to U.S. Law Enforcement Customers

  19-01-2018 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FN America, LLC has announced the release of the FN SCAR-SC carbine, available to U.S. federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. The 5.56x45mm-caliber FN SCAR-SC builds on the FN SCAR heritage with an extremely compact design that’s ideal for special response teams and SWAT. The new FN SCAR-SC will be on display at FN’s booth (#13662) at 2018 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 22–26, 2018.Specifically adapted for mobility and flexibility, the FN SCAR-SC is offered i
  
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• Video: Miami Officer Verbally Abused by Comedian During Arrest

  19-01-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Miami Officer Verbally Abused by Comedian During ArrestWhen a Miami police officer encountered stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress, it was on a Wynwood street corner. But, in footage captured on the officer’s body camera, the dialogue sounded straight out of his stage act.“Hey, whats up?! It’s me, Hannibal Buress,” he told the cop, laughing. “This cop is stupid as f**k. Hey, put this camera on.”But Officer Luis Verne's body camera was already rolling.The
  
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• Video: Family of Slain MO Officer Buys Meal for IL Cops

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  VIDEO: Family of Slain MO Officer Buys Meal for IL CopsThe family of a St. Louis police officer killed in the line of duty recently paid for the meals of fellow police officers in Troy, Illinois.The picture went viral after being posted on Troy Police Department's Facebook page, ABC13 reports.The post showed a dinner receipt for Troy officers being paid for by the family of fallen officer Blake Synder, who was shot and killed in 2016. 
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• Video: CA Officers Rescue Dog Pinned Under Car on Highway

  19-01-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: CA Officers Rescue Dog Pinned Under Car on HighwayA Placer County (CA) Sheriff’s deputy and an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer helped save a dog in a harrowing freeway rescue Wednesday morning.At 8:15, the sheriff’s K-9 handler, Deputy Semenuk, was driving on westbound Highway 80, east of Penryn, when he saw a bloodhound run across the eastbound lanes of traffic, jump over the center divider, and continue to run across westbound lanes of traffic. Commuter traffic ca
  
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• Vegas Concert Shooter had Child Porn on Computer, FBI Investigating Person of Interest

  19-01-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Investigators scanning computers belonging to Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock found “numerous” child pornography photos, the city’s sheriff revealed Friday, adding that the FBI is looking into a person of interest in the case.Sheriff Joe Lombardo, in his first press conference since Oct. 13, 2017, released an 81-page preliminary investigative report on the shooting Friday that contains new photographs of Paddock's hotel suite and online searches he conducted before
  
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• Recovering Alcoholic Officers Run the LAPD's Addiction Prevention Unit

  19-01-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is a difficult subject for early in the morning, huh?” Detective Mike Margolis asks, to some quiet laughter. “What we’re talking about here is making bad decisions.” He looks out at the group: some 35 men and 7 women who have been promoted or are about to be promoted to the rank of sergeant or detective with the LAPD, each of them on the force maybe ten years. They’re sitting at long tables in a conference room at the police academy in Elysian Park.Margo
  
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• Phoenix Police Used New Ballistics Technology to ID Serial Murder Suspect

  19-01-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Phoenix detectives were assembling a jigsaw puzzle of sorts in the past month, piecing together witness statements and physical evidence to mount a nine-victim homicide case against 35-year-old Cleophus Cooksey Jr.The key information was gleaned just two days after Cooksey’s Dec. 17 arrest in the deaths of his mother and stepfather, leading police to believe he was not just a double-murder suspect but a serial killer.Since mid-2017, the Phoenix police department has been using hi
  
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• GA Sheriff Uses Humorous Facebook Posts to Discourage Drivers from Testing Icy Roads

  19-01-2018 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Oconee County (GA) Sheriff’s Office used Facebook to let people know that driving in the snow and ice that fell this week isn’t worth it.The recent onslaught of winter weather had the region shut down, or it should have, except people don’t listen and insisted on driving. While the winter weather wouldn’t have been considered extreme in many parts of the country, Georgians are not known for their winter driving skills. A light dusting of snow is enough to shut down sc
  
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• Baltimore Police Commissioner Fired Over Murder Stats

  19-01-2018 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesConfusion was rampant inside Baltimore Police headquarters on Friday following Mayor Catherine Pugh’s announcement that she had fired Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, as other top commanders had their access to the building and their cell phone service cut off, according to sources within the department.Pugh announced Friday morning that she was replacing Davis with one of his three deputy commissioners: Darryl DeSousa, head of the patrol bureau.As the news was being
  
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• LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Announces Retirement

  19-01-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesCharlie Beck, the son of a police officer whose own career with the Los Angeles Police Department spanned four decades, announced Friday that he will retire early, ending an eight-year tenure as police chief before finishing out the remainder of his second term.Beck made the abrupt announcement during a press conference Friday with Mayor Eric Garcetti to discuss the city’s crime trends. His retirement is effective June 27, KTLA reports.Beck, 64, was sworn in as chief
  
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• Video: Thousands Gather to Remember WA Deputy Slain Responding to Robbery

  19-01-2018 01:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Thousands Gather to Remember WA Deputy Slain Responding to RobberyOn Wednesday, more than 3,000 people packed into Olson Auditorium at Pacific Lutheran University to honor 34-year-old Pierce County Deputy Daniel McCartney, who was shot and killed Jan. 8 after responding to a home invasion robbery near Frederickson, WA.His friends and family spoke of McCartney as a doting father, brave law enforcement officer, dedicated Crossfit coach, well-rounded athlete, and caring friend, reports the N
  
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• OH Deputy Attacked in Court, Fatally Shoots Teen

  19-01-2018 01:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  A deputy fatally shot a 16-year-old in an Ohio courtroom when a fight broke out involving the teen, his family, and the officer on Wednesday, a sheriff's office investigator said. The teen, Joseph Haynes, was struck once in the abdomen during the fight.The incident began as an early afternoon hearing concluded in a domestic relations courtroom in Columbus, said Rick Minerd, investigations chief with the Franklin County (OH) Sheriff's Office.Haynes died about 30 minutes later at a nearby downtown
  
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• Man Arrested in Shooting and Robbery of Off-Duty FL Officer

  19-01-2018 01:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Miami-Dade police announced late Wednesday they arrested a man in the armed robbery and shooting of an off-duty Doral, FL, police officer in the driveway of his Palmetto Bay home.Kionne Bell, 22, was being held in jail with no bond on charges including attempted second-degree murder, armed robbery, aggravated battery on person 65 years or older, and armed burglary, reports the Miami Herald.Late Tuesday night, veteran police officer Lt. Gary King, 70, was returning to his home in Palmetto Bay aft
  
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• Video: AZ Suspect Linked to 9 Murders in 3 Weeks, Police Say

  19-01-2018 00:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: AZ Suspect Linked to 9 Murders in 3 Weeks, Police SayA homicide suspect in Arizona is accused of committing nine murders in just three weeks, Phoenix police said Thursday.Cleophus Cooksey Jr., 35, has been in custody since the last of the nine alleged killings on Dec. 17 when police say he shot and killed his mother and stepfather.But after he was arrested, police kept "digging," Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams said today, and discovered seven other fatal shootings in the area they say
  
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• Slain Deputy Marshal Was Army Vet, Father of 2

  19-01-2018 00:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The U.S. Marshals Service has identified the deputy marshal killed in a shooting in Pennsylvania as Christopher David Hill, 45. He died in the line of duty Thursday morning while serving a warrant on a fugitive in Harrisburg, reports PennLive.com.Two police officers from Harrisburg and York were shot and injured in the attack, as well.Deputy Hill was an 11-year veteran of the U.S. Marshals Service assigned to the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He was part of a Marshals Service task force execu
  
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