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• 1 California Officer Killed, 1 Wounded by Barricaded Suspect

  10-03-2018 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Pomona, CA police officer who was shot by a barricaded suspect has died, and a second officer also injured during the unfolding incident is in stable condition, officials said Saturday.Fire officials responded to an apartment complex in the 1400 block of South Palomares Street about 9:30 p.m. Friday, where shots rang out, video from the scene showed.About 11:35 p.m. Pomona Police Chief Micael Olivieri tweeted that two officers were shot and the scene was still active.SWAT, as well as
  
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• FL SRO Heard Shots Inside School Building, Told Officers to Stay Away

  10-03-2018 02:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roundly vilified for not entering a Parkland high school during a mass shooting, Broward Deputy Scot Peterson insisted publicly that he believed that gunfire was happening outside on campus — not inside the building.But internal radio dispatches released by the Broward Sheriff’s Office Thursday show Peterson immediately fixated on Building 12 and even radioed that gunfire was happening “inside,” reports the Miami Herald.And, just as school shooter Nikolas Cruz was fleeing
  
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• Florida Governor Signs ‘School Safety’ Bill That Could Arm Teachers

  10-03-2018 02:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed into state law new gun restrictions ─ and a provision that allows teachers to arm themselves ─ crafted in response to the February killing of 17 people at a suburban high school.The measure — dubbed the "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act" — raises the age to buy all firearms to 21, imposes a three-day waiting period for most gun purchases, allows trained school workers to carry handguns, provides new mental hea
  
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• Video: Georgia Officer Dragged 1 Mile While Suspects Toss Guns from Car

  10-03-2018 02:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Georgia Officer Dragged 1 Mile While Suspects Toss Guns from CarA Marietta, GA, police officer conducting a traffic stop was dragged down the road for more than a mile at high speeds, reports the Ledger-Enquirer.It started at around 7:30 a.m., when Officer Brian Wallace pulled over a white Ford Fusion for a moving violation. Wallace noticed the driver's body language seemed "odd," and also smelled marijuana in the car, so he asked the driver to get out and called backup to help search the
  
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• Texas DPS to Start Tracking Troopers' Waistlines

  10-03-2018 02:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beginning this month, the Texas Department of Public Safety will begin recording the height, weight and "waist [belly] measurement" of its 4,297 commissioned officers during their routine physical readiness tests, according to an email sent last week. All officers are required to pass two physical fitness assessments each fiscal year, reports the Dallas Morning News."Obesity is a significant health issue in the United States and in the law enforcement profession. In addition to the personal heal
  
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• Video: California Cafe Won't Serve Police Officers

  10-03-2018 01:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: California Cafe Won't Serve Police OfficersA new café in Oakland, CA, is refusing to serve law enforcement officers as a matter of policy, reports KTVU.It all started when an Oakland police sergeant stopped by Hasta Muerte Coffee in the Fruitvale District of the city to introduce himself and to buy a cup of coffee, but the sergeant was denied service.According to a letter sent to the café by the Oakland police union, café staff told the sergeant that it "does not serv
  
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• Rookie Trooper Saves Crash Victim with Makeshift Tourniquet

  10-03-2018 01:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A rookie New Jersey state trooper is being credited with saving an accident victim by using part of a tree branch and a T-shirt to make a tourniquet, reports the Courier Post.Trooper Kenneth Minnes was off duty when he came across a serious one-car crash on the Atlantic City Expressway in Gloucester Township around 2:30 Monday, according to a report.With the assistance of others who stopped to help, Minnes moved the injured pair away from the car before it became fully engulfed in flames. He the
  
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• Woman Tried to Shoot MN Trooper in the Head, Court Documents Say

  10-03-2018 01:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  A driver who was wounded in an officer-involved shooting Monday on Interstate 94 tried to shoot a Minnesota State Patrol trooper in the head before being shot herself in the arm, according to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Clay County District Court documents filed in the case of a male passenger.Trooper Mark Peterson stopped Monday morning to help the woman, identified as Melody Victoria Gray, 30, and her male passenger, Domonique Maurice Crayton, 29, both of Milwaukee, who were
  
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• Georgia Deputy Had His Ex-Wife Arrested Because He Didn't Like Her Facebook Post

  10-03-2018 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne King and a friend found themselves behind bars for a few hours in 2015 after reportedly bad-mouthing King's ex-husband, a sheriff's deputy in Washington County, GA, with posts on Facebook. Now King is suing her ex and his colleague for violating her constitutional rights, reports CNN.The whole thing began in January 2015, when Anne King posted a short Facebook status expressing frustration that her ex, Corey King, refused to drop off some medication for their children on his way to work."Th
  
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