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• Video: Port Authority Commissioner Resigns After Confrontation with New Jersey Officers

  25-04-2018 23:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Port Authority Commissioner Resigns After Confrontation with New Jersey OfficersShe dropped the F-bomb. She belittled police officers. And she flashed her Port Authority commissioner's badge.A police video of a seemingly routine traffic stop in the Bergen County, NJ, community of Tenafly generated outrage this week by the actions of Caren Z. Turner, who harangued police who had pulled over a car carrying her daughter.Turner's tirade against the patrol officers included profanity, insults
  
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• South Carolina Deputy Collapses at Training Event and Dies

  25-04-2018 23:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Lancaster County (SC) Sheriff Office says a deputy who had served the community for more than 25 years died in the line of duty Tuesday night after collapsing following a training event.Deputy James Kirk Jr. died at Springs Memorial Hospital after collapsing during the training event at the sheriff’s office firing range. He died from what appears to be a medical condition, Sheriff Barry Faile told WSOC TV.Kirk, 57, served the citizens of Lancaster County for the past 28 years. He began
  
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• Man Wanted for Shooting Dallas Officers Captured

  25-04-2018 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Law enforcement officers in Dallas have arrested a man wanted in the Tuesday afternoon shooting of two Dallas officers and an employee at a North Dallas Home Depot.Police arrested Armando Luis Juarez, 29, on charges of aggravated assault on a police officer and felony theft. He was taken into custody shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday after a lengthy car chase involving officers from various agencies.The two Dallas officers are reportedly in critical condition at a local hospital. There is no word o
  
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• Toronto Officer Praised for Response in Standoff with Van Suspect

  25-04-2018 03:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Images of the tense standoff between officers and the man suspected of hitting and killing multiple people on a Toronto sidewalk with his rented van are earning Toronto police kudos for their response, reports the Toronto Star.The bystander footage shows a man standing near a white van stopped on a sidewalk, with his outstretched arm pointing a dark object at an officer out in the street. A man’s voice can be heard telling the officer to “kill me” and “shoot me in the hea
  
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• Video: Virginia Officer Donates Kidney to Boy, Son of Firefighter

  25-04-2018 02:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Virginia Officer Donates Kidney to Boy, Son of FirefighterA 13-year-old boy is getting another chance at life thanks to a police officer who donated her kidney to him.Ian Dennis was diagnosed with Stage 5 kidney failure last May. “His kidneys were very small and as his body grew it outgrew the function of the kidney. So, he was slowly getting sicker his whole life,” Chris Dennis, a veteran of the Chesapeake Fire Department and Ian's dad, told WAVY.Ian's parents weren't a match
  
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• Toronto Van Attack Suspect Charged with Murder

  25-04-2018 02:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alek Minassian, the man accused of plowing into Toronto pedestrians with a rented van on Monday, was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder, reports CNN.The 25-year-old is also charged with 13 counts of attempted murder. Authorities said another count of attempted murder likely will be added.Investigators are still trying to determine the motive behind the attack, which left 10 people dead and 14 hurt.So far, officials aren't calling the attack an act of terrorism. "There would ap
  
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• Community Helps Retired NYPD Officer Pay for Cancer Treatment

  25-04-2018 02:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Retired NYPD Officer Scott Blackshaw, who spent days searching for bodies at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks, was told he only had months to live after he was diagnosed with terminal brain and spinal cancer earlier this year.Then his Long Island neighbors stepped in, reports the New York Daily News.As Blackshaw, 52, recently began a new holistic care program in hopes of finding a cure, friends in his hometown of Huntington Station, local business owners and former colleagues have rallied toge
  
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• 1 Dallas Officer Killed, 1 Critically Wounded in Shooting

  25-04-2018 02:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One Dallas Police Department officer has died, and one is critically wounded, after a shooting at a Home Depot store in north Dallas, police officials say, reports CBSDFW.One security guard was also shot in the incident at the Home Depot at U.S. 75 and Forest Lane, multiple sources told WFAA. There are reports the security guard is off-duty law enforcement.The two Dallas officers, a man and a woman, were helping a security guard who was responding to an incident at the store.The suspect, who is
  
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• Border Agent Acquitted of Murder in Fatal Shooting of Teen

  25-04-2018 01:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  A mistrial was declared Monday in the case of a U.S. Border Patrol agent after an Arizona jury acquitted him of a second-degree murder charge in the death of a teen from Mexico but deadlocked on lesser counts of manslaughter.The decision by U.S. District Judge Raner Collins means prosecutors could seek another trial for Agent Lonnie Swartz on the manslaughter charges in the 2012 death of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, who was fatally shot as he threw rocks at authorities during a drug smuggling a
  
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• Ohio Officer Gives Firefighter "Sorry I Tased You" Cake

  25-04-2018 01:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A police officer in Ohio handed an apology cake to a firefighter who was accidentally shocked when she deployed her stun gun during an altercation, reports Newsweek.The Hamilton Township (OH) Police Department said on Facebook that the officer, named only as Officer Workman, was assisting the Fire Department when an altercation occurred between the patient and team on arrival to the hospital.While she was attempting to get the patient under control, Workman deployed her TASER and “inadvert
  
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