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• Video: Seattle Officer Faces Discipline for Taking Down Ice Ax-Wielding Man

  07-05-2018 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Seattle Officer Faces Discipline for Taking Down Ice Ax-Wielding ManOfficer Nick Guzley of the Seattle Police Department now faces discipline for how he subdued a man armed with an ice ax. A complaint was filed about his failure to de-escalate the situation. However, other officers have said he made the best of a bad situation, and no one ended up getting hurt.The Seattle police footage came from body cameras now being worn by officers, and begins inside the REI on Yale Ave. N. Security w
  
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• Florida Deputy Shot, Killed While Responding to Dispute Over Cat

  07-05-2018 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Highlands County sheriff’s deputy who was shot and critically wounded Sunday while responding to a dispute over a cat has died, officials with the Sheriff's Office said.Sheriff's officials said Deputy William Gentry was called to a neighbor dispute involving a cat that allegedly had been shot in Lake Placid, FL, reports WKMG.Gentry spoke to Joseph Edward Ables, 69, who was suspected of shooting the cat, and he shot Gentry, officials said.Gentry, 40, was airlifted to Lee Memorial Hospital
  
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• Video: Man with Cane Trips Armed Suspect Running from Ohio Officers

  07-05-2018 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Man with Cane Trips Armed Suspect Running from Ohio OfficersOn April 3, Columbus, OH, police officers were pursuing two armed men on foot when they received some unexpected help from a civilian.Video released last week shows the civilian who was only identified as Bill tripping one of the suspects."Bill was at a west Columbus library with his granddaughter. He was waiting outside to leave when he heard police sirens. He tells us he looked around and saw a man with his hand in his waistban
  
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• Springfield Armory Severs Ties with Dick's Sporting Goods

  07-05-2018 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Springfield Armory is severing ties with Dick's Sporting Goods and its subsidiary, Field & Stream, in response to their hiring a group for anti-Second Amendment lobbying, the company said in a press release.The release reads:"This latest action follows Dick's Sporting Goods' decision to remove and destroy all modern sporting rifles (MSR) from their inventory. In addition, they have denied Second Amendment rights to Americans under the age of 21. We at Springfield Armory believe that all law
  
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• Puerto Rico Officer Hit, Killed while Helping Disabled Motorist

  07-05-2018 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  San Juan (Puerto Rico) Police Agent Joel Pantojas-Fuente was struck and killed by a vehicle at approximately 7:05 am Sunday while assisting a disabled motorist on the Luis A. Ferre Expressway (PR-52).He was en route home at the end of his shift when he encountered the vehicle in the left lane on the highway. He activated the emergency equipment on his department motorcycle and was attempting to push the vehicle onto the shoulder of the highway. Another vehicle entered the area, struck his motorc
  
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• Indiana Officer Killed in Shootout with Homicide Suspect

  07-05-2018 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Terre Haute, IN, police officer was killed Friday evening in an exchange of gunfire between multiple officers and a homicide suspect. The suspect was also killed.The slain officer has been identified as Patrolman Rob Pitts of Sullivan, Ind., a 16-year-veteran of the Terre Haute Police Department.The name of the suspect, who barricaded himself inside an apartment complex has not yet been released.Terre Haute Officer Ryan Adamson told the Indianapolis Star that Pitts' investigation of a hom
  
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