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• Video Disputes Woman's Claim That She was Sexually Assaulted by Texas Trooper

  23-05-2018 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Video Disputes Woman's Claim That She was Sexually Assaulted by Texas TrooperAn allegation that a Texas trooper sexually assaulted a woman last weekend in Waxahachie went viral on social media.But after the Department of Public Safety published the full nearly 2-hour body-cam video of the incident, Sherita Dixon-Cole's attorney, Lee Merritt, apologized online and said that the trooper in question had been "falsely accused," the Star-Telegram reports.Cole, 37, of Grapevine, was pulled over at abo
  
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• Houston Chief in War of Words with NRA Over Gun Control

  23-05-2018 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hours after a gunman killed 10 people and wounded 13 others — including a retired Houston police officer at a Santa Fe, TX, high school last week— Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo tweeted a message excoriating elected officials for failing “to enact common sense statutes & policies & continue to fail our families & especially our children.”Acevedo’s tweet was followed by a Facebook post where he said he’d hit “rock bottom” and told peop
  
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• Dallas Officer Wounded in Fatal Shootout with Shoplifting Suspect Leaves Hospital

  23-05-2018 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The father of Dallas police Officer Crystal Almeida said she is making a “remarkable recovery” and was released from a hospital after she was critically wounded almost a month ago in a shooting while on-duty.Almeida, 26, was released from a Dallas hospital Saturday. She and her partner, Rogelio Santander, 27, were shot April 24 outside a Dallas-area Home Depot as they were detaining shoplifting suspect Armando Luis Juarez, 29. Santander was killed in the shooting. 
  
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• ACLU Demands Amazon Stop Providing Facial Recognition Tool to Law Enforcement

  23-05-2018 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two years ago, Amazon built a facial and image recognition product that allows customers to cheaply and quickly search a database of images and look for matches. One of the groups it targeted as potential users of this service was law enforcement. At least two signed on: the Washington County Sheriff's Office outside of Portland, Ore., and the Orlando Police Department in Florida. Now the ACLU and civil rights groups are demanding that Amazon stop selling the s
  
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• Video: Man Charged with Trooper's Murder in Fatal North Carolina Crash

  23-05-2018 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Man Charged with Trooper's Murder in Fatal North Carolina CrashA man wanted following a fatal crash involving a North Carolina Highway Patrol trooper has been captured, reports WSOC-TV.Authorities had been looking for 22-year-old Dakota Kape Whitt after Trooper Samuel N. Bullard, 24, of Wilkes County, died late Monday night in a crash along Interstate 77 in Yadkin County during a chase."Our SHP family is devastated by the loss of Trooper Bullard. We are struggling to find words that descr
  
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• Video: Florida Officer Seriously Injured Crashing into Semi Truck

  23-05-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Florida Officer Seriously Injured Crashing into Semi TruckA Florida police officer was seriously injured Monday evening and had to be airlifted after crashing into the back of a semi truck that was already stopped for a previous accident, reports livetrucking.com.According to CBS 12, the initial wreck began when a pickup truck struck the semi truck while traveling along Beeline Highway in Palm Beach Gardens, and the trucker pulled over to inspect the damage and make sure the motorist was
  
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• Video: Sheriff Praises LE Response to Texas School Shooting

  23-05-2018 02:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Sheriff Praises LE Response to Texas School Shooting"Heroes" inside Santa Fe High School last week cornered the mass shooter within four minutes, keeping him contained until additional officers arrived to evacuate teachers and students, the Galveston County, TX, Sheriff said."Four minutes is about the only timeline that we need to key in on," Sheriff Henry Trochesset said Monday evening, offering new details on how police managed to stop the gunman in Friday’s deadly school shooting
  
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• Idaho Officer Dies of Apparent Heart Attack on Duty

  23-05-2018 01:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Shelley, ID, police officer died while on duty Monday night due to an apparent heart attack, according to EastIdahoNews.com.Sgt. Kent Swanson, a K-9 handler, was at a disturbance call when he collapsed, the Idaho State Fraternal Order of Police's Facebook page said. He was taken to the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, where it was determined he likely died of a heart attack, reports the Idaho Statesman.Swanson was one of eight officers with the Shelley Police Department. He was also a ve
  
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• Florida Active Shooter, Homicide Suspect Found Dead After Standoff

  23-05-2018 01:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A standoff in Panama City, FL, ended Tuesday with the death of the alleged shooter, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.When police were able to get inside the apartment of Kevin Robert Holroyd, they found the suspected killer dead in a gas-soaked apartment, according to the Panama City News Herald.Authorities were searching for Holroyd, 49, in connection with a murder Tuesday morning in Santa Rosa Beach in Walton County, according to the sheriff’s office.When they attempted to access
  
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• 2 NYPD Officers Killed in Maserati Crash

  23-05-2018 00:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two NYPD officers, one of whom was a groom celebrating his wedding day, were killed when their rental Maserati left the road Sunday, police said.Michael Colangelo, 31, had just gotten married. He was from Huntington Station and had been with the NYPD for 10 years. He was assigned to the Emergency Services Unit K-9 squad, CBS New York reports.New York State Police said just before 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Colangelo had just left a reception at Full Moon Resort and gotten into the Maserati with John Mar
  
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