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• Suspect in Critical Wounding of Florida Officer was Arrested, Put on Immigration Detainer in 2010

  25-07-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A man suspected of shooting a Fort Myers, FL, police officer in the head Saturday night was targeted for deportation after an arrest in 2010.An ICE hold was requested for Wisner Desmaret, a Hatian national, after a 2010 arrest for burglary, theft and possession of burglary tools. The state attorney's office decided not to prosecute the case for what they said was insufficient evidence, the News-Press reports.Saturday night Fort Myers Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller was shot in the head dur
  
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• Ohio Officer Critically Wounded in Standoff Released from Hospital

  25-07-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After eight weeks of healing and rehabilitation, Amherst, OH, police Officer Gene “JR” Ptacek returned home to his family Tuesday.Ptacek, a member of the Lorain County SWAT team, was shot during a standoff May 31 in Sheffield Lake. The SWAT team and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force were attempting to serve a felony arrest warrant, when the suspect reportedly barricaded himself in his home. The suspect was apprehended later that night, the Chronicle-Telegram reports.Ptacek is a 1
  
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• Legal Weed Putting Some Canadian Police Dogs Out of Work

  25-07-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The upcoming legalization of marijuana in Canada is putting a group of police dogs out of work.Fourteen Royal Canadian Mounted Police interdiction dogs, which are used primarily to search for drugs, are being retired or sold to other forces because their training to sniff marijuana could cause problems for Crown prosecutors once pot is no longer illegal to possess."Our interdiction dogs are often used to form grounds to continue searching or to arrest people," said Staff Sgt. Gary Cree
  
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• Anti-ICE Protesters Yelled Racial Slurs at Federal Officers in Portland

  25-07-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesFederal officers policing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland say they were subjected to a barrage of hateful and at times racially-charged invective during the monthlong demonstration at the facility.Email records obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive detail some of the insults and taunting that several nonwhite federal officers say they endured.Protesters have held a nonstop demonstration at the ICE field office since June 17, decrying the Trump a
  
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• Custom SIG Pistol from Criminal Minds Now in NRA Museum

  25-07-2018 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Recently, at the grand re-opening of the National Firearms Museum's Hollywood Gun Exhibit, Criminal Minds star Joe Mantegna officially placed a SIG Sauer 1911 pistol, identical to the pistol used by his character, David Rossi, in the upcoming 14th season of Criminal Minds, into the exhibit. The customized pistol is a SIG Sauer 1911 TACOPS Full-Size inscribed with the eagle, globe, and anchor of the US Marine Corps to represent the prior service of Mantegna's character, FBI Special Agent David Ro
  
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• Panasonic Announces Updated FZ-N1 Device

  25-07-2018 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Panasonic, an industry leader in mobile computing solutions that are purpose‐built for the way people work, has announced a major update to its popular and acclaimed Toughbook N1 rugged handheld device. The latest 4.7-inch device has been refined to meet the challenges of today's workplaces, with hardware and features designed to make capturing, sharing, and analyzing data faster and easier than ever."When workers turn to Toughbook devices we know that it's because they are tackling challe
  
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