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• Video: LAPD Releases Footage of Officers Shooting Knife Wielding Man After Ineffective Less-Lethal Deployment

  06-08-2018 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: LAPD Release Body Cam Footage of Officers Shooting Knife Wielding ManA man suspected of stabbing his wife withstood beanbag rounds, a TASER deployment, and numerous gunshots but kept coming at officers, according to body camera footage released by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).The June incident began when police received a 911 call from a woman who reported the stabbing, saying that the victim's intestines were hanging out of her body, according to LAPD.Officers arrived and con
  
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• Video: Texas Officer Who Worked 32 Years Without a Sick Day Retires

  06-08-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Texas Officer Who Worked 32 Years Without a Sick Day Retires Senior Patrol Officer Ronald "Pookie" Hall of the Texas City (TX) Police Department — who never took a sick day in his 32 years on the job — was celebrated by colleagues on his final day on duty."You are the longest-serving African American officer in the police department's history," dispatcher Debralee Fleming said during the radio tribute.The final radio call was captured on camera and posted to the police departm
  
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• Texas Police Continue Search for Officer Missing Since Thursday

  06-08-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Chambers County (TX) Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for help in finding a police officer who has been missing since Thursday, according to KHOU-TV.According to Chambers County Sheriff Brian C. Hawthorne, 46-year-old Baytown Police Officer John Stewart Beasley is believed to have walked out of his house in the mid-afternoon. His cell phone — which had been separated from its battery — was found in a wooded area behind the home.Sheriff Hawthorne said there are no indic
  
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• Philadelphia Officer Shot While Serving Warrant in Critical Condition

  06-08-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  A veteran SWAT officer with the Philadelphia (PA) Police Department was shot in the face and critically injured while serving a warrant for a weapons violation early Monday morning.Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said that Officer Jaison Potts suffered "very serious" facial injuries, including a broken jaw, and may have artery damage, according to WCAU-TV.When SWAT officers entered the subject's residence they immediately came under fire. Officers returned fire, reportedly hitting
  
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• New Mexico Police Rescue 11 Children from Squalid Conditions in Compound

  06-08-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Police in New Mexico have rescued 11 children — ranging in age from one to 15 years of age — reportedly living in squalor in a compound near the New Mexico-Colorado border.Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe told ABC News Radio that the children's ribs were visible they were so starved of food."They were in very poor hygiene and very scared," he said."I've been a cop for 30 years. I've never seen anything like this. Unbelievable," Hogrefe said. "These children were hungry, they were th
  
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• Video: Arkansas Police Chief Wounded in Shooting that left the Subject Dead

  06-08-2018 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Arkansas Police Chief Wounded in Shooting that left the Subject DeadThe Chief of Police for the Trumann (AR) Police Department was injured in a shooting while on duty Friday, according to WMC-TV.Chief Chad Henson had responded to a call for help at the home of a man named Johnny Kelley.Kelley reportedly began shooting at Chief Henson when he arrived at the scene. Henson returned fire, killing Kelley, according to Arkansas State Police.Chief Henson was transported to a local hospital to un
  
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• Sheriff Livid Over False Claim an Employee Wrote Racial Slur on Meal Receipt

  06-08-2018 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Sheriff Jeremy Shipley with the Freestone County (TX) Sheriff's Office learned that a widely-circulated social media post claimed that one of his employees had scrawled a racial slur on a restaurant receipt, he conducted a thorough investigation.Shipley met with the restaurant’s manager, whom he described as very cooperative, and reviewed surveillance video footage, compared the handwriting on the check to different sources, and then met with the waitress, according to KWTX-TV.During
  
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• Video: Alabama Officer Indicted on Murder Charge in Fatal Shooting

  06-08-2018 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Alabama Officer Indicted on Murder Charge in Fatal ShootingAn officer with the Huntsville (AL) Police Department who in April had responded to a call of an armed suicidal subject has been indicted on a murder charge for shooting that man.According to court documents, 25-year-old officer William Darby was one of three responding officers who confronted 49-year-old Jeffrey Parker, who reportedly had a gun and refused to drop it, according to WAFF-TV.Despite the fact that an Incident Review
  
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• New York Officer Leaps from Overpass to Save Boy

  06-08-2018 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  A police officer with the Hastings-on-Hudson (NY) Police Department was on her way to work Friday afternoon when she saw a boy jump from an overpass onto concrete below, according to USA Today.When Officer Jessie Ferreira Cavallo saw the boy jump from the overpass, she slammed her car into park, grabbed her first aid kit, ran to the railing, and leaped after him.Another woman in a military uniform also stopped to help.Eventually, the boy opened his eyes, and was transported to a local hospital.
  
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• Boston Police Blocked from Helping Officer Being Assaulted by Teen

  06-08-2018 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Officers attempting to come to the aid of an officer who was being kicked in the face by a juvenile at a community center were denied access to the ongoing assault by a front desk worker who feared being reprimanded by her boss, according to the Boston Herald."Responding officers, forced to watch the altercation through the community center's glass doors, were unable to gain entry and provide support to the struggling officer because a front desk staffer refused to let them in," according to the
  
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• Community-Minded Georgia Officer Named HAIX Hero of the Month

  06-08-2018 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ptl. Travis Goodson of the Albany (GA) Police Department has been named the HAIX Hero of the Month for July.Goodson is well known for his work in the Albany community during his four years on the force and for his #HUGACOP program.Goodson's supervisor nominated him for HAIX Hero of the Month. In the nomination he wrote: "Ptl. Travis Goodson is very passionate about the City of Albany becoming one community." Toward that end, Goodson has organized and coordinated a number of community initiatives
  
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