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• Video: LAPD Releases Video of Officer Shot at Point Blank Range During Traffic Stop

  11-09-2018 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: LAPD Releases Video of Officer Shot at Point Blank Range During Traffic Stop"The Los Angeles Police Department has released video on YouTube from a July shooting at a traffic stop that left an officer with a gunshot wound to her leg.On July 27, two officers stopped a vehicle driven by a man identified as 32-year-old Richard "Biz" Mendoza—who had prior convictions for possession of a firearm by a felon and narcotics sales.As the officer—a nine-year veteran of the department&mda
  
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• Florida Police Officer Teaches Disadvantaged Kids Boxing, Life Skills

  11-09-2018 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Officer Dennis Small with the Tampa Bay (FL) Police Department is the lead instructor for that agency's Police Athletic League boxing program.Small tells WFLA-TV that it is "so much more than just gloves and rings and belts."Smalls is also "instilling kids with discipline, teaching respect, and giving them a desire to succeed," the news station said.Most of the kids he teaches are from broken homes and living in poverty. 
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• Massachusetts Officer Struck by Car in February Returns to Duty

  11-09-2018 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Officer Luis Santos with the Auburn (MA) Police Department has returned to duty, according to a post on the Auburn Police Association Facebook page."Officer Santos has been out after he was struck by a motor vehicle that was fleeing a house break in Millbury while outside of his cruiser in February 2017," the APA said in its post.Santos was attempting to end the vehicle pursuit by deploying stop sticks when he was struck. Santos was hospitalized for six days with a concussion, a broken leg and o
  
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• Man Tries to Choke California K-9 with its Own Leash

  11-09-2018 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Officers with the Moreno Valley (CA) Police Department were attempting to arrest a man suspected of holding a woman hostage in his car when the subject reportedly tried to choke a K-9 with his own collar.In video obtained by KABC-TV, the shirtless man can be seen violently resisting several officers attempting to take him into custody.K-9 Herbie was deployed during the struggle.The suspect—identified as 22-year-old Matthew Rubaclava—attempted to choke Herbie, who was later taken to a
  
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• Kansas Police Arrest Man for Shooting at 2 Kansas City Police Vehicles

  11-09-2018 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Officers with the Kansas City (KS) Police Department were able to identify and arrest a man who is suspected of shooting at two parked KCKPD squad cars at the department's Traffic Support Unit.The man has not yet been identified.According to KMBC-TV, no officers were injured. 
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• Subject Brutally Beats Mississippi Dispatcher at Police Station

  11-09-2018 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Mississippi dispatcher was brutally beaten last week when a man showed up at the police department and attacked her, police said.Barbara King was on duty at the Clarksdale (MS) Police Department last week when a man—identified as Stacy Clark—arrived at the station seeking to obtain property that was left in the building, according to Fox News.Clarksdale Police Chief Sandra Williams told WREG-TV that Clark began viciously beating King, but that the dispatcher had the strength to sum
  
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• NYPD Marks 9/11 Anniversary with Twitter Tribute to Fallen First Responders

  11-09-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On September 11, 2001, 23 police officers with the New York City Police Department, 343 firefighters with the New York City Fire Department, and 37 police officers of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department perished when the Twin Towers collapsed.Today, the NYPD paid tribute to those first responders with a series of Twitter posts—one for each NYPD officer and several others paying tribute to the FDNY and PAPD, as well as for those who died at the Pentagon and in Sh
  
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• Handcuffed Man in Back Seat of Squad Car Obtains Gun, Kills Himself

  11-09-2018 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  A man handcuffed and sitting in the back of a Spotsylvania County (VA) Sheriff's Office squad car reportedly was able to get his hands in front of him, obtain a gun from a "restricted area" of the vehicle, and shoot himself in the head, leaving him with a wound that would ultimately kill him.The man’s mother, Linda Richardson, accused the Sheriff’s Office of negligence, saying: "This did not have to happen."Deputies were standing near the squad car—discussing their next course
  
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• Washington Officers Cleared of Wrongdoing in Non-Fatal OIS of Armed Man

  11-09-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office has determined that two law enforcement officers were justified in shooting a man who was wielding a bolt-action rifle in March.According to the Spokesman-Review, the man—identified as 34-year-old Ronald Acre—reportedly struggled with mental illness and was being served an eviction notice by a deputy and a police officer at the time of the shooting.Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said at the time of the incident that Acre had been s
  
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• Toddler Hands New York Trooper a Bag of Drugs During Traffic Stop

  11-09-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The New York State Police issued a statement detailing a traffic stop during which a 3-year-old child handed a trooper a bag of marijuana."The trooper had initiated the traffic stop on Route 32 in New Scotland," the statement said. "The driver was found with an ashtray containing the butt ends of several marijuana cigarettes."One trooper interviewed the driver outside the car, while a second checked on the wellbeing of the 3-year-old girl in the back seat—who was reportedly not in a proper
  
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