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Fourteen police officers were killed in an ambush attack in the state of Michoacán, where drug cartels have for years been engaged in violent battle with each other and with Mexican police.
An officer with the Savanna (IL) Police Department was taken to the hospital after a man who was reportedly harboring a fugitive attacked officers attempting to arrest the wanted man.
An officer with the New York Police Department was struck by a car during a traffic stop in Brooklyn on Saturday.
An officer with the Chattanooga Police Department suffered an injury to the hand when the driver of a vehicle accelerated and struck the officer before crashing into a tree and a utility pole.
An officer with the Fox Valley (WI) Police Department who shot and killed a man last month will not face criminal charges.
The Newark (OH) Division of Police recently celebrated the 50-year anniversary of its K-9 Unit.
The Sparta (WI) Police Department had some fun on social media after an discovered a box of half-eaten donuts in a parking lot late one night.
Dean is accused of killing 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson when he fired a shot from outside the home through a window. The body camera Dean was wearing during the incident recorded the officer ordering someone to show their hands. Officials say Dean did not identify himself as a police officer before firing.
Police Chief Ed Kraus said he intended to fire Officer Aaron Dean, who had been on the force since April 2018, on Monday morning, but Dean resigned first.
Bomba, a 13-year veteran of the department, had called out on a radio about “disorderly subjects” in the parking garage, county police spokesman Tom Jordan said, and was found wounded by officers who arrived to assist.
