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Cpl. Ben Cooper, who died Tuesday, and Officer Jake Reed were the two officers who responded to the call Tuesday afternoon reporting a disturbance at the Northpark Crossing shopping center and were shot shortly after making contact with Anthony Felix, 40, in the parking lot.
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He attacked one of the officers and took the officer’s handgun. The patient was shot by a second officer, but during the incident the first officer was shot as well.
Read More →RUAG International has agreed to sell its small-caliber ammunition business RUAG Ammotec to Beretta Holding. Beretta Holding will take over all 2,700 employees at all production and sales sites.
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Several officers pulled the man out. It's unclear if the man was conscious at the time, but officials said they treated the man until the DeKalb County Fire Rescue Department and paramedics arrived.
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"The police had to make a decision to attempt to save life and they made a reasonable decision at that moment."
Read More →A former D.C. chief medical examiner said in an earlier review that there was “a direct cause and effect relationship between the line of duty work trauma on Jan. 6 and Jeffrey Smith’s death,” adding that Smith had “no prior history of depression, mental health issues or mental health treatment.”
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The push to hire more civilians comes on the heels of moving more than 100 sworn members of the department from specialty roles over to patrol.
Read More →Johnny Wheatcroft and his family sued the city of Glendale, then-Officer Matthew Schneider and two other officers in 2018, claiming Schneider repeatedly used a TASER on Wheatcroft after he was handcuffed and detained following a traffic stop.
Read More →Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said that by joining dozens of other departments in the “30 x 30 Pledge” — an initiative meant to encourage increasing the percentage of female officers in recruiting classes to 30 percent by 2030 — he wants to make D.C. police “the most equitable agency for women in the law enforcement field.”
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Putting themselves at risk, they worked to free the pilot, who suffered severe injuries, from the wreck just before the Metro Link train demolished what was left of the plane.
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