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Special Unitsby Staff WriterJune 14, 2016

Video: ISIS-Inspired Attacker Kills French Police Captain, Streams It on Facebook

President François Hollande described the killings of the couple — police Capt. Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, and his partner, Jessica Schneider, 36, identified as an administrative secretary at a police department outside Paris — as "undeniably a terrorist attack" and said that "France is confronted by an extremely high terrorist threat."

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Patrolby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

Video: Man Arrested Sunday in California with Weapons May Have Been Targeting Gay Pride Parade

An Indiana man armed with three semi-automatic rifles and chemicals that could be used to make explosives was arrested in Southern California on Sunday and told police he was headed to a West Hollywood gay pride parade, officials said.

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Patrolby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

Former Officer Who Worked with Nightclub Shooter Says Man Got Pass on Homophobia Because He was Muslim

A former Fort Pierce police officer who once worked with 29-year-old Omar Mateen, the assailant in an Orlando nightclub shooting that left at least 50 dead, said he was "unhinged and unstable."

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Patrolby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

DEA Says Officers Can Die from Handling Powerful Narcotic

The DEA warns officers to take extra precautions if they come in contact with the drug, which is said to be 50 times more powerful than heroin.

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Patrolby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

Orlando Chief Sends Inspirational E-Mail to Officers After Nightclub Massacre

"On the darkest day of my 25 years at the Orlando Police Department, I wanted to take a moment to tell all of you how proud I am of the work you have done today and will do over the next days and weeks."

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Special Unitsby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

Video: Responding to the Orlando Nightclub Massacre

Mina said the off-duty officer engaged in a shoot-out with Mateen up until more officers arrived. Additional police officers arrived and also engaged the suspect, and “forced him to stop shooting and retreat to the bathroom where he had some hostages.”

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Patrolby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

FBI Probed Orlando Terrorist for 10 months, Now Sees "Strong Indications of Radicalization"

The FBI closed out that probe in May 2014 after Mateen, during the course of two FBI interviews, told agents he had made those statements “in anger” because he thought his co-workers were discriminating against him and were “teasing him because he was a Muslim,” Comey said.

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Patrolby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

Man Brandishing BB Gun Shot by Denver Police

A suspect, who police say was pointing a gun at people from a balcony in downtown Denver, is recovering from a gunshot wound he suffered when officers opened fire.

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Patrolby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

Baltimore Prosecutor Facing Total Collapse of Freddie Gray Cases if Driver Acquitted

“The whole point is they put him in the back of a paddy wagon and they roughed him up and that’s why he died. If you can’t even prove causation for the basic theory of the case for the driver of the vehicle and the injury then how can you prove all these ancillary officers did something wrong?”

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Patrolby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

IACP Issues Statement on Orlando Terror Attack

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has issued a statement on the Orlando terror attack.

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