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At the Magic City Casino in Miami, a gambler who had been drinking was shot by an officer after refusing to leave, throwing money at the officer, and wrestling him to the ground, then cutting his face.
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Heffernan was demoted to patrol officer the next day and told it was because of his "overt" involvement in a political campaign. But was it a First Amendment issue?
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The 22-year-old driver of a Marion County (IL) Sheriff's Department transport van was killed Wednesday morning in a weather-related accident with a semi.
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Smith County, TX, law enforcement officers are concentrating their focus on three counties as they search for a man wanted in the fatal shooting of a deputy K-9 constable.
Read More →In December, police killed 92 people — 21 blacks, 40 whites, 17 Hispanics/Latinos, five Asians/Pacific Islanders, and nine of unknown race. Fourteen were unarmed, including five blacks. Those who were unarmed reportedly still posed other types of threats to officers. These threats included physical violence and ramming officers with a vehicle.
Read More →A man who an anonymous tipster claimed had pledged his allegiance to ISIS and was planning to shoot police officers in New York and Philadelphia has turned himself in to police, law enforcement.
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Judge Barry G. Williams questioned prosecutors' motives for asking him last week to compel Officer William G. Porter to testify against all five of his fellow officers who are facing trial. Until then, they had said Porter was a witness against only two officers.
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The decision came after DeKalb County prosecutors presented their case against Officer Robert Olsen, who fatally shot Anthony Hill on March 9 while responding to a call of a man behaving erratically outside a suburban Atlanta apartment complex.
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At the SHOT Show this week body-worn camera maker Vievu and its parent company Safariland showed auto-activation technology for triggering a recording on a body-worn camera once a weapon is drawn from an officer’s Safariland 7TS series duty holster or once an item of equipment is removed from an officer’s Safariland ALERT Belt.
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The ThOR HD can instantly correct point of impact based on ballistic calculations, record video, take pictures, share photos, update via Wi-Fi, and of course gives the user thermal vision.
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