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BART police Sgt. Tom Smith had asked his superiors to assign the department's SWAT team to take part in high-risk searches of residences to ensure safety, but was rebuffed, before he was shot dead last month by a fellow officer during a search in a Dublin apartment.
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Officers who object to wearing ballistic face shields/helmets in high-risk shooting situations should have a face-to-face discussion with their children and ask their children, "What if daddy or mommy would get killed at work and not ever come home again and not ever hug and kiss you or play with you, how would you feel?"
Read More →A Taylor County (Fla.) Sheriff's deputy getting his car fixed at the Timberland Ford dealership jumped into action after a man crashed through the front of the business with his vehicle and opened fire.
Read More →Jose Angel Garcia-Jauregui, 27, succumbed to his injuries Friday at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. He was shot in Juab County on Thursday after police say he shot and killed Sgt. Cory Wride, 44, and wounded Deputy Greg Sherwood, 38.
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The Greensville County (Va.) Sheriff’s Deputy whose disappearance Friday morning sparked a massive search was found deceased Saturday.
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The Whiteville, Tenn. community is mourning the loss of Officer Eddie Hamer, a Whiteville police officer who was killed in a car crash last Monday afternoon.
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Authorities say Sgt. Cory Wride of the Utah County Sheriff's Office was ambushed about 1 p.m. as he stopped to check on a vehicle abandoned on the side of Highway 73 between Eagle Mountain and Cedar Fort.
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A motorcycle officer with the Jefferson County (Colo.) Sheriff's Office was killed while on patrol Sunday at 10:05 a.m., after being struck by a car that crossed double yellow lines to illegally pass. Sgt. David Baldwin was a military veteran in the U.S. Air Force as well as a highly decorated 27-year veteran of the agency.
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The pursuit began around 9:40 Thursday morning when Undersheriff Beck tried to serve felony arrest warrants on Quentin Lee Johnson, 27, of Sentinel, Okla. Johnson, who was wanted on drug and weapons charges, fled in his pickup truck with Beck in hot pursuit.
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Tamayo, 46, was condemned for the January 1994 murder of Houston police officer Guy Gaddis, 24 (pictured above). Tamayo, who had been imprisoned in California for aggravated robbery, shot the officer three times with a pistol hidden in his clothing as he was being taken to jail.
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