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“A lot of officers are being too cautious because of what’s going on in the media,” the officer, who asked to remain anonymous for the safety of his family, told CNN. “I hesitated because I didn’t want to be in the media like I am right now.”
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Officers are angry that any photos were shown at all, but even more so that there were some who mocked the incident. "He was laying there lifeless and people were standing around taking pictures,'' said Birmingham police Sgt. Heath Boackle, president of the Fraternal Order of Police. "If the tables were turned, and that was a suspect lying there, they would be rioting."
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According to the lawsuit, Redding claims Glenn brought a yellow Burmese python described as being 6 to 7 feet long into the jail. Despite the claims in the suit, Burmese pythons are not venomous.
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Mason, a community relations dog that was not involved in the arrests of suspects, died at 11 p.m. Friday, a day after police said its handler, Cpl. Josh Coleman, left the animal inside a hot car.
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Montgomery (Ala.) PD Officer David Lee Colley, 24, was killed in a car crash involving an 18-wheeler on Saturday in south Montgomery while responding to a call.
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Video and pictures from the scene show the 18-wheeler collided with the driver's side of Montgomery (Ala.) PD Officer David Lee Colley's patrol car, but officials haven't said exactly how the accident happened. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is investigating the crash. More Here.
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RIBCraft, manufacturer of professional grade rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) for safety professionals, law enforcement, and military agencies, announced the delivery of a specialized RIBCraft 7.8 for patrol and enforcement operations to the City of Decatur, Alabama.
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Lieutenant Richard Woods of the Pell City (Ala.) Police Department died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack while helping extract a person involved in a serious traffic accident.
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Gov. Robert Bentley also ordered the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to launch a parallel investigation — the Federal Bureau of Investigation has already started its own probe — into the "excessive force" that left Sureshbhai Patel, 57, partially paralyzed.
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Officer Roger O’Dell died Wednesday morning while on a call. He had just picked up two juvenile detention facility escapees at an apartment complex, and was on his way back into the apartment when he collapsed.
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