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When a lit cigarette started a fire in the home of James Rockwell's mother in Thorton, Colorado, it was an officer who shares the same name as his department—Ryan Thorton—who rushed in to save the woman from the flames and smoke.
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Two officers with the Charlottesville (VA) Police Department who were responding to a call of shots fired were themselves struck by gunfire by the suspected gunman in the incident. Neither of the officers appears to have life-threatening injuries.
Read More →An officer with the Kettering (OH) Police Department has returned to duty after a grand jury cleared him of any wrongdoing in the shooting of 31-year-old Wayne Morgan at a traffic stop.
Read More →A Colorado teenager is facing 32 counts—including attempted first-degree murder of a police officer, three counts of second-degree kidnapping, five counts of first-degree burglary and robbery—for an August 20 incident that left Cherry Hills Police Officer Cory Sack with a gunshot wound to the leg.
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The Cincinnati (OH) Police Department has released body-worn camera footage of four officers responding to an active shooter in a bank lobby last week. The officers—identified as Officer Jennifer Chilton, Officer Antonio Etter, Officer Eric Kaminsky, and Police Specialist Greg Toyeas—were responding to 911 calls saying that a man had opened fire on people at the Fifth Third Bank Center lobby on Fountain Square.
Read More →A sergeant with the Fort Worth (TX) Police Department shot an assailant armed with an edged weapon who threatened him and two other officers.
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When several children living in Covington, GA, heard that one of the officers with their department had suffered a severe wound when he was shot, they wanted to do something for him and his family. So they banded together and opened up a lemonade stand.
Read More →An officer with the Cheektowaga (NY) Police Department is being praised for rescuing a three-year-old girl from a hot car after the mother apparently overdosed on heroin.
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A jury said the officer used "unreasonable force" in the 2013 incident in which Officer Jairo Acosta—with the Los Banos (CA) Police Department—responded to a call of domestic violence in which 80-year-old Tan Lam said his 43-year-old son had assaulted him.
Read More →A judge has dismissed a retaliation and defamation lawsuit filed by a former New Jersey police officer who was fired following his arrest of State Assemblyman Paul Moriarty in 2012.
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