At least 25 officers were injured in Memphis in a riot sparked when United States Marshals shot and killed a man with multiple warrants Wednesday.
Read More →The 2018 use-of-force report shows a second year of rising attacks on officers. That year, officers were attacked 784 times, a 6-percent increase over 2017 when there were 741 attacks on officers. In 2016, there were about 590 such attacks.
Read More →A four-year veteran with the Sour Lake (TX) Police Department was severely beaten by a 45-year-old Kentucky man who then stole his police SUV and eluded officers until he was eventually apprehended and arrested.
Read More →A man accused of attacking a Honolulu police officer on Sunday has been charged with first-degree assault of a law enforcement officer, first-degree attempted theft and contempt of court.
Read More →A New Hampshire woman is accused of kicking and spitting at an officer with the Dover Police Department as he attempted to detain her following a report of domestic disturbance at a local bar.
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Croswell allegedly asked the officer for help with her shoes, then tackled, punched, and bit the officer while slipping out of her handcuffs.
Read More →The policy came to light when KTTH was tipped off to an incident, where a King County Sheriff’s deputy was kicked in the groin by a 20-year-old female suspect in tall leather boots. She was not charged with assault.
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“(I) tried to pull him to the ground and as I grabbed his arm the other one had the 2X2 [4-foot board] in it and that’s when I got struck in the head. It hurt and after we wrestled I could see my face was bleeding,” said Officer Clark.
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The man—identified as 26-year-old Daniel Ward—attacked an officer in a Liverpool suburb as he was being arrested on suspicion of assault in connection to a robbery earlier in the year.
Read More →Officer Grahn and a civilian worked to clear the street when they were attacked with the chemical device. The gas reportedly caused the officer to lose consciousness.
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