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Newsby Staff WriterApril 29, 2021

NYPD Ends Test of Robot Police Dog

Police officials said the robot's purpose was to take police officers out of harm's way and that it was actually cheaper than other robots already in use.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 28, 2021

Woman Charged with Killing NYPD Officer while DUI Recorded Anti-Police Podcast Hours Before

Jessica Beauvais, 32, had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit and was combative with police when she was captured after allegedly slamming into highway officer Anastasios Tsakos, 43, as he directed traffic on the Long Island Expressway around 2 a.m. Tuesday.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 27, 2021

LAPD Officer Asks to Speak with LeBron James About Anti-Police Comments

"Instead of apologizing, you deflected," Officer Deon Joseph wrote. "You said you took your tweet down because you did not want it to be used for hate, when the tweet itself was the embodiment of hatred, rooted in a lack of understanding of the danger of the situation."

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 22, 2021

Minneapolis Park Board Votes to Expel Troopers from Shared Office Space

"Over the last week or so we've been having a lot of unrest in our city," Commissioner Londel French said. "A lot of the folks that have been at the heart of putting that unrest down or stifling the protesters have been, in Minneapolis, the Minnesota State Patrol."

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 16, 2021

Publishing Company Refuses to Distribute Wounded Louisville Officer's Book on Breonna Taylor Shooting

Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly fired six rounds during the March 13, 2020, attempted search of Taylor's apartment, shooting Taylor. He had been shot in the thigh, severing his femoral artery, seconds earlier by Taylor's boyfreind, Kenneth Walker, who later said he thought intruders were breaking in.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 14, 2021

Portland Police Declare Riot, Union Building Set on Fire

Police said someone in the crowd then used an unknown accelerant on the wooden framing around a door of the building, then lit it on fire.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 8, 2021

NYPD Officer's Personal Car Torched in Coney Island

The 2002 BMW convertible had an NYPD “restricted parking permit” displayed on its windshield.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 5, 2021

Atlanta Mayor Announces Plan to Hire 250 Officers

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said 90 police recruits are currently in the pipeline, and that she is working with the City Council to enact a retention bonus for officers. The department is about 400 officers under its authorized level.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 30, 2021

MN Teacher Chains Herself to Courthouse Fence in Protest During Chauvin Trial

Kaia Hirt chained herself to a metal fence outside the Hennepin County Government Center on Monday evening in a protest pushing for police reform as the Derek Chauvin murder trial proceeded inside.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 12, 2021

Kentucky Senate Passes Bill That Could Criminalize Taunting Officers

Under the legislation, anyone who "accosts, insults, taunts, or challenges a law enforcement officer with offensive or derisive words, or by gestures or other physical contact, that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response" would be guilty of a misdemeanor and face up to 90 days in jail and fines.

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