Tag: Anti-Police Sentiment: Page 23

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Uniformed North Carolina Deputy Rejected from Jewelry Store for Duty Weapon

A deputy with the Iredell County Sheriff's Office was turned away from a national jewelry store chain as he attempted to pick up his fiancé's engagement ring. The reason: the uniformed law enforcement officer was wearing his duty weapon.

June 6, 2019

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Organizers Reverse Ban on Uniformed Officers Marching in CA Pride Parade

The Sacramento LGBT Community Center had previously asked city officers not to participate in uniform in the upcoming gay pride parade.

June 6, 2019

Patrol

Florida Teens Arrested for Spitting in Officer's Food

Three teenage restaurant employees have been fired and arrested after being discovered to have spat into the food they were preparing for two uniformed deputies in late April.

May 7, 2019

Patrol

Student's Depiction of a Pig in a Police Uniform Removed from Art Show

An Ohio high school student who created an image of a pig in a police uniform for a submission to an annual art show has had their work removed from view.

May 6, 2019

Training

Video: Police Union President Blasts Portland City Council for Anti-Cop Sentiment

Turner said the reason PPB is understaffed is because of the "intense anti-police sentiment in our city, that city council seems to share."

April 10, 2019

Patrol

Mob Reportedly Forces Chicago Officers to Release Suspect

Scanner audio captured an officer’s account of what happened at the scene, CWBChicago reports: “Ten people surrounded me, indicating that they had firearms. And one person pulled him away from me, holding his waist, indicating that he would use a firearm against me.”

March 20, 2019

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California University Students Call for Disarming Campus Police

Student government representatives at the University of California Santa Barbara passed a resolution Wednesday calling for the disarming of its campus police force.

March 14, 2019

Patrol

Free Speech, Violent Threats, and Learning from a Misguided Professor

Professor Joshua Clover—who teaches English and comparative literature at University of California at Davis, and according to his official bio, specializes in Marxism and "the end of capitalism"—said in an interview published in early 2016, "People think that cops need to be reformed. They need to be killed."

March 1, 2019

Patrol

Nashville Chief: "Our City Needs More Police Officers"

The chief of the Nashville Metro Police Department took to Twitter late last week to plead for citizens to thank a police officer, appreciate the difficulty of their jobs, and understand that despite being fewer in numbers officers are being asked to do more and more every day.

February 21, 2019

Patrol

Protesters "Occupy" Border Patrol Museum, Deface Fallen Officer Memorial

Dozens of demonstrators stormed into the National Border Patrol Museum outside of El Paso, Texas, reportedly defacing the memorial in that facility dedicated to fallen Border Patrol Officers.

February 19, 2019

Patrol

Nashville Police Pulling Harassed SROs from Schools

Two of the most troubled schools in Nashville, Tennessee will soon be without school resource officers after those SROs reported being verbally harassed on a daily basis.

February 14, 2019

Point of Law

Judge Approves Order for Major Reforms at Chicago Police Department

The consent decree requires officers to document each time they draw their weapons—even if they don't actually fire—and tightens instances in which officers may deploy TASERs. It also requires the department to publish use-of-force data on a monthly basis.

February 1, 2019