An officer with the Plano (TX) Police Department fatally shot a female subject who had stabbed him with an edged weapon as he was attempting to assist her after a vehicle collision early Thursday morning.
An officer with the Louisville (KY) Police Department will reportedly be fired on Friday after his involvement in the fatal shooting of a woman at her apartment earlier this year.
Police Union spokesman Champion says Mayor Bottoms is part of the morale problem. "They're just fed up. I mean, their mayor has come out and said everything that they used to do with use of force is not valid—'Don't do it'—so I don't know how we defend ourselves when people want to fight us," he said.
An officer with the Phoenix Police Department was seen retreating around her patrol vehicle and attempting to create distance between herself and a knife-wielding man before she was forced to fire her service weapon in her own defense.
If convicted, Rolfe is facing the possibility of the death penalty or life in prison.
Video footage released by the Atlanta Police Department shows officers talking for nearly half an hour with Rayshard Brooks before he was fatally shot during a confrontation after he was found sleeping in the drive-through lane of a local fast food restaurant.
Officers with the Fullerton (CA) Police Department fatally shot a knife-wielding man on Wednesday night after he refused to comply with commands to drop the weapon, and instead stabbed a K-9 at the scene.
An officer with the Columbus (OH) Division of Police was shot and critically wounded during a response to a disturbance call at a home early Thursday morning.
The driver of a tractor-trailer truck who shot at New York deputies during a wild overnight vehicle pursuit was killed in an armed confrontation with law enforcement officers after the chase ended.
An officer with the Grand Forks (ND) Police Department was shot and killed and a deputy with the Grand Forks County Sheriff's Office was wounded during an eviction Wednesday afternoon.