Policing Ourselves
Officer Jason Lawless, an Oklahoma police sniper, had one chance, one narrow window to save a 2-year-old girl who had been held hostage for hours by an armed man.…
Two Boston police officers underwent critical surgery after being shot by a lone gunman. The gunman was killed by other police officers who responded to the shooting.… officers were responding to a call about a fight between two roommates when one of the men, wearing ballistic body armor, opened fire with what is being described… as an assault rifle.…
…“The cop shot this morning died.”
How many times can one hear those or similar words and still go on working as a police officer in spite of it?
Shortly after I heard the news, my own wife texted an emoji to my phone. It was the one where the face is blowing a heart shaped kiss.
Without words, I knew she knew, and that she was thinking about me. She was concerned for me and for her own kids.…
A female Chicago police officer who was beaten to the point of hospitalization Wednesday morning says she had the option of lethal force but did not use it for fear of public backlash.
The officer was one of three beaten and then hospitalized after she “encountered a man that police allege was violent and under the influence of drugs.”…
During Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine claimed that stop-and-frisk “polarizes the relationship between police and communities.”
Fact check: FALSE.…
…Prosecutors in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have filed first-degree manslaughter charges against the white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street.…
…Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was troubled by the controversial shooting of Terence Crutcher, 40, by Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby last Friday because he looked like he did "everything he was supposed to do" but was killed anyway.
"I must tell you I watched the shooting in particular in Tulsa and that man was hands up. That man went to the car, hands up, put his hands on the car, I mean to me it looked like he did everything he was supposed to do," said Trump in remarks at a town hall style event addressing African-American issues in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.…
Terance Crutcher Just Finished 9 Year Sentence For Drug Trafficking, Prior Convictions For Resisting Arrest and Had Active Warrants… Now, while a prior record doesn’t show whether the shooting in this case was right or wrong, what his background does show is that he had a habit of resisting the police when stopped. …
No, Terance Crutcher Wasn’t Shot With His Hands Up And PCP Was Found In His Car…
Hillary Clinton spoke out Tuesday against the shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer last week in Tulsa, Oklahoma, calling on America to "tackle systemic racism."
"This horrible shooting--again. How many times do we have to see this in our country?" she told radio host Steve Harvey on his morning show.…
TULSA, Okla. – An attorney for a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man said the man ignored officers' commands, kept touching his pocket and was reaching through a window of his SUV when he was killed.…
…A five-year-old boy spent his fifth birthday party mourning the loss of his beloved dog after it was shot and killed with an assault rifle by an Oklahoma police officer - despite it being on the other side of a fence.…
A mother shot during the attack on police officers in Dallas said of the officers, “They were really heroes for us.” Shetamia Taylor said during an emotional press conference that the officers saved her life and the lives of her sons.…
In the face of all the ugliness of the last two days, maybe we need to see there's a some good kind people reaching out there.…
…a cowboy on a horse lassoed a fleeing bicycle thief in a WalMart parking lot in East Point, Oregon.
“I didn’t really think about nothin’ until after I caught him, and then I was like, ‘Gotcha!' …I don’t know about ‘Hero,’ but … I just did the right thing…”
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahomans whose assets are unjustly seized through the civil asset forfeiture process can recover their attorney fees under a new state law.
Gov. Mary Fallin on Thursday signed legislation passed by the House and Senate that allows for the recovery of attorney fees in forfeiture cases.…
Muskogee County, Ok. district attorney Orvil Loge told Gawker this afternoon that prosecutors will return $53,234 in seized assets to Eh Wah, a man who was pulled over in February while carrying the cash for a Burmese Christian rock band. Loge said his office also dropped a felony criminal charge against Eh Wah, who had been accused of “acquiring proceeds from drug activity.”…
…"The dad teared up a little and explained how he didn't have the money to afford a car seat right now and that he had been running into some tough times," Scaglione told ABC News today. "So I said, 'Hey, could you follow me to Walmart?' and he was a little shocked and asked me, 'For what?' I told him I'd be more than happy to buy the car seat for him."…
…Darien, who goes by "Deej," recently conquered his own personal villain: a brain tumor. Deej spent three weeks in Alfred I. duPont Hospital last summer. While he was there, he thought about his heroes — the real life ones back home at the Mount Holly Police Department.… couldn't engage in any rigorous physical activities, so he made his local police officers beaded key chains… the department got to show their appreciation by naming Deej an honorary police officer and superhero.… Wearing an Avengers t-shirt and cape, Deej was sworn in at a superhero-themed pizza party in the Mount Holly police station.…
Quick-thinking children on an Easter egg hunt form a human arrow to POINT to where suspected robbers are hiding from police helicopter pilot…
…“The deputy came on to my property when nobody was home,” Angie Laymon told KJRH. “When my German Shepherd did his job and approached the officer barking, the officer shot him.” …she and her children were at church when the shooting occurred. …arrived home to find their dog, Bruno, bleeding on the porch from a gunshot wound. …“There’s a note on the door that says the cops shot him…” …bullet shattered his shoulder… will likely need to have his leg amputated.…
During an impromptu February 29 news conference St. Landry’s Parrish Sheriff’s Captain Clay Higgins resigned his post, citing his refusal to cower to street gangs or “kneel to a…wanna-be black activist.”
His announcement came less than two weeks after Higgins released a video that named alleged members of the Gremlin street gang and referring to them as “animals” and “heathens” whom he was going to hunt down. …
A Krystal restaurant in Alabama has come under fire after it was alleged that its staff refused to service a local police officer.… …officer’s wife… posted about the incident to Facebook… post has gone viral with many people slamming the company…
H/t - Linked from somewhere, but I don't remember from whom.
Police are crediting a vigilant gun owner with saving the life of an Upper Darby [PA] cop Friday after he saw the officer being attacked and surrounded by a large group of teens.
"There were 40 kids. If it wasn't for the good Samaritan stepping forward, he'd have been dead meat," Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. "There's no doubt they would have attacked him."… "He had the gun in his hand, but he didn't point it at the kids, he just told them to back off"… kept the group of teens at bay until responding officers arrived…
…Klansman found himself in a bad situation at a rally gone bad. …crowd grew very hostile. …Klansman runs to the police for protection. …suddenly he doesn’t care about color, he cares about character. …Then look at the black cop. Stoic, determined, one-minded. He must be willing to protect…
…As the officer approached the house, he saw the family dog… pulled his gun and fired… missed the dog but hit… 4-year-old… in the leg… officer then ran back to his car and drove away.…
On October 10, Breitbart News reported that a concealed carry permit holder witnessed an armed robbery in progress at a Charleston, South Carolina, Waffle House and intervened by shooting and fatally wounding the suspect. … An officer responding to the scene praised the actions… a Waffle House employee commented… “He saved us, that’s what he did.” Then came October 12, and Waffle House released a statement in which they reaffirmed their gun-free policies…
On October 11 an Olive Garden restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri refused service to a uniformed police officer who walked into the business with his gun holstered on his hip. …
Sep 16 …While he was in prison he said "God if you are real turn my life around". He got out after serving a year and half. Has graduated bible college with perfect attendance and his strong in his church. This man wanted to pray for the officer's safety.…
Driving through Mississippi this morning I got pulled over for speeding. A huge black cop got out of the car. …"things are tough, but we're hanging in there and just trying to do the right thing and keep people safe...but it's scary".…
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