Associated PressSANTAN, Ariz. — The Gila River Indian Community has issued a temporary ban on dances after a tribal police officer was fatally shot and another wounded while responding to a reported disturbance at a Santan home, tribal officials said Sunday.Stephen Roe Lewis, governor of...
By Jessica SchladebeckNew York Daily NewsOKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. — A Florida sheriff’s deputy has been fired over the death of Roger Fortson, a Black airman who was fatally shot in the doorway of his apartment.Fortson, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt...
By Andy Mannix and Jeff HargartenStar TribuneMINNEAPOLIS — The fatal shooting of Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell on Thursday adds to a grim tally.Since 2021, the Minneapolis Police Department has counted about 200 assaults on its police force, according to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension...
Associated PressNEWARK, N.J. — A former New Jersey police officer has been sentenced to a total of 27 years in prison in the shooting death of one man and the wounding of another during a high-speed car chase 5 1/2 years ago in the city...
By Mara H. GottfriedPioneer PressST. PAUL, Minn. — Something wasn’t right as Ramsey County Sheriff’s Deputy Joe Kill pursued a vehicle that wouldn’t pull over. He could feel it.The driver darkened the vehicle’s headlights and kept turning left onto St. Paul’s streets, in a square...
By Sarah RoebuckPolice1CHICAGO — The National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) announced the 2024 recipient for the National School Resource Officer of the Year Award.Officer Armando Dominguez of the Summit (Illinois) Police Department has been awarded the 2024 Floyd Ledbetter National School Resource Officer,...
By Thomas TracyNew York Daily NewsNEW YORK — Remote-controlled drones equipped with flotation devices will be helping New York City lifeguards rescue swimmers in distress this summer season, city officials said Saturday.The addition of drones comes as the city faces staff shortages among lifeguards that...
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By Julianna O’ClairThe Denver PostTHORNTON, Colo. — The Thornton Police Department has released partial body camera footage, still images and radio recordings from an incident in April during which police killed two people in Lakewood after they say one of them fired on officers.The footage,...
By Paloma ChavezThe Charlotte ObserverWHEAT RIDGE, Colo. — Drug paraphernalia in “plain sight” led a police officer to a venomous discovery while conducting a car search, Colorado officials said.While checking the car on May 26, the officer found a plastic bin, body camera footage from...
