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Call it Bagelgate. The controversy involves a Larksville coffee shop, a Plymouth police officer and a $1.30 bagel. On Wednesday afternoon, witnesses say an on-duty officer in a Plymouth police sport utility vehicle held up the drive-through lane of the Curry Donuts on Route 11 waiting for a toasted bagel with a coffee he was given free. When told he had to pay for the bagel, the officer claimed he didn't have his wallet, said "If it's not free, I don't want it" and drove off. The bagel went to waste. The flap over the bagel has placed a spotlight...

Call it Bagelgate. The controversy involves a Larksville coffee shop, a Plymouth police officer and a $1.30 bagel. On Wednesday afternoon, witnesses say an on-duty officer in a Plymouth police sport utility vehicle held up the drive-through lane of the Curry Donuts on Route 11 waiting for a toasted bagel with a coffee he was given free. When told he had to pay for the bagel, the officer claimed he didn't have his wallet, said "If it's not free, I don't want it" and drove off. The bagel went to waste. The flap over the bagel has placed a spotlight...

Perhaps the Garden State should switch its nickname to the Barnyard State. A New Jersey judge has dismissed animal cruelty charges against a cop accused of committing a sex act with cows, saying a grand jury had no way of knowing whether the animals were "tormented." Moorestown police officer Robert Melia, who is currently suspended, allegedly stuck his penis in the mouths of five calves in Southampton in 2006. Since New Jersey currently has no law explicitly banning such an act, prosecutors in Burlington county brought animal cruelty charges against Melia, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. "If the cow had...

BOLLING RECEIVES ENDORSEMENT OF FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE -Law enforcement coalition cites Bolling's dedication to protecting the citizens of Virginia- RICHMOND - Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling has received the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police. Bolling received the endorsement at a press conference earlier today at the State Capitol with FOP President P. Thomas Edwards, Bob McDonnell, Ken Cuccinelli and members of the law enforcement community "I am very pleased that the Fraternal Order of Police has chosen to endorse my re-election as Virginia's Lieutenant Governor. Throughout my career in public service I have consistently stood in support of...

Fraternal Order of Police Endorses Bob McDonnell for Governor Roughly 8000 members; 50 lodges across Virginia -In Just Last Month McDonnell Endorsed by: The Virginia Farm Bureau Federation; Virginia Realtors; Virginia Credit Unions; National Federation of Independent Business; National Rifle Association; Fairfax Chamber of Commerce NOVABizPAC; Fraternal Order of Police- RICHMOND- Bob McDonnell, Republican gubernatorial nominee and former Attorney General of Virginia, was endorsed today by the Fraternal Order of Police in his campaign for governor. The announcement was made during a press conference in Richmond this morning. The FOP is the voice of our nation’s law enforcement officers. Virginia’s...

GLENROCK, Wyo. - A 76-year-old Wyoming man shot with a Taser by police while driving an antique tractor in a small-town parade says it hurt but he's OK. Retired truck driver Bud Grose of Glenrock told The Associated Press in a telephone interview on Wednesday that he has a heart condition but didn't require any medical attention. Investigators say police in Glenrock used a Taser on the man after he disobeyed orders. They say the tractor may have hit a car. Two officers were placed on paid leave and state agents are investigating, but the police chief says it doesn't...

Senior citizen Bud Grose was chased and tasered -- five different times -- by two Wyoming police officers on August 1. The investigation has just concluded with the firing of the two officers. The small town of Glenrock, Wyoming was shocked and horrified after one of its residents was chased and tasered by police during an annual celebration of community arts and life this past summer. It was nearing the end of the Deer Creek Days annual parade held on Aug. 1 when two officers chased and tasered senior citizen, Bud Grose. Grose was driving an antique tractor in the...

4 Police Officers Shot in NJ The Associated Press LAKEWOOD, N.J. - Four Lakewood police officers have been shot executing a search warrant in New Jersey. Deputy Chief Michael Mohel (mohl) says members of the tactical unit were serving a no-knock narcotics and weapons warrant around 2:25 a.m. Thursday when Jamie Gonzalez opened fire

A media advisory has gone out saying that a "major Virginia organization" is going to be endorsing Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli tomorrow. WHEN: Thursday, September 24th at 9AM WHERE: House Briefing Room in the General Assembly Building in Richmond Virtucon has heard via a leak (note: not from any of these campaigns) that this will be the Fraternal Order of Police, but has yet to confirm it formally. Coming on the heels of today's Fairfax Chamber of Commerce endorsement of McDonnell, I'd hazard to say that the old winning coalition assembled by Govs. George Allen and Jim...

A white Philadelphia police officer who came to work with his hair in cornrows was ordered by a superior to get a haircut, even though black colleagues wear the same type of braids. The Philadelphia Daily News reported Monday that Officer Thomas Strain was put on desk duty earlier this month because of the hairstyle. A police spokesman, Lt. Frank Vanore, said Strain's boss didn't feel the braids were "professional."

A Philadelphia man was shot to death after trying to rob an off-duty cop Sunday, according to police. It happened around 2a.m. in the 5800 block of Catherine Streets in West Philadelphia. An off duty officer who was headed home after working the night shift at the 19th District, was approached by two men who announced they were going to rob him, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. One of the men put a gun to the officer's chest. The officer, who had his gun with him, fired one shot at the suspect who later died at the Hospital of the...

To get booted off the street, a police officer has to do something pretty serious - like shoot a suspect or be accused of brutality. But in the 35th District, which covers Logan, Olney and adjacent neighborhoods, apparently a hairdo will do it. A cop who got cornrows was ordered off the street and kept on desk duty for two days until he cut his braids off, sources said. While dozens of black officers across the city wear cornrows, Officer Thomas Strain is white. So when the five-year veteran showed up for work Sept. 3 with the traditionally black hairstyle,...

I’m not kidding, and she certainly seems determined. The mayor of Wellford, S.C. has instituted a policy banning law enforcement from chasing criminal suspects. She’s not just eliminating vehicle chases, but has banned foot pursuits as well. Maybe the mayor of Wellford has a line on a new tractor beam? Watch the video and you may get the impression she can order one online.

DEARBORN, Mich. -- A police officer who admitted taking marijuana from criminal suspects and baked it into brownies with his wife will avoid criminal charges. The police department's decision not to pursue a case against former policeman Edward Sanchez left a bad taste in the mouth of at least one city official, who vowed to investigate. "If you're a cop and you're arresting people and you're confiscating the marijuana and keeping it yourself, that's bad. That's real bad," said City Councilman Doug Thomas. Sanchez, who resigned last year from the department in this Detroit suburb, declined comment Wednesday. Police Commander...

LACONIA – Police said a Laconia woman obsessed with a city police officer attempted to set fire to his house while his family was sleeping. Bail was set at $100,000 cash yesterday for Patricia Halsey-Carter, 41, of 33 Avery St., who works at the local Dunkin' Donuts. She is charged with four counts of arson, violation and contempt of a protective order and criminal mischief.

This story ran a while back on freerepublic (May 2007), but no one posted the YouTube video that shows news anchors losing composure after hearing the 911 audio of a cop who apparently confiscated pot during an arrest, took it home, baked it, consumed it with his girlfriend, and then freaked out. Consider it a Friday humor break. Have a good weekend all! YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnZb5wi_jsU&feature=related Original article here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832141/posts

Four former members of an now-disbanded Chicago police unit admitted Friday to taking part in a brazen scheme in which they barged into homes and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from suspected drug dealers and others—once after withholding insulin from a diabetic man until he told them where to find the cash. Former police officers Bart Maka, Guadalupe Salinas, Brian Pratscher pleaded guilty to felony theft, and former officer Donovan Markiewicz pleaded guilty to official misconduct, in deals that called for each to be sentenced to six months in jail and various terms of probation in exchange for their...

As a high-ranking U.S. anti-drug official, Richard Padilla Cramer held front-line posts in the war on Mexico's murderous cartels. He led an office of two dozen agents in Arizona and was the attache for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Guadalajara. While in Mexico... Cramer also served as a secret ally of drug lords.... allegedly advised traffickers on law enforcement tactics and pulled secret files to help them identify turncoats. He charged $2,000 for a Drug Enforcement Administration document that was sent to a suspect in Miami.... But the investigation revealed that he worked for "a very high-level drug lord," the...

Four former Chicago police officers implicated in the Special Operations Section scandal have been charged in the case, a sign that the state and federal probes of one of the city's biggest police corruption scandals ever is coming to a head, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation.

(snip) National interest in the Weather Underground was revived during last year’s presidential campaign, when Republicans and conservative bloggers tried to smear Barack Obama for his ties to the group’s former leaders, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. A married couple now comfortably ensconced in the ranks of Chicago’s liberal intelligentsia, Ayers and Dohrn were early political patrons of Obama’s, hosting a campaign event for the future president in 1995 when he ran for the Illinois state Senate. Ayers and Dohrn assert today that the group deliberately avoided killing people in a campaign of “symbolic” bombings of empty government buildings. They...

VIDEO At Link HERE .A Houston man was handcuffed and assaulted by cops for posting anti-Obama flyers around his town, actions described as “criminal vandalism” by police and some local residents, despite the fact that giant pro-Obama murals are openly displayed in the same neighborhood for all to see. 21-year-old Mark Fuhre, an Alex Jones Show listener, decided to post the flyers even though the Infowars Obama Joker Poster Contest had ended, because he wanted to alert his neighbors to the cult of personality being manufactured around Obama and how the establishment is stifling any criticism of the President by...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Charleston Mayor Danny Jones revealed at a Sunday evening news conference that "there's every reason to believe" friendly fire killed Patrolman Jerry Jones. Patrolman Jones was shot and killed during a chase that ended in the Quick area of Kanawha County after 1 a.m. Sunday morning. Mayor Danny Jones says police can't prove it at this point, but they believe the shot that killed Patrolman Jones came from one of the city's officers. Mayor Jones says they are not sure which gun the bullet came from, but police believe the suspect during the chase was "armed...

104 Agents, basically the size of a military company (100 men) and these guys just can not seem to maintain control over their weapons. Their patrol rifles are stolen, their pistols are stolen and when directed to secure them with handcuffs, an agent shoots himself when he triggerlocks a loaded pistol. Really, these guys qualify for the Gomer Battalion in any Army in the world.

An officer who accidentally shot and killed a robbery victim last week was involved in another shooting this morning, this time while off-duty at an East Side restaurant. Officer William Karman had just gotten off work and was eating breakfast with relatives at La Gardenia Mexican Restaurant in the 1800 block of North Pine Street around 9 a.m. when two armed men entered an adjoining room and ordered a cashier to give them money, according to Police Chief William McManus. A patron tapped Karman, who was in uniform, and told him about the ongoing robbery. So Karman stood up, told...

A San Antonio police officer fatally shot a suspected robber outside of a Northeast Side gas station early Tuesday morning, authorities said. Julio Molinar, 19, died at 3:15 a.m. at Brooke Army Medical Center, where he was taken transported he was shot by a probationary officer in the parking lot of a Valero gas station in the 2300 block of Northeast Loop 410 at Starcrest Drive, according to a police department press release. Officer Michael Ruiz, who graduated from the police academy five months ago, has been placed on administrative duty pending the shooting team's investigation of the incident, the...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana police officer who wrote on his Facebook page that there should be a law allowing police to take people to jail for being "stupid" has resigned.

A 31-year-old San Antonio police officer was indicted Wednesday on a child assault charge, the result of an investigation that lasted more than a year after he allegedly whipped his 9-year-old son. Patrolman Juan M. Delgado, a seven-year veteran of the Police Department, was initially being investigated for felony injury to a child, but grand jurors opted to indict him on a Class A misdemeanor assault charge, according to prosecutors. If convicted, Delgado faces up to a year in jail. Delgado agreed to surrender today during an arraignment set for this morning, prosecutors said. Meanwhile, the officer remains on administrative...

Bozeman police officer resigns over Facebook comments Reporting from Z7 in Bozeman A Bozeman police officer embroiled in controversy over comments he posted on his Facebook page has resigned. Cody Anderson turned in his resignation Wednesday, Bozeman City Manager Chris Kukulski said at Thursday's weekly city press conference. The resignation went into effect Wednesday. Anderson resigned because he thought it was in the best interest of the police department in light of the controversial comments he posted on this Facebook page, Kukulski said, adding that he agreed with Anderson's decision. Anderson's decision to resign was his alone and he was...

A school security officer in Virginia who told a protester opposing President Obama's health-care plan that America is "no more" remains employed, but is now under investigation because of his statements, according to his school district. "I have to say, I've seen the video. We do not condone what the officer did say," Paul Regnier, the coordinator of communications and community relations for Fairfax County Public Schools told WND today. WND reported earlier when the YouTube video showing school Security Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. objecting to a protest sign carried at a town-hall meeting held by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va....

ERICHO, Ark. (AP) -- It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn't hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police and their speed traps. The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court.

GLENROCK, Wyo. — Bud Grose seemed like the last person who should attract the attention of police when the 76-year-old retiree hopped on his antique tractor and rumbled through the annual parade in this small Wyoming town. But what was supposed to be a day of fun at an end-of-summer festival ended abruptly when police shot Grose with a Taser in a dispute about where to end the parade route. The incident nearly incited a riot as outraged neighbors rushed to his defense. Now residents of this tight-knit town of 2,400 are seething over what they see as police brutality,...

Officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. didn't agree with a sign a protester carried at Jim Moran's town hall in Reston, VA last week. Cheeks told the protester he would charge him with trespassing (of all things) if he didn't take down the sign because it had a picture on it. When the protester questioned the officer, Cheeks responded, "If I told you once to take it down and you put it back up then I can charge you with whatever I want to charge you with." The protester didn't back down, saying, "This is America. This used to be America." Officer...

Woah!... This was the scene outside Rep. Jim Moran's town hall meeting on Tuesday night. Today's Hope and Change... Officer Cheeks tells some town hall protesters to put away their signs or he'll "charge them with trespassing or whatever he wants." This video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran's (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Deathcare (Howie Dean was there too) held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA.

Here is another short video in which a person who opposes President Obama has his rights threatened. This time it is obnoxious cop from Virgina who warns an anti-Obama protester, that is ain't America no more.

Yes, it’s another episode of “Name That Party,” where our contestant is a criminal Democrat in the news that somehow, mysteriously finds the Old Media conveniently forgetting to mention that he is, indeed, a Democrat. This time it’s former Starr County, Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra who was handed a five-year sentence for drug trafficking this week. Guerra is the second Starr County Sheriff in a row to go to jail for corruption. The Old Media dutifully reported this conviction, to be sure. It was reported that Guerra was up on harsher charges, how he had those reduced, it was also...

You may remember the video of the police officer who tried to deny the man attending Moran's town hall meeting his right to carry his sign because he didn't like the picture on it. I wrote to the Fairfax County Police to complain about this and I received a reply today. Here is the reply. My original message follows: Wesley Cheeks is NOT a Fairfax County police officer, he is a security officer employed by the Fairfax County Public Schools. You may go to http://www.fcps.edu to contact the School's Department of Communication and Community Outreach concerning this matter. They may...

This used to be America," argued a protester outside a health-care town hall meeting in Reston, Va., after a security officer threatened him with arrest for holding up a sign with a picture critical of Barack Obama. The officer's response? "It ain't no more, OK?"

Barbara Hunter, Asst Superintendent for Communications and Community Outreach, Fairfax County, VA School system: BMHunter1@fcps.edu, 8115 Gatehouse Road Suite 5100 Falls Church, VA 22042 Phone: 571.423.1200 Fax: 571.423.1207

A 52-year-old former police officer was arrested after police said he tried to pass himself off as a high school student. Police said Christopher Schildt, 52, a retired police officer, gained access to Waterford High School Thursday morning. They said Schildt tried to pass himself off as an 18-year-old student and sat in a class. School officials said they thought Schildt, who looks youthful for his age, was a transfer student from Florida. Schildt told school officials he was registering his 18-year-old nephew, who had the same name and the alleged teen had medical issues and would appear older.

OBAMA SUPPORTER, PEACE OFFICER, SHOWS HOW OBAMALAND USSA (UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA) WILL BE GOVERNED BY OBAMA THUGS IN OR OUT OF UNIFORM. THIS VIDEO SHOWS UNBELIEVALBE TRAMPLING OF OUR RIGHTS ON THE SAY SO OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WHO STATES HE WILL INVENT ANY CHARGE HE LIKES TO ENFORCE HIS POINT OF VIEW. Law? Constitution? What is that all about? I make the rules here! I support O bama and will make sure you obey!

"This used to be America," argued a protester outside a health-care town hall meeting in Reston, Va., after a police officer threatened him with arrest for holding up a sign with a picture critical of Barack Obama. The officer's response? "It ain't no more, OK?" A video of the town hall held earlier this week by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., shows an unnamed protester standing on school grounds carrying a sign that read "Organizing for National Socialist Health Care – The Final Solution" and depicted Barack Obama in the Joker's makeup. Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. then told the protester that...

DissentFromDayOne's YouTube description: This video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran's (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Deathcare held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA. Many people were left outside when the school filled to capacity. School security officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. did not like my anti-Obamacare poster which used one of the gone-viral "Joker" graphics. When I said to Officer Cheeks, "This used to be America!" his response was: "It ain't no more, OK?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIKPKjl0-pg&feature=player_embedded

"This used to be America," argued a protester outside a health-care town hall meeting in Reston, Va., after a police officer threatened him with arrest for holding up a sign with a picture critical of Barack Obama. The officer's response? "It ain't no more, OK?" A video of the town hall held earlier this week by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., shows an unnamed protester standing on school grounds carrying a sign that read "Organizing for National Socialist Health Care – The Final Solution" and depicted Barack Obama in the Joker's makeup. Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. then told the protester that...

Lots of outrageously outraged e-mails flowing in about this, although it’s interesting to me mainly as a First Amendment curio. The footage comes from Jim Moran’s health-care town hall on Tuesday night. The question: Can a congressman bar signs, or certain types of signs, from an event at which he’s speaking? The answer (and the ambiguity) turns, I assume, on whether the event is “public” or “private.” It’s a public school and Moran is very much a public official, but recall that Claire McCaskill evidently got away with imposing a “no signs” policy at her own town hall where the...

Many people were left outside when the school filled to capacity. School security officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. did not like my anti-Obamacare poster which used one of the gone-viral "Joker" graphics. When protester said to Officer Cheeks, "This used to be America!" his response was: "It ain't no more, OK?

"During the Jim Moran Townhall, protesters were outside gathering to go in. A citizen reporter was being harassed by a local Police officer about his Obamacare sign. "

Police are removing valuables from unlocked cars to shock motorists into being more careful. Officers in London are taking everything from handbags to satnavs, and leaving a note telling drivers their property is at a local police station.

AN DIEGO - A rookie San Diego police officer, arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public this past weekend after she supposedly pulled out her gun at a Carlsbad nightspot, is on administrative leave. Christine M. Thurston, 23, pulled out her gun while off-duty at Hennessey's Tavern on Friday evening, prompting a manager to call 911, Carlsbad police spokeswoman Lynn Diamond said. Before officers arrived at the Roosevelt Street bar, someone had taken Thurston's gun away, and bouncers had put her outside, Diamond said. Thurston was arrested on suspicion of public drunkenness, a misdemeanor. Diamond said there was no...

While teachers across Frederick County prepared their classrooms last week, they were not the only ones moving back into the schools. Ten school resource officers moved into their offices at the nine county high schools and Heather Ridge School, said Sgt. Mark Landahl, who supervises the unit for the Frederick County Sheriff's Office. The officers worked on patrol during the summer months.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Marion County Sheriff's deputies arrested one of their own after an undercover operation. Now, a deputy who worked as a guard at the jail, is himself behind bars. "You know there is 775 deputy sheriff's in this department full time police officers and when one gets out of line the other 774 don't care for it," Col. John Layton with the Marion Co. Sheriff's Department said, When women complained about that one sheriff's deputy, Paul Wagner, fellow deputies began a month long investigation. Wagner worked part-time security at a Speedway gas station on the city's east side....