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A man who died after police officers in North Carolina's capital city repeatedly used stun guns on him died from "sudden cardiac arrest" related to cocaine intoxication and the police confrontation, according to the state's autopsy report released Wednesday. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner also labeled the Jan. 17 death of 32-year-old Darryl Tyree Williams a homicide. The autopsy report listed the cause of Williams’ death "as sudden cardiac arrest in the setting of cocaine intoxication, physical exertion, conducted energy weapon use, and physical restraint." A toxicology analysis in part detected cocaine and a chemical that's contained in...

A police officer in South Carolina is being praised after her quick-thinking helped a woman who mouthed "help me" during a traffic stop. Her alleged kidnapper was wanted in a shooting nearby, police said. The North Myrtle Beach Police Department said Officer Kayla Wallace was patrolling in the early morning hours of May 28 when she saw a white Jeep go through a red light and quickly pulled it over. Wallace saw a female driver and a male passenger. When the woman opened the door she appeared distressed. "I gave loud orders for her to close the door," the officer...

The city of Atlanta has approved funding for a controversial new police training center dubbed 'Cop City' by opponents. The 11-4 vote happened on Tuesday after hundreds of activists packed City Hall and spoke for hours in fierce opposition to the project, which they say will destroy the local environment and militarize the police. For about 14 hours, residents took to the podium to slam the $90 million project, saying it would be a gross misuse of public funds to build the huge facility in a large urban forest in a poor, majority black area of southeast of Atlanta. Six...

Shocking dashcam video shows South Carolina deputies getting into a shootout with a man who jumped out of a car and began firing after getting pulled over earlier this month. The dangerous gun battle began when deputies pulled the black Ford over along a highway. A second deputy had arrived on the scene to provide backup when he realized that the man in the passenger seat had a gun. That's when the passenger jumped out and began the shootout. Video shows the wild gun fight as one deputy is hit and another fires across the driver's seat, where the driver...

Yo, this is a pretty wild video out of Charleston County, South Carolina, and it tells you a whole lot about what police officers are faced with on a daily basis. This may seem like your everyday traffic stop — the car being pulled over for swerving — however, the man in the passenger seat is a convicted felon, and officers spoke with him for about five minutes before asking him to get out of the vehicle. Here's what happened when they did that (I'm going to warn you that while you don't see blood, the perp gets smoked in...

DeSantis on Friday shared a fundraiser for Penny's legal defense, calling him a "Good Samaritan" and criticizing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as a "pro-criminal" and "Soros-Funded" prosecutor. "We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left's pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens. We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny. Let’s show this Marine... America’s got his back," DeSantis tweeted.

Eric Garner is buried in Rosedale Cemetery, a sweeping expanse of land in Linden, New Jersey, located just across the river from Manhattan. His funeral was in July, after a white police officer choked him to death on Staten Island. Known around town as a peaceable soul, Garner had been accused of selling untaxed cigarettes. He had six children and a wife, but he did not have a weapon. He lived to the age of 43, and his last words were “I can’t breathe.” Despite a wealth of video evidence and a coroner’s report that labeled the incident a homicide,...

"Live updates: AG's office says 8 officers fired 94 shots at Jayland Walker in 6.7 seconds The eight police officers involved in the killing of Jayland Walker last summer will not be criminally charged, a special grand jury decided, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said Monday. Yost hosted a virtual press conference at 3:30 p.m. Monday, with Senior Assistant Attorneys General Anthony Pierson and Anthony Cillo. As of 4:30 p.m. Monday, High Street is closed between Bowery and State streets. Akron Metro RTA buses are still running but are detouring around the closure. Grand jury decision:No criminal charges for 8...

An 18-year-old Tallahassee resident charged with murder elicited gasps from a courtroom Friday during his bond hearing. Khalil Pugh, who was charged with felony murder, malice murder and vehicular homicide, flipped his middle fingers at the judge, according to WCTV, when his bond was revoked. Pugh allegedly crashed a silver sedan into a Thomasville, Georgia Walmart last Wednesday. According to a Thomasville Police Department report, the crash injured pedestrians at the retail store and killed Kenneth Kennedy, 66, of Monticello, Florida.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) demanded “swift” accountability this weekend for the death of Keenan Anderson in a confrontation with police before the facts were known — including whether Anderson was trying to hijack cars. Anderson, a 31-year-0ld teacher from Washington, DC, who happens to be a cousin of Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors, died Jan. 3 after being tased during a confrontation with Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers. The Los Angeles Times reported: The incident began Jan. 3 at 3:30 p.m. with a motorcycle officer arriving at what the LAPD characterized as a “felony hit-and-run” car crash at...

The suspect in a triple homicide in Riverside, who was shot and killed by deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Friday, has been identified as a 28-year-old man who used to be employed with the Virginia State Police. Authorities with the Riverside Police Department said that around 11 a.m. on Nov. 25, officers had been dispatched to a welfare check of a young a woman who appeared to be in distress while getting into a red Kia Soul with a man in the 11200 block of Price Court and leaving with him. While officers were responding, reports of...

Casey Anthony has blamed her father George for the 2008 murder of her daughter Caylee, claiming in her new documentary series that he killed her to cover up sexually abusing her. Anthony was infamously acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter in 2011 after a highly publicized trial during which she was dubbed the most hated woman in America. She has always denied killing Caylee, despite cadaver dogs picking up the traces of human remains in her vehicle. Caylee's skeletal remains were discovered on the family property in Orlando, Florida. Now, in her first sit-down interview, Casey appears in a three-part...

A California district superintendent recently announced that a high school football team was no longer allowed to display the Thin Blue Line at its games, but that didn’t stop Saugus High School players. When most of the team ran onto the field Friday night, the tradition of the Thin Blue Line Flag was absent. Two players then came onto the field carrying an American flag and a Thin Blue Line flag, even after Superintendent Mike Kuhlman announced they weren’t allowed to show the flag supporting law enforcement .. Kuhlman announced the decision to ban the team from displaying the flag...

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KHBS) – A police chase with a motorcyclist in Little Rock, Arkansas, earlier this month ended in flames. Arkansas State Police troopers tased the driver of a speeding motorcycle without knowing his backpack was filled with gasoline. Christopher Gaylor is in the hospital and expected to recover. He faces several charges, including felony fleeing, failure to register a vehicle and reckless driving. VIDEO AT LINK..............

Actress Susan Sarandon, an ardent leftist during her professional life who routinely retweets other ardent leftists, posted a message on social media akin to the message that actress Gina Carano posted in early 2021 that got her canceled. In early 2021, Carano, then starring in Disney’s “The Mandalorian,” posted a message on Instagram to illustrate her feelings about the hate directed toward political conservatives. She posted a photo with the caption: Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to...

FIREBALL! One minute you’re on your motorcycle with the wind in your hair, fleeing cops at over 100 miles per hour, and suddenly, BOOM! You look like a Buddhist monk with an ax to grind. Dash-cam video has surfaced of a highspeed chase on October 13 at roughly 1:11 a.m. involving Arkansas State Troopers and a man on a motorcycle who refused to pull over. A state trooper noticed the motorcycle didn’t have a license plate so the cop lit him up—oops, I mean turned on his police lights. The biker decided to hit the blast and a high-speed...

The military's equity chief once recommended a book to high school students that referred to 9/11 first responders as 'not human' and 'menaces.' This latest revelation comes as the Pentagon continued a probe into Kelisa Wing's tweets in which she used words such as 'Karen' and 'CAUdacity' to describe white people. According to Fox News, Wing recommended the 2015 book Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates while she represented the Pentagon on two occasions.

Far-left Portland city councilwoman accused of stolen valor after military record questioned A recent poll showed that 49 percent of likely voters said they’d vote for Gonzalez, a lawyer, and technology business owner, compared to 22 percent for Hardesty, an anti-police, pro-Antifa, one-term incumbent. In a city council meeting on Thursday, far-left Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who is running for reelection, was accused of stolen valor. Hardesty has also called on her challenger Rene Gonzalez to "denounce" The Post Millennial’s editor-at-large Andy Ngo for his coverage of her. The official Twitter account for Hardesty’s re-election posted on Thursday...

VIDEOS AT LINK..................... San Antonio Police, today, released video from an officer-involved shooting that occurred on Sunday, October 2, 2022. Below is a brief synopsis of the critical incident: At around 10:30 p.m. Sunday evening, an officer handling a disturbance at the McDonald’s at 11700 Blanco Road noticed a vehicle in the parking lot he believed had fled from him during an attempted stop the night before. The vehicle, which was not related to the disturbance call, was occupied by a male, 17-year-old driver driver, and a female passenger. The Officer abruptly opened the driver’s door and ordered the driver...