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ATLANTA -- UPDATE: Federal prosecutors have recommended sentences of 121 months for Junnier and 151 months for Smith. D.A. Paul Howard has indicated he would go along with the federal prosecutors recommendation. A formal sentencing hearing will be held at a later date. Two police officers pleaded guilty today to federal and state charges in the shooting death of a 92-year-old Atlanta woman during a botched drug raid last fall. A third officer still faces charges in the woman's death. Forty-year-old Gregg Junnier, who retired from the Atlanta police force in January, and 35-year-old Officer J.R. Smith pleaded guilty to...

(WSB Radio) Fulton County's top prosecutor plans to seek charges against several current and former Atlanta police officers in the fatal shooting of an elderly Atlanta woman. WSB's Veronica Waters reports lawyers for three officers have been informed that Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard will take the case of Kathryn Johnston's shooting before a grand jury February 26. The proposed indictment would include 17 charges, including felony murder, burglary, aggravated assault, making false statements, violation of oath of office and criminal solicitation. Newly retired Atlanta police officer Gregg Junnier has been cooperating with the federally-led joint investigation into...

New York’s anti-cop forces have roared back to life thanks to a fatal police shooting of an unarmed man a week ago. The press is once again fawning over Al Sharpton, Herbert Daughtry, Charles Barron, and sundry other hate-mongers in and out of city government as they accuse the police of widespread mistreatment of blacks and issue barely veiled threats of riots if they do not get “justice.” The allegation that last weekend’s shooting was racially motivated is preposterous. A group of undercover officers working in a gun- and drug-plagued strip joint in Queens had good reason to believe that...

Five days after an elderly woman was killed in a gun battle that left three officers wounded, Atlanta police chief Richard Pennington said Sunday night his department will review its policy on "no knock" warrants and its use of confidential informants. Speaking for the first time since the Tuesday night shooting death of Kathryn Johnston at her home in northwest Atlanta, Pennington said his office "will turn over every stone to make sure we get to the reason why this tragic incident happened." Atlanta police Chief Richard Pennington says the policy on 'no knock' warrants will be reviewed. Pennington provided...

NEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg was "deeply disturbed" by the barrage of gunfire unleashed by officers in a weekend shooting that killed a groom on his wedding day, the mayor said Monday. "I can tell you that it is to me unacceptable or inexplicable how you can have 50-odd shots fired, but that's up to the investigation to find out what really happened," Bloomberg said after meeting with community leaders at City Hall. Bloomberg was joined by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Charles Rangel (news, bio, voting record) and several other officials at the meeting....

JAMAICA, N.Y., Nov. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.) of the Sixth Congressional District, released the following statement today on the police shooting of Sean Bell, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield: "Just after 4:00 a.m. yesterday morning, Saturday, November 25, 2006, a horrible, inexplicable tragedy occurred. Five police officers fired at least 50 rounds into an automobile driven by 23 year-old Sean Bell, who, along with two passengers, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, were leaving Mr. Bell's bachelor party at a nearby nightclub. Mr. Bell, a father of two daughters - three years-old and five months-old -...

A fugitive gunman accused of killing a Florida sheriff’s deputy was shot 68 times by SWAT team officers who found him hiding in the woods, according to autopsy results. Police fired 110 shots at Angilo Freeland, 27, the target of a massive manhunt in central Florida following the shooting death of Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Matt Williams Thursday. “That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.

(CNSNews.com) - Police in Antioch, Calif., shot and killed a man this week when he allegedly advanced on them with a carving knife and a meat fork. Although a bullet killed 27-year-old Scott Dittman, it might not have happened if police could have used a TASER instead of a gun, a law enforcement lobbying group said on Friday. The Law Enforcement Alliance of America calls Dittman's shooting the nation's "first real TASER death," and it pins the blame on the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, which released a report in October, warning about the rise in Taser-related deaths.

Police in Kenosha County, Wisconsin apparently killed a young man and the police are stonewalling any investigation. It all smells fishy and you never know who to believe. I just hate to see corruption of any kind and It appears this kid did not have his hand on the officers weapon.

A police officer shot and seriously wounded a bank robbery suspect at an Oceanside intersection Wednesday, officials said. The shooting happened at Bartlett Avenue and Mesa Drive in Oceanside in the late morning, according to police. Emergency personnel took the wounded man to Scripps Mercy Hospital, according to reports.

A small victory for the men who love death JANET DALEY It was probably bound to happen — if not now, then eventually. There is an all-out war on the streets and almost inevitably somebody was going to be killed by the authorities who was believed to be implicated but then turned out not to be. Given the peculiarly ruthless tactic of suicide bombing, who could take the risk of allowing someone who seemed to be a plausible suspect to ignite himself in a public place? Given that we are up against an enemy who states categorically that he “loves...

Louisville -- A jury Monday rejected a claim by the estate of a 50-year-old black man who was handcuffed and fatally shot by a police detective. The verdict followed a two-week trial stemming from the 2002 death of James Taylor. Taylor's estate sued Detective Michael O'Neil, who is white, contending Taylor was wrongfully killed. The shooting sparked outrage among Louisville's black population. Taylor was the sixth black man killed by police in four years. O'Neil's attorney, Steve Snyder, said Monday that the Jefferson County jury heard from experts who testified that O'Neil acted according to training. Aubrey Williams, the attorney...

An off-duty Fresno police officer shot and killed his 34-year-old brother Saturday afternoon in the living room of his home in a posh northwest Fresno neighborhood, police said.

The family of a 19-year-old man shot to death by a Knoxville police officer is considering whether it will appeal a judge's ruling that officers were not at fault in the 2003 incident. Knox County Circuit Judge Dale Workman issued his decision this week in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by Tanya Gillispie, the mother of Sean Gillispie. Young Gillispie died May 18, 2003, when Knoxville Police Department officer Jason Keck shot him after he saw Gillispie, according to Keck's testimony, bringing a gun up. At the time Gillispie was in the backseat of a parked car in the Weigel's parking...

If you are not familiar with Devin Brown and his death, the facts are sad. A kid who everybody described as 'nice' went for a joyride at four in the morning on Sunday, and ended up being shot and killed by an LAPD officer. All the facts in the case are not known, and the investigation will probably take several months to complete. This case has captured so much attention that the FBI is now investigating what happened. I expect a wrongful death lawsuit to be filed against the city any day now, regardless of what the investigation finds. Even...

DENVER - Police responding to a report of a woman being assaulted by her husband shot and killed the suspect's uncle, who was watching television in bed.The death, the third fatal police shooting in Denver this year, sparked a protest Tuesday outside the mayor's office, with activists chanting "stop killer cops." An aide said the mayor is examining officers' use of force.Police Chief Gerry Whitman said Monday that an officer mistook a soda can Frank Lobato was holding for a weapon and shot him Sunday after he moved suddenly.Lobato, 63, was an invalid who needed crutches to move around and...

Hostage-taker killed during standoff BY KERRY DRENNAN AVALANCHE-JOURNAL A Lubbock Police officer fired the fatal shot that ended a 17-hour standoff with an ex-con who, at one point, held a Friona family hostage after stealing several cars and firing at multiple law enforcement officers. Officer Scott Weems was placed on paid administrative leave Sunday, as is Lubbock Police Department policy pending the outcome of the investigations into the shooting death of Robby Lynn Vaughn, 37, of Muleshoe, Chief Claude Jones said. "We'll be looking at it policy-wise, but everything looks good," Jones said. The Texas Rangers are conducting an independent...

(MOBILE, Ala.) Mar. 10 - A man is dead after Mobile police open fire in a crowded shopping center parking lot. It started around 9:30 Wednesday morning in front of the Big K-Mart on Schillinger Road near Airport Boulevard. Police say they were called because a man was driving erratically in the parking lot. When police arrived, 40-year-old Wayne Stewart was changing a tire. Officers say Stewart was bleeding and appeared very upset. When they attempted to calm him down, police say Stewart pulled out a carpet-cutter and lunged towards them. It was then that two officers shot Stewart as...

Cop's bullet hit bystander Albany -- Police say one of two officers firing at moving car shot David Scaringe, 24 An errant bullet that killed a young engineer as he walked along Lark Street came from the gun of one of two police officers who opened fire on an unarmed Delmar man as he allegedly backed his car along a sidewalk to elude arrest. The slaying of 24-year-old David R.A. Scaringe, whose home was less than 50 yards from the busy intersection where he collapsed and died, has triggered an intensive internal investigation into whether the officers were justified in...

<p>A naked maniac hacked his wife to death with a sword in their Bronx apartment yesterday and then lunged at cops howling, "I'm God, kill me!" before an officer shot him and accidentally hit her own partner, too, police said.</p>