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The video, which has been viewed more than 6.4 million times, showed the gray-haired man fighting with the employee at the Orlando superstore on Saturday — the same day masks became mandatory in Orange County, WDBO reported.

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APD Officer Webster Dies Posted on October 29, 2015 The Albuquerque Police Department Confirms That Officer Daniel Webster … Critically Injured Last Week During A Traffic Stop Near Central And Eubank … Died At University Hospital Overnight. An Apd Press Release Says Officer Webster Died Around 2:30 Thursday Morning.

Police discover valuable Momaday art in condemned apartment Art showed up in a surprising place last week, when a police officer discovered more than $33,000 worth of prints by renowned artist Al Momaday in a condemned property in the Northeast Heights. According to the incident report, an Albuquerque police officer accompanied city officials who were boarding up an apartment known to him as a site for stashing stolen property. He spotted a portfolio box on the floor containing 72 prints by Momaday, a Native American artist from the Kiowa tribe in Oklahoma. The artist lived on the Jemez Pueblo for...

The Department of Justice has found the Albuquerque Police Department has established a pattern and practice in the use of excessive and fatal force that violates the Constitutional rights of those shot or harmed by police officers. In a 46-page letter of findings to Mayor Richard Berry, the DOJ reported, “We have determined that structural and systemic deficiencies — including insufficient oversight, inadequate training and ineffective policies — contributed to the use of unreasonable force.” The Department of Justice reviewed 20 fatal shootings by Albuquerque Police between 2009 and 2013 and found that in the majority of cases the level...

Hours after hundreds protested the Albuquerque Police Department’s use of force Tuesday evening, officers opened fire on a man near Central and Coors. The man died at the hospital, police said Wednesday morning. He becomes the 23rd man since 2010 shot and killed by Albuquerque Police, which is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for its use of force Neighbors at the scene of Tuesday’s shooting were shocked and outraged. They said officers shot the man while he was unarmed and talking on a cellphone. A video shot by a neighbor appears to show a man in a...

An Austin police officer was killed in the line of duty earlier this morning, and a suspect has been arrested. Officials say the officer was fatally shot inside a Walmart off Interstate 35, north of Parmer Lane, in North Austin. Austin police spokesman Cpl. Anthony Hipolito said officers got a 911 call about an intoxicated person at the store at 2:21 a.m. It was not immediately clear what happened after that.

A former Atlanta woman on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against the Atlanta Police Department, contending an officer illegally seized her camera after she took pictures of officers kicking a man who was handcuffed and laying on the ground. The suit said Felecia Anderson, 24, who lived in the West End on Oct. 14, 2009, saw members of APD's now-disbanded Red Dog unit raiding her neighbor's house. When she also saw officers kicking and dragging a man, she went home and got her camera, the suit said. As Anderson filmed the incident as she stood on the sidewalk, officers ordered...

Austin City Council Member Sheryl Cole wants visitors flocking downtown today and through the weekend for the Texas Relays and Urban Music Festival to know that the city welcomes them and their dollars. We do, too. More than 40,000 people are expected to be in town, generating more than $8 million for the city's economy. Special events have boosted Austin's tourism business, which generates $3 billion annually for the city's economy, according to the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau. snip Cole also wants to get the word out that there are plenty of things to do in addition to the...

Austin city officials and attorneys for the family of Nathaniel Sanders II, who was fatally shot by a police officer last year, have agreed to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit for $750,000, sources close to the negotiations said this afternoon. The agreement is pending an Austin City Council vote this month. The sources asked that they not be identified because the agreement has not been finalized. Council Member Bill Spelman confirmed the two sides had reached terms on a settlement and that the council is scheduled to make a decision July 29, which is the next time the council...

Austin police teamed up with code enforcement for a little club hopping last night. The goal was not the usual weekend checklist but reducing violent crimes. The party at La Rumba Night Club on East Riverside was cut short last night as police, fire and code inspectors hit the dance floor in search of violations. “We want to go out there and make sure everyone is in compliance. People aren't creating more victims by serving them too much alcohol so people can't make sound decisions and protect themselves at night,” said Lt. Paul Christ with the Austin Police Department. APD's...

Exactly one week after 18-year old Daniel Rocha was shot to death by an Austin Police Officer, a crowd of angry neighbors addressed city leaders. The community forum was held at the Dove Springs Recreation Center Thursday night. "My stomach turned when I heard about it. The first thing I thought was,'how could this be?," Yolanda Alvarez, a concerned Austin resident said. In the crowd sat three mothers who've lost children to Austin Police Department shootings. "How could you justify taking someone's loved one?" The mother of Sophia King, Brenda Elendu, asked. The crowd reacted to new information released that...

By Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Saturday, March 05, 2005 Four dispatchers suspended in addition to five officers. At 7:09 p.m. on Feb. 18, Austin police officer John Lengefeld heard a radio transmission that a Northeast Austin nightclub was on fire. The seven-year department veteran, according to documents released Friday, said he immediately thought of the song "Disco Inferno" and sent a message from his patrol car to fellow officer Josue Martinez that said "burn baby burn." Martinez replied 37 seconds later: "Hey ... LOL (laughing out loud). Those were my exact thoughts." So began more than two hours of computer...

By Asher Price AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, December 16, 2004 A retired Austin police detective and his wife, a police commander, had blood-alcohol levels far above the legal limit to drive when they died in a motorcycle crash Saturday, according to toxicology results from the Travis County medical examiner's office. Kurt Jacobson, who retired from the Austin Police Department in 2002, was driving his Harley-Davidson with a blood-alcohol level of 0.24 — three times the state limit of 0.08 — Medical Examiner Roberto Bayardo said. Cmdr. Shauna Jacobson, his passenger, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.33, more than four times the...

Two of the men viewed porn on Internet; lawyer calls it 'locker room-type atmosphere' AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, July 22, 2004 Three Austin police officers have been suspended for telling dirty jokes and making sexual comments in front of a female co-worker and must attend any training or counseling a department psychologist recommends. Two of the officers also viewed Internet pornography that included nude photos of actresses such as Pamela Anderson and a naked obese woman, according to their attorney and disciplinary memos obtained Wednesday. "It was basically a situation where there was a locker room-type atmosphere," lawyer Jamie Balagia said....

'Alamo' co-star charged with resisting arrest, public intoxication By Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Two Austin police officers were on patrol near Fifth and Colorado streets about 2:45 a.m. Monday when they spotted a gaggle of people blocking motorists trying to drive through the intersection. Nearly everyone in the group, they said, complied with a request to move. But a man police later identified as actor Jason Patric only shuffled toward the sidewalk, according to probable cause affidavits. Moments later, Patric and officer Joshua Visi were tumbling to the ground as Visi tried to arrest him. The...

Knee says he will improve relations between police and African American community by September, or he will resign By Erik Rodriguez and Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, January 28, 2004 Austin Police Chief Stan Knee told the American-Statesman on Wednesday that he is giving himself a deadline to improve the relationship between the Police Department and the African American community, or he will resign. Knee said he will work to restore relations to where they were before June 2002, when police shot and killed 23-year-old Sophia King, a mentally ill African American woman who police said was threatening her landlord...