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Disturbing footage captured a female NYPD officer being clobbered with a bottle by a serial crime suspect as she and a colleague inspected a smoke shop The clip, posted to the Twitter page NYC Scoop, showed the unnamed cop standing outside a deli in the Bronx just before 2pm on Monday, when out of nowhere the man came up behind her and started striking her and her partner.

A violent criminal who tried to murder a Florida cop has been sentenced to life in prison after shooting the officer four times. Now, video footage from inside the courtroom has gone viral after the cop showed up to deliver a special "going away gift" for the smug thug.The officer’s car Kevin Rojas was just 19 years old when he tried to kill an undercover Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer who was in his car with his teenage son. When the off-duty officer, who was taking his son to school, saw Rojas driving erratically, the cop decided to make a traffic...

An Indianapolis police sergeant faces federal charges after shocking body cam video captured him stomping on the face of a handcuffed homeless man’s face as he lay on the ground. Sgt. Eric Huxley, 44, a 15-year veteran, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating the black man’s civil rights by using excessive force during the caught-on-video incident Sept. 24, 2021. Huxley, who is white, was charged with one count of deprivation of rights under color of law while using a dangerous weapon, resulting in bodily injury. The sergeant and two other officers — Sgt. Christopher Kibbey and...

A San Antonio police officer has been fired after he shot and injured a 17-year-old multiple times when the boy fled in his car after he startled him in a McDonald's parking lot. Shocking video shows the moment that Erik Cantu was wounded multiple times while eating a cheeseburger inside of his car after being confronted by Officer James Brennand. An unharmed female passenger was seated next to the victim. She has not been identified. Cantu was hospitalized at nearby University Hospital. He listed as being in critical but stable condition. On Wednesday, the San Antonio Police Department acted swiftly...

A Los Angeles cop who died in what the department said was a training accident was actually killed for being a possible whistleblower — and was about to reveal information about a gang rape by police, his family claims.

A pregnant woman who feared she was having a miscarriage was stopped from going to the emergency room for 20 minutes by an officer after her husband honked at him for blocking the hospital entrance with his car. Kevin Enciso was driving his pregnant wife Sabrina, 32, to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida on doctor's orders because she was in pain from a car accident she was involved in the day before. But as they approached the hospital in 100F heat on July 28, they found two Miami-Dade cop cars blocking the parking lot entrance as the officers had a...

o protect and swerve. A Florida police officer was hit with drunk driving raps this week after driving his police cruiser in full uniform with an open beer in the center console, authorities said. Oscar Mayorga, 25, of the Apopka Police Department was pulled over after driving erratically in his official vehicle by a member of the Eustis Police Department, Local 10 reported. A local resident called 911 after spotting the police car running stop signs and careening across the road. Slurring his speech, Mayorga, a five-year veteran, told his colleagues that he was on his way to work and...

A Grand Rapids police officer, who was seen on video shooting Patrick Lyoya after a car stop, has been charged with second-degree murder. Christopher Schurr, who shot the unarmed Lyoya in the back of the head during a struggle, was charged by prosecutors in Kent County, Michigan, on Thursday. “The death was not justified or excused, for example, by self-defense,” prosecutor Chris Becker said.

President Joe Biden acknowledged the difficulty of being a police officer in the current political and social climate during a speech at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on Capitol Hill on Sunday. “Being a cop today is a lot harder than it has ever been,” Biden said, alluding to rising crime in some of America’s biggest cities under his administration.

The Chicago Police Department is preparing for a surge in violence over the Memorial Day weekend by canceling all upcoming days off for its officers as they are continuing to face a severe manpower shortage. ABC 7 Chicago reports an internal memo sent to officers states all days off are to be canceled for one full week between May 24 and 31 along with the possibility of being put on 12-hour work shifts during that time "if operational needs arises." It is expected that downtown retail corridors will get special attention during the holiday weekend. To make matters worse, 900...

DENVER — A former Colorado police officer shown on body camera video roughly arresting a 73-year-old woman with dementia and later seen joking about it with colleagues was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Black man face-down on the ground was fatally shot in the back of the head by a Michigan police officer, the violent climax of a traffic stop, brief foot chase and struggle over a stun gun, according to videos of the April 4 incident released Wednesday. Patrick Lyoya, 26, was killed outside a house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The white officer repeatedly ordered Lyoya to “let go” of his Taser, at one point demanding: “Drop the Taser!” Citing a need for transparency, the city’s new police chief, Eric Winstrom, released four videos, including critical...

A disgraced Louisiana teacher has pleaded guilty to "horrific crimes" against children and admitted to serving her students cupcakes that contained sperm from her ex-husband, who is awaiting his own trial on child sex crime charges, according to authorities. Cynthia Perkins, 36, agreed to plead guilty and testify against her ex, 44-year-old former Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office SWAT member Dennis Perkins, who is also charged with dozens of child sex crimes, according to prosecutors. "She not only waived any right to appeal, and attempt to avoid conviction, but she also spared the victims from reliving her horrific crimes during this...

A Washington State Patrol officer who defied a statewide vaccine mandate and signed off for the last time by telling Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee to "kiss my a--" is dead from COVID-19. Former Trooper Robert LaMay, 51, who served 22 years with the State Patrol and retired last October, died on Friday. LaMay garnered attention from Americans across the country after he signed off for the last time as an officer and told Washington Gov. Jay Inslee he "can kiss my a--" over forced vaccine mandates. https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1449538761474199555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1449538761474199555%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fwashington-trooper-who-defied-states-vaccine-mandate-dies-from-covid Following LaMay's death, Washington State Patrol Chief John R. Batiste released a statement...

The mother of a New York City man accused of gunning down two NYPD officers before a third returned fire told local media Monday that her son had "a fixation on guns," suffered from mental illness and lost vision in his left eye after a brawl with gang members as a younger man. She also said she regretted phoning in the domestic violence altercation that dispatched police to her Harlem home. Shirley Sourzes called 911 Friday to report a domestic incident involving her 47-year-old son, Lashawn McNeil.

An off-duty Chicago cop was arrested for fatally shooting the mother of his child – who planned to break up with him, relatives and police said. The officer — who was not identified because he had yet to be charged — was taken into custody early Thursday after Andris Wofford, 29, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the chin at a home in the city’s Northwest side, WFLD reported. Wofford’s sister told the station she had been dating the officer for two to three years and had a 9-month-old child with him but planned on leaving him while...

A Florida police officer sent explicit text messages to a 15-year-old boy and tried to entice him to a nude beach, federal prosecutors said. Juan Antonio Garcia, a 30-year-old cop for the Sewall’s Point Police Department, appeared Friday in Fort Pierce federal court after allegedly sending the explicit texts discovered by the teen’s father in late November, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. A federal criminal complaint claims Garcia, of Stuart, also asked the boy to accompany him to a nude beach in Florida’s St. Lucie County and to perform sexual acts. “It is...

A Newark Police Officer struck and killed a nurse with his car and then drove the body to his mother’s house seeking advice before returning to the scene with the body, officials said on Wednesday. Louis Santiago, 25, of Bloomfield was arrested and charged with reckless vehicular homicide, desecrating human remains and other charges after he hit and killed 29-year-old nurse Damian Dymka, of Garfield, on the Garden State Parkway, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

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Early yesterday morning, cops from the @NYPD67Pct were on a fixed post to address community concerns when they were suddenly assaulted with a glass bottle in an unprovoked attack. The suspect, who has been arrested for assaulting officers twice in the past, was quickly caught. The officer received lacerations to the neck and head which required stitches and staples, but thankfully will be OK. 24/7 your NYPD officers put themselves in harms way to protect this city, it's residents and it's visitors. NYPD Twitter - Video