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This is the horrific moment an injured teenager is tased by a cop called to a car crash – leaving him flatlining in an ambulance and then fighting for life in a coma. Jordan Rivero was already bloodied, dazed and confused after the accident on his way home from a fishing trip in the Florida Keys with three friends in July 2022. Police bodycam footage obtained by DailyMail.com shows the 19-year-old passenger sobbing uncontrollably near the wrecked pick-up truck as he sits down on the orders of Monroe County Sheriff's deputies. Disoriented and not under suspicion of any crime, he...

This could go down as the most egregious example of an MSM “anchor” groveling at the feet of a liberal activist . . . During MSNBC’s coverage of the opening night of the Republican convention, Tavis Smiley complained that, unlike cop killers, “killer cops” are not called “vicious and despicable and cowardly and reprehensible.” Brian Williams immediately piped up: “Tavis, if I appointed you president and you still refused to run we would have to appoint you.” I’m guessing Williams meant to say “if I nominated you for president you and you refused to run we would have to appoint...

A Houston police officer shot and killed a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair Saturday inside a group home after police say the double amputee threatened the officer and aggressively waved a metal object that turned out to be a pen. Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the man cornered the officer in his wheelchair and was making threats while trying to stab the officer with the pen. At the time, the officer did not know what the metal object was that the man was waving, Silva said. She said the man came "within inches to a foot" of the officer...

WILMINGTON -- A golf tournament this weekend raised money for local emergency workers going through some tough times. But you may be surprised to hear who may get the money. Former Sheriff's Deputy Chris Long, the man who shot and killed Peyton Strickland while trying to serve an arrest warrant, is one of three candidates who may get the money from the Local Heroes tournament. Long has been under investigation since December 1, 2006. That's when Long shot through 18-year-old Peyton Strickland's front door while trying to serve arrest and search warrants. On Saturday Long, New Hanover County Sheriff Sid...

Police chief, DA ask for help after killings by cops are allegedAllegations of unlawful killings involving one or more Portland cops more than two decades ago have prompted Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer and Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk to bring in the FBI. The allegations, which were aired by a prominent local criminal defense lawyer and described by Portland Tribune columnist Phil Stanford, caused the two local officials to ask the FBI to review a 1981 probe of assorted felonies by several then-members of a special unit of the Portland Police Bureau. Stanford’s columns described allegations that longtime...

Autopsy Shows 12-Year-Old Boy Was Shot in Back After Police Chase The Associated Press Published: Dec 26, 2002 UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A 12-year-old boy who died after a police chase was shot in the back, according to an autopsy released Thursday. Michael Ellerbe was shot and killed Tuesday after crashing a stolen vehicle in Uniontown, about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Police said two troopers chased Ellerbe after he tried to run away. During the foot chase, shots were fired and Ellerbe was struck in the heart by a bullet. He died later at a hospital. The coroner said...