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The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety said Tuesday that Uvalde police could have stopped the mass shooting at Robb Elementary within three minutes, calling their response an "abject failure." Testifying before a special Texas Senate committee hearing, Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told lawmakers that "There is compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary was an abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre." "The officers had weapons, while the children had none. The officers had...

An Illinois police officer fatally shot a man Thursday after the suspect arrived at a traffic stop involving another motorist and charged the officer with a hatchet, police said. The fatal shooting happened in Naperville, some 33 miles west of Chicago, at around 11:00 a.m., the Naperville Police Department (NPD) announced in a press release. Police said preliminary information indicated that while a 22-year veteran of the police force was conducting a traffic stop near McDowall Road and Bond Street, “an unrelated vehicle” arrived at the scene and parked next to the car that was pulled over. A white male...

A North Texas teenager disappeared after going to the bathroom at a Dallas Mavericks game. A week later, her parents found her on nude advertisements for sex trafficking online in Oklahoma City. The harrowing incident is the basis for a lawsuit by the family against numerous organizations they said could have stopped the crime but didn't. The 15-year-old went to the game with her father on April 8 at the American Airlines Center. She went missing after leaving to go the bathroom right before halftime, and surveillance video captured her leaving with a man. The parents of the teenager said...

Nine Arizona police officers were wounded Friday morning – believed to be the highest number of officers shot in one day – while responding to a shooting that led to an hours-long barricaded situation, which ended with the suspect being found dead inside the Phoenix home, according to investigators. The incident began around 2:15 a.m. local time, and was resolved at about 7 a.m., police said. Phoenix Police initially responded to a report of a woman shot at a home in the area of 51st Avenue and Elwood Street – and the suspect allegedly invited the officers inside – before...

Significant press release with Ex-RCMP officer and Ex-RCMP anti-terrorism expert and acknowledged expert witness, ex-intelligent agent and political scientist. (Thomas Quiggin) From the anti-terriorsm expert on the vid: “. . . The only people ADVOCATING violence so far in this whole mess have been the Prime Minister, the Mayor, the leader of the MVP Party, people like Councilor Dean, and a few others. . . folks like them, and Chief Stoly”. (Dean is a city councillor and Chief Stoly is Chief of Police Ottawa)

VIDEOThe Ottawa Police Services Board got together via Zoom call on February 5, 2022 and they concluded that they were totally helpless. The Ottawa police chief spent most of his time professing his utter helplessness while getting himself into a load of trouble by confessing that he along with other officials stopped the GoFundMe for the Freedom Convoy. Way to go chief in angering the truckers and ensuring they will continue in their effort to stop the mandates. Oh, and do I smell a MASSIVE lawsuit coming your way?Besides the police chief admitting he was both helpless and hopeless, there...

Corporal Bulford resigns from his position of personal security of Trudeau.

BERLIN (AP) – Two police officers were shot dead while on a routine patrol in western Germany early Monday, police said. The shooting happened during a traffic check near Kusel at about 4:20 a.m., police in Kaiserslautern said in a statement. The officers – a 24-year-old woman and 29-year-old man – were able to radio for help but reinforcements were unable to help them when they arrived. The perpetrators fled but police had no description of them, the car they used or what direction they fled in. Police called on drivers in the Kusel area not to pick up hitchhikers...

HOUSTON — Three Houston police officers were shot today in the Third Ward area at the end of a chase, authorities said. According to the Houston Police Department, the officers were shot in the 2100 block of McGowen Street, at the intersection of Hutchins Street, at around 2:30 p.m. Police said the suspect fled the scene in a white Mercedes. According to law enforcement sources, the suspect is Roland Caballero. They said he's involved in a standoff at a residence on Lockwood Drive with a gunshot wound to his neck.

Two NYPD officers were reportedly shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call in Harlem Friday evening. NBC New York reports that the shooting occurred “on West 135th Street between Malcolm X Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.” The New York Post notes that the incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. and observed that the domestic incident was “between a mother and son.”

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The New York state attorney general on Friday released footage of a man bursting into flames after being tased by cops inside an upstate police station in October, an encounter that led to his death. The disturbing surveillance video shows members of the Catskill Police Department running away, leaving the man as he desperately tries to put out the flames engulfing his upper body and head. Jones is seen dousing his bare torso and hair with flammable hand sanitizer from a large pump bottle that was on a table. Within seconds, three officers advance towards him. One of them draws...

I am ANGRY!!!! I just got up to the local news and hearing about a young police officer (off duty) car jacked and shot twice in the back. He's DOA at the hospital in Lorain Oh. The shooter is in custody and there's NO news either about HIM or the dead officer!!! Every local chanel has blacked it out and instead are telling me when to take down Christmas ornamets and wall to wall eulogy for Betty White.... The media makes me SICK!

The young son of a New Jersey cop who died of COVID-19 asked his mom for only one gift for his 12th birthday Sunday — to get vaccinated. Glen Ridge widow Alice Roberts revealed that her son made the request to honor his father, Charles, who died May 11, 2020, early on in the pandemic and before vaccines were available. “My son turns 12 on Sunday. All he has asked for his birthday is a COVID-19 vaccine. You see, his father died of COVID-19 on May 11, 2020, and the pandemic has ruled all of our lives since March of...

A veteran cop was killed and another was wounded while executing a warrant in Houston early Monday morning. The suspect has since been identified by family members as Deon Ledet, 31, who has a criminal record dating back to 2008.

Prosecutors say rioters committed roughly 1,000 assaults on federal officers during the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. In a court filing Wednesday, federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C. said they have already uploaded over 2,900 police bodycam videos from Jan. 6 to its evidence database, totaling over 2,300 hours — or nearly 100 days. “Based on a review of the body-worn-camera footage conducted by our Office, the footage displays approximately 1,000 events that may be characterized as assaults on federal officers,” wrote Emily Miller, an assistant U.S. attorney and the Capitol Breach Discovery Coordinator. Over 570 people have been...

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Someone shot a video on Wednesday afternoon that showed two brothers getting arrested during a struggle with police officers at a Rock Hill gas station. About 100 people took to the streets in protest blocking the intersection of Dave Lyle Blvd and Black Street for several hours. They walked to the police department and at about 11 p.m. lit a fire surrounding a tree in front of the station. A police officer and the fire department arrived after the fire was lit. Our crews could see objects being thrown at the police officer. Police in riot...

On the home page of his lovey-dovey wedding website from 2019, ex-State Trooper Dwayne Correia #3562 includes this sappy bromide from Nicholas Sparks: “Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then things blow up.” Things blew up big-time for Dwayne Correia last Aug. 11. It was such a bad day for this week’s disgraced state cop that the MSP wrote a 23-page report on his sordid misadventures in Rhode Island (where he’d gotten married, on Goat Island, almost exactly one year earlier). Even though...

A Bend Police Department officer will be investigated for allegedly violating policy by wearing a keychain connected to a far-right group while in uniform on Saturday. Bend Chief Mike Krantz did not identify the employee, though Cpl. Josh Spano is the officer seen in a photograph circulating on Reddit and Facebook. Attached to the front of Spano’s service vest is an item reading “molon labe” in Greek lettering, a phrase associated with the far-right Three Percenters militia.

Authorities in Virginia have released disturbing body camera video of a deputy shooting a Black man who was holding a cordless phone and who had just received a ride home by the same law enforcement officer. Isaiah Brown, 32, survived more than six rounds fired at him Wednesday and was in a hospital "fighting for his life," said a spokesman....