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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Fairfax County police released the name of the man who allegedly shot two police officers in Fairfax, Virginia, on Wednesday afternoon. …. More officers were called to the scene, and when they arrived, Wali allegedly reached for a firearm and shot two officers. A third officer fired his weapon, striking Wali four times, officials said. …. The two officers were taken to a local hospital in a "non-life-threatening condition," officials said, and Wali was pronounced dead on the scene. Officers recovered the firearm that Wali allegedly had.

A disturbing surge of swatting attacks has struck media personalities, conservative influencers, and me too. The FBI is investigating. FBI Director Kash Patel has said, “This isn’t about politics—weaponizing law enforcement against ANY American is not only morally reprehensible but also endangers lives, including those of our officers. That will not be tolerated.” “Swatting” is the crime of making calls to report fake emergencies in order to provoke armed police responses. The calls often claim a shooting, hostage situation, or bomb threat—to dispatch heavily armed police, typically SWAT teams, to a victim’s address. As federal and local authorities scramble to...

An entire Ohio police department, including the chief, resigned Tuesday over a lack of support and clashes with village officials. "As a department, we have decided that enough is enough," said Sgt. Renatta Griffith, one of the members of the Craig Beach Police Department who stepped down during a Village Council meeting, according to WFMJ-TV. "We're tired of being disrespected and micromanaged. … Our resignations are exactly what the council was trying to accomplish." Griffith and four other officers spoke at the podium during Tuesday's meetings and turned in their badges. After that, officials requested that they left the building....

According to Indiana State Police, Warrick County Dispatch received a call about a reckless driver on State Road 62. A Chandler police officer tried to stop the car, but the driver kept going. Troopers said the vehicle eventually stopped after crashing into a ditch in Chandler, Indiana. Devillez, who was wearing a motorcycle helmet, exited her vehicle and started waving a sword at an officer. Indiana State Police said the officer shot Devillez at least once. Devillez then got inside the officer’s patrol vehicle and drove towards Boonville, Indiana. Police lost contact with the police cruiser until a Rockport Police...

LOS ANGELES, California — Mayor Karen Bass tried to strike an upbeat tone as she delivered the bad news Monday in her “State of the City” speech, cutting 400 civilian jobs in the L.A. Police Department next year. The Los Angeles Times reported: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass released a proposed budget on Monday that would eliminate a nearly $1 billion financial gap by cutting more than 2,700 city positions — about 1,650 of them through layoffs. … The $14 billion spending plan, which covers the 2025-26 fiscal year, would provide funding for scores of new hires at the fire...

Apparently, it has become a “red flag” for law enforcers when a victim of their enforcement insists on asserting their rights under the law. As for instance their right not to hand over ID just because an enforcer demands to see it. The law is that this is the law only when a crime or at least some infraction – such as jaywalking – has been committed or the enforcer has solid grounds for believing a crime or offense has been or is about to be committed Interestingly, it is not a crime for law enforcers to violate this law....

In the wake of the deadly shooting at Florida State University on Thursday, a portrait of the alleged gunman -- the son of a local sheriff's deputy -- has emerged. At least two people were killed and six others were injured when shots rang out near the Tallahassee institution's Student Union, officials said during a press conference.

An incoherent New Jersey mom was allegedly caught on police bodycam video slurring her words after she drunkenly plowed into a truck with her three young daughters — and open bottles of wine — in her SUV. Megan Fackler, who admitted to working for the Garden State’s DOT, was arrested over the alleged drunken ordeal in Ewing Township, N.J., last October, newly released footage obtained by Transparency Bodycam shows. The mother had allegedly drifted into incoming traffic and crashed her 2020 Chevrolet Traverse into the truck after taking her kids — aged 8, 7, and 4 years — to dinner...

Left-wing commentator and Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe claimed Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that President Donald Trump’s administration was causing “an impending police state.” Tribe said, “I been in school for 50 years studying the constitution, teaching about it. It doesn’t enforce itself. It takes human beings of character to take it seriously. And when for whatever combination of cultural and social reasons, the nation selects someone who clearly has no respect for the constitution, someone who is cruel, someone who is without moral principle this is what we see. We see a tinhorn dictator interacting with a wannabe...

Nothing is static or "stable". Under the churn of the daily news cycle, the long-term trends advance remorselessly. Thus, if you are English or Irish, Swedish or German, the police are now on the other side. Here's a particularly extreme example of that from yours truly long ago, musing on the soi-disant "most wanted man in Europe": A few months after writing the above, I chanced to be in Molenbeek, which I knew well from my childhood (my mum was Belgian). I was checking out the story of Salah Abdeslam, who after taking part in the Bataclan atrocities in Paris...

British police warn an elderly, partially-deaf man that saying "speak English" is a hate crime. This is absolutely insane.

The Albuquerque Police Department has provided more details on just how many guardsmen will be used and what roles they will fill to assist officers after the governor declared a crime-related emergency in the city. APD spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said Friday that 60 members of the New Mexico National Guard will fulfill non-law enforcement duties for the department starting in mid-May. Of those deployed, 36 will help secure scenes and perimeters during incidents and investigations, 12 will help operate drones for the Real Time Crime Center, and 12 will work with the Prisoner Transport Center to “help evidence collection and...

A Walmart employee in Newton County, Georgia, shot and killed one person inside the store and another person at a residence early Friday morning. The Associated Press noted that the shooting inside the store occurred at 1:30 a.m., leaving an employee dead and another employee wounded. The gunman then went to a nearby residence and killed another person. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that the individual killed in the home was a Walmart employee, too. The violence started when one employee left the store, retrieved a gun from his vehicle and came back inside. He was captured just across the Georgia...

When residents of a ritzy West L.A. neighborhood experienced an increase in burglaries last year, they decided to invest in technology to fight the problem. The neighborhood association in Cheviot Hills — a community of million-dollar homes sandwiched between the 10 Freeway and Century City — raised more than $200,000 to purchase scores of controversial, high-tech cameras that scan license plates. The automated plate readers, as they are known, enable authorities to track when vehicles of interest pass through certain intersections. The devices can also be mounted on police cars, allowing officers to sweep up troves of license plate data...

New research from the College of William and Mary and the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows armed civilians are more effective than police at stopping active shooting attacks on the public. Armed civilians are more likely to stop the attacks without being injured or killed. Armed civilians stop more attacks than do police. Police in the United States stop almost as many attacks as are stopped by armed civilians. For decades, Second Amendment advocates have considered it to be common sense that armed civilians would be more effective at stopping active shooter attacks on the public than police. To...

Weezer bassist Scott Shriner's wife Jillian Lauren was shot by police officers in Los Angeles Tuesday after authorities say she pointed a gun at a hit-and-run suspect, and refused to obey orders from officers on the scene. The incident began with a hit-and-run in the LA neighborhood of Eagle Rock, police told TMZ Tuesday, noting that a trio of suspects exited their vehicle on foot and scattered. All three had been running from the scene, police said, adding that Lauren, 51, came out from one of the nearby homes with a weapon in hand, though 'it's unclear whether she fired'...

An autistic teenager with cerebral palsy, armed with a knife, has been left in critical condition after being shot nine times by Idaho police officers, prompting public outrage. Victor Perez, a 17-year-old boy described by his family as nonverbal, autistic and intellectually disabled, was gunned down by police from behind a chain-link fence just seconds after officers exited their vehicles on Saturday. Doctors removed nine bullets from Perez's body and amputated his left leg. He now remains on a ventilator in 'critical condition' after being revived twice, Idaho News 6 reported. 'The police barely spoke to anyone,' Ana Vazquez, the...

ZACHARY, La. (WAFB) - The head of the Zachary Police Department is speaking out in response to social media rumors about a traffic Bingo game some officers allegedly played. In a statement released on Tuesday, March 25, Zachary Police Chief Darryl Lawrence Sr. confirmed that some officers created a Bingo game as a competition between shifts two years ago, but he denied a quota system or breaking of any laws. “The officers did not receive any incentives or awards for this game,” he stated. According to the chief, the police administration did not create or approve this game, and he...

New York lawmakers are considering a bill that would bar law enforcement officers from conducting traffic stops for minor violations. Part of the effort behind the proposal is to further “racial equity and public safety,” Fox News reported on Monday. “The measure aims to limit ‘the frequency of traffic stops for minor violations in furtherance of racial equity and public safety,’ according to the bill, as racial minorities in the state make up the majority of arrests and traffic stops,” the outlet said, noting violations mentioned included those such as a broken taillight, expired tags, window tinting that is too...

... The scene was similar to dozens of other gun buyback events held at the Catholic parish, where more than 5,100 guns have been exchanged for gift cards over the past 19 years, more than any other location in the city. That day was marked by excitement, confusion and ultimately chaos after one cop inventorying the weapons at a police station noticed something unusual. A Glock handgun that cops had been admiring was missing. A tag identifying the gun had been slipped onto another one, and an envelope for that gun was soon found in the trash. In an office...