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Back in September, a gunman walked up to two Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies who were sitting in their patrol car and opened fire. Both officers are still in critical condition from their gunshot wounds. This is just one of several violent attacks against law enforcement since the death of George Floyd. As the officers were rushed to the hospital, protestors blocked the emergency entrances and exits to the hospital, shouting “We hope they die.” These types of vile and violent protests, rioting, and destruction have taken a hold of many American cities since late May, after George Floyd was...

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LONDON: British Police on Sunday said they were dealing with an incident on a vessel off England's south coast following reports that hijackers had attempted to take over an oil tanker. "We are aware and dealing with an ongoing incident on board a vessel which is situated south of the Isle of Wight," a spokesman for Hampshire police told AFP. The incident is reported to have taken place on the Liberian-registered Nave Andromeda crude oil tanker, according to Isle of Wight Radio, the local sation. The boat left Nigeria last week and was due to dock in Southampton earlier Sunday....

The Rutherford Institute is calling a decision by the Virginia Supreme Court to give police departments unrestricted use of Automated License Plate Readers to gather data statewide about residents a "blow to privacy." The legal team had asked the court to decide in its Fairfax County Police Department v. Neal case that the use of the computerized spy programs violated a state law restricting government collection of personal information.

Cellphone video shot by a bystander captured part of the shooting in which an officer shot and killed a suspect who police say had pulled a gun from his pocket Thursday. Police identified the man who was shot as Mark Matthew Bender Jr., a 35-year-old San Bernardino resident. They said his lengthy rap sheet includes an arrest for attempted murder.

BLM protesters claimed police officers stationed in San Bernardino are coming from “KKK enclaves” He also proclaims that it is “THEM AGAINST US” Video below: LinkDozens of protesters came out Friday night to demonstrate against the police-involved shooting of a Black man in Southern California one night earlier. The protesters in San Bernardino marched down a street, blocking traffic at an intersection near where the man was shot. They shouted slogans such as, “Abolish the police!” and “F— the police!” according to videos on social media. LinkA cellphone video shot by a bystander captured part of the shooting in which...

A woman wearing a “Trump 2020” shirt was arrested by a large group of Nashville Police for not wearing a mask while standing outside, according to a livestreamer who captured the incident. The arrest was filmed by livestreamer Tim Gionet, better known as Baked Alaska online. In the footage, Gionet demands that they are singling the woman out because she is a Trump supporter. “She’s being arrested for no mask?You guys are f-cking disgusting. F-ck you guys. You should be ashamed of yourself,” Gionet is heard saying. “This is our country now. Joe Biden’s America, everyone! Welcome to Joe Biden’s...

For months people have been taking to the streets across the country and here locally demanding racial equality and a push for police reform following George Floyd’s death after a police officer knelt on his neck while putting him under arrest. We’re seeing renewed cries for justice after Jacob Blake was shot in the back in Wisconsin in front of his children. His family now says he is paralyzed. This has caused a protest in support of the police officers, from the organization named "Back The Blue." Back the blue protested, but peacefully. Trump supporters are 90% of back the...

Sixteen years ago, a group of military veterans turned a presidential campaign upside down. The Democratic Party had selected then-senator John Kerry as its nominee. His party positioned him as a war hero, backed with a glowing campaign biography by historian Douglas Brinkley. Inaccuracies in Brinkley’s account attracted the attention of Navy veterans who had served with Kerry in Vietnam. They formed a group called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and began to investigate and document Kerry’s activities during and after the war. They quickly found and publicized evidence that undercut Kerry’s mythology, including his oft-repeated claim that he...

President Trump challenged Joe Biden in the first debate to name one police endorsement he’d received. Mr. Biden couldn’t—virtually all police organizations have endorsed Mr. Trump. Police groups are endorsing Republicans at every level, many for the first time and by overwhelming votes. The nation’s largest police organization, with 355,000 members, is the Fraternal Order of Police. Patrick Yoes, the national group’s president, tells me every officer in the FOP has a vote. The process starts with officers voting at 2,100 local lodges, each of which votes at the state level. Then, at the national level, the states each cast...

Louisiana Officer In Critical Condition After Gunman Opens Fire On Him Holly Matkin Mangham, LA – A Mangham police officer is in critical condition after being shot in the abdomen during a traffic stop on Saturday. Franklin Parish Sheriff Kevin Cobb said the shooting occurred after Mangham Police Department (MPD) Officer Marshall Waters conducted a traffic stop on Louisiana Highway 425 near the Richland-Franklin parish line at approximately 1 p.m. on Oct. 17, KATC reported. As Officer Waters stepped out of his patrol vehicle, the driver of the vehicle he stopped opened fire, shooting him in the lower abdomen beneath...

Hero Down: Houston Police Sgt. Harold Preston Murdered By Gunman Holly Matkin Houston, TX – Houston Police Department (HPD) Sergeant Harold Preston was murdered in the line of duty on Tuesday morning. The 65-year-old sergeant was one of many officers who responded to the Richmond Manor apartments in the 2600-block of Holly Hall and El Mundo to assist a woman who was trying to gather some of her property from her estranged husband, KTRK reported. When the officers arrived at the scene to help the woman to retrieve her property, her husband allegedly opened fire on them, HPD Chief Art...

Sgt. Harold Preston was a 41 year veteran of the Houston Police Department. He was the caretaker for his elderly parents. 65 years old, he was just a few weeks away from retirement. He was shot and killed Tuesday morning in the line of duty. Preston was shot by Elmer Manzano, an illegal alien and convicted felon with multiple priors. In October 1994, Manzano was arrested for the unlawful carrying of a firearm in Dallas County. That case was dismissed after a year of deferred adjudication, according to Dallas County court records.In August 2000, Manzano was arrested for assault in...

A judge has dismissed the third-degree murder charge against white cop Derek Chauvin over the killing of black man George Floyd after he knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes as he begged for air and said 'I can't breathe'. Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill granted a motion to dismiss the charge against the former Minneapolis police officer in a ruling Thursday morning. Cahill wrote in a 107-page court ruling that prosecutors did not have probable cause for the charge because there was no evidence Chauvin's actions were 'eminently dangerous' to anyone other than Floyd.

Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill dismissed Minneapolis cop’s third-degree murder charge in a 107-page decision Thursday morning. Chauvin, 44, also faces criminal charges, including more serious charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

The brake line of a New York City police vehicle involved in an accident earlier this month was cut, authorities said. Police learned about the suspected sabotage nearly two weeks after the Oct. 7 accident in which two officers assigned to the NYPD's Transit District 20 rear-ended a car at a red light in Queens, an NYPD spokeswoman told Fox News.  The officers were driving near Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike when the vehicle's brakes failed, and it hit another vehicle at slow speed.  There were minor injuries and the police car was taken to be repaired.  A mechanic noticed that the brake line had been intentionally...

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore predicted Tuesday that the city will see more than 300 homicides this year — a level not reached in L.A. in more than a decade. Moore said there had been 266 homicides in the city as of Saturday, representing a nearly 25% increase over the same period last year and surpassing the total number of homicides in all of 2019, when there were 253 killings in the city, and 2018, when there were 260 total killings. Speaking during a virtual meeting of the Police Commission, Moore called the pace of violence in 2020 a...

Houston Police chief Art Acevedo comforts Council Member Carolyn Evan Shabazz outside Memorial Hermann Hospital after the death of Sgt. Harold Preston on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, in Houston. Two officers were shot by a suspect during a domestic violence call at an apartment complex near El Rio and Holly Hall streets. Two officers were shot by a suspect during a domestic violence call at an apartment complex near El Rio and Holly Hall streets.Photo: Godofredo A. Vásquez/Staff photographer Houston Police officers watch as chief Art Acevedo talks to reporters about the death of Sgt. Harold Preston, at Memorial Hermann...

Editor's Note: The following piece contains graphic language.The ugliness that we have recently witnessed including rioting, billions of dollars of property destruction, assaults, murders and grossly stupid claims about our nation has its origins on college campuses. Two websites, College Reform and College Fix, report on the despicable teachings on college campuses across the nation. Let us look at some of it. In response to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson's tweeting that he supports "citizen soldiers" in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Tressie McMillan Cottom, a black professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science declared that "they...

T.J. L’Heureux, Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly’s deputy press secretary, called police “worthless f–ing pigs” in a tweet posting. This week, under pressure from the campaign, he apologized saying “I deeply regret my comment and apologize for what I wrote. My comment does not reflect who I am or what I believe. I have deleted the tweet.” Afterward L’Heureux lamented what he called “the disturbing trend in our society that forces a person to have to apologize for his personal opinions. It’s not as if I was tweeting something that any loyal Democrat would disagree with, but the climate...