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A Florida state trooper was seen on video accidentally pulling over a fellow officer after attempting a high-risk maneuver while attempting to catch a suspect in a police chase. State Trooper Walner Wroy was dispatched on November 29 to handle reports of a reckless, speeding motorist in the Miami Gardens area. Wroy located a Kia Stinger while on a freeway and turned on his lights in an attempt to get the car to pull over. The driver didn't stop and instead, went through multiple red lights at illegal speeds before getting out on an exit. Wroy eventually hit the rear...

A video released by the Illinois State Police shows a driver stepping out of his car and opening fire on a trooper. Another video shows the driver appearing to chase the fleeing trooper to continue the alleged assault. The trooper and the driver are hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Illinois State Police released a video from a traffic stop that officials allege shows a driver, later identified as Cristobal Santana, shooting at Trooper Dakotah Chapman Green. The video, published by KSDK NBC5, shows the traffic stop in a residential neighborhood in Springfield, Illinois, on October 24.

Meet the DeJongs, father and son, both former State Police troopers. If at this late date you still don’t understand just how profoundly corrupt Massachusetts is, consider the tale of the two DeJongs. Daren, age 60, is a convicted felon, so crooked he needs a corkscrew to get into his trousers in the morning. While on the now-defunct Troop E, he embezzled more than $63,000 in federal funds for Turnpike overtime he didn’t work. He pleaded guilty in 2019, yet he remains unsentenced to this very day. Despite his sordid criminal career, DeJong hasn’t served a single day in prison...

Connecticut’s Office of Inspector General announced on Wednesday that a white state trooper was charged with manslaughter after he fatally shot a 19-year-old Black man after a car chase in 2020. After an “extended pursuit” on Jan. 15, 2020, the trooper, Brian North, stopped a stolen vehicle and fatally shot Mubarak Soulemane seven times through the car window. Soulemane, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 14, was holding a knife when he was killed, according to a report from Inspector General Robert Devlin.

More than 200 state troopers will need to slim down by the end of the year or face disciplinary actions. The announcement comes under a controversial policy the Texas Department of Public Safety is enforcing to limit the size of officers' waistlines, according to the Dallas Morning News. The Dallas Morning News obtained documents that state men with waists over 40 inches and women over 35 inches have to track and share their weight loss efforts with DPS. For those who don't trim down by December, DPS can deny them promotions and overtime, as well as remove them from enforcement...

PALM CITY, Fla. — A stranded motorist fatally shot a Florida Highway Patrol trooper alongside Interstate 95 on Wednesday before he was killed by a passing police officer, the agency said. Trooper Joseph Bullock, 42, died in a shooting about 10:15 a.m. near Palm City, about a 45-minute drive north of West Palm Beach, said Col. Gene Spaulding, the agency's commander. He said a passing police officer from Riviera Beach fatally shot the suspect, whose name has not been released.

LISLE, Ill. — A woman fatally shot a retired Illinois State Police trooper and wounded another retired state trooper and an off-duty trooper Friday night before turning the gun on herself at a cigar lounge in the Chicago suburbs, police said. The shooting at the Humidor Cigar Lounge in Lisle was “without apparent provocation,” Lisle police said after reviewing surveillance video. The footage shows several seated people watching a big-screen television when the woman stands up, shooting 51-year-old Gregory Rieves in the back of the head and firing several rounds at two others, before shooting herself in the head, police...

"A decision made by a police officer in a split second can determine whether someone lives or dies." "The video shot from the dashboard of a state police cruiser shows Seiple trying to arrest Clary for driving under the influence. Clary breaks away and the troopers spend about a minute trying to subdue him until Clary dashes for his car and pulls out a gun."

n allegation that a white Texas state trooper sexually assaulted a black woman last weekend in Waxahachie went viral on social media. But after the Department of Public Safety published the full body-cam video of the incident, Sherita Dixon-Cole's attorney, Lee Merritt, apologized online and said that the trooper in question had been "falsely accused."

A juvenile was attempting to carjack a Louisiana State Trooper, leading the trooper to fire his gun late Thursday night (April 5) in Uptown New Orleans, state police said Friday morning as they released new details about the incident. The juvenile was arrested and booked with attempted carjacking, police said. His name was not released. The trooper was on-duty in an unmarked police car late Thursday night near the intersection of Green Street and Broadway Avenue. A dark-colored vehicle pulled up beside his and the juvenile got out, police said.The juvenile "attempted to enter" the trooper's unit and the trooper...

Texas Trooper, Father Of 3, Shot And Killed On I-45 During Traffic Stop FREESTONE COUNTY, Tex. (KBTX)- An east Texas man is facing capital murder charges in the shooting death of a state trooper along I-45 on Thanksgiving Day. Dabrett Black, 32, of Lindale was tracked down in a rural area of Waller County several hours after he allegedly gunned down Trooper Damon Allen during a traffic stop near Fairfield in Freestone County. Damon, 41, was a husband and father of three children, according to Texas DPS. He joined the agency in 2002. The shooting happened around 4:00 p.m. and...

AVOYELLES PARISH, La. — Two police officers and a Louisiana State Police trooper were shot Thursday afternoon in Avoyelles Parish, according to local reports. The shooting was reported in Moreauville near Avoyelles High School. Officials confirmed to KALB-TV that a state trooper, a Marksville police officer and a Simmesport police officer were shot after an apparent car chase in Hessmer. KALB reported that the trooper has non-life-threatening injuries, one of the officers was treated at the scene and the condition of the other officer is unknown. Officials said the gunman is barricaded and the shooting happened during the standoff. Additional...

A Louisiana state trooper sustained minor injuries Saturday (Jan. 21) when a man driving erratically along Interstate 12 near Hammond slammed into the back of his police SUV. The driver, Bradley Burch of Florida, was suspected to be high on heroin at the time of the crash, police said. Burch, who also suffered minor injuries in the crash, was booked into the Tangipahoa Parish Jail with DWI, reckless operation and driving with a suspended license, state police reported. Florida resident Kyle Nadler was traveling westbound on I-12 shortly after noon on Saturday when he witnessed a Dodge truck being driven...

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-Image from 12news.comIt was not just one good Samaritan that helped the wounded Arizona State Trooper.  We now know that there were at least three good Samaritans. The first was the man who was headed to California with his wife when he saw the Trooper, Edward Anderson, with an attacker on top of him, pounding Anderson’s head into the pavement, Trayvon Martin style. His ability to quickly assess the situation and take action is somewhat remarkable. The event occurred at milepost 89 on I-10, at about 4:30 a.m. There are no street lights in this remote area.  That...

Editor's Note: WAVE 3 News always strives to be respectful in tragic situations like this one. We do have a journalistic duty, however, to report on these incidents and shed as much light as possible on even horrific events. Clearly, the recording we've written about below and that is depicted in the video above sheds light on the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Trooper Ponder. As an aside, we took our cue from law enforcement sources who also posted the material online before we did. LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Audio of the final moments before a Kentucky State Trooper...

A Louisiana State Police dies Monday after authorities say he was shot in the head and then taunted when he stopped to provide aide to a man whose truck was stuck in a ditch............

BATON ROUGE - A trooper was injured and two people died in several crashes involving impaired drivers on Easter morning. In Baton Rouge Parish, troopers say Magen Alicia Hall was nearly double the legal alcohol limit when she allegedly plowed into that back of a trooper's SUV around 2:40 a.m. Sunday. State police say the trooper was already investigating an earlier crash involving a drunk driver on the side of I-12 near LA 3245 and O'Neal lane when 24-year-old Hall crashed into his Tahoe around 2:40 a.m. Sunday. Investigators say both the trooper and the arrested driver from the previous...

  BALTIMORE, January 17, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Maryland police and state troopers have lost their appeal to get immunity from a lawsuit filed against them by pro-life protesters they arrested and strip-searched in Bel Air, Maryland, according to a federal appeals court.The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Maryland in its jurisdiction, rejected an appeal by Bel Air police officers and Maryland state troopers who claimed they were acting in good faith when they arrested pro-life demonstrators with the Defend Life “Face the Truth Tour.” Defend Life is a Maryland-based pro-life group, which conducts an annual event...

RALEIGH -- A trooper who lost his job last year after having a drunken sexual encounter with another trooper's wife is back on the state payroll, this time as an investigator for the lottery. Former Sgt. Timothy J. White was dismissed from the N.C. Highway Patrol on June 2, 2009, for personal conduct unbecoming of an officer after an incident in the back seat of a car on the way home from a Christmas party. The woman's husband was in the front seat at the time. White then continued to contact the other trooper's wife, although his superiors told him...

DENVER – A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket. ">snip<"