The Minneapolis City Council held a virtual meeting termed a “study session” with the chief of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD), Chief Medaria Arradondo, to discuss citizens' concerns about a spike in the crime rate. Various city council ...
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service announced that a firefighter died Thursday in the California wildfires, confirming the death is in connection with the El Dorado wildfire that started in California. The ...
Oregon is preparing for a “mass fatality incident,” said Andrew Phelps, director of the Oregon Office of Emergency Management, during a Friday press conference with Gov. Kate Brown. At the time they did not have an official count of verified ...
After an officer from the Lancaster City Bureau of Police shot and killed Ricardo Munoz Sunday afternoon, authorities released body-camera footage of the incident within just a few hours. The video appears to show Munoz chasing a police officer ...
Two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies from the Transit Services Bureau were ambushed outside of the MLK Transit Center in Compton, California, at approximately 7 p.m. Saturday. Both officers were shot multiple times and are in critical condition, ...
Several shootings involving police have occurred this year, bringing on an outpouring of civil unrest in the form of widespread protests or riots, and cries for reform to reduce police brutality and institutional racism. “Defund the police” has ...
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed Wednesday on Twitter that 29-year-old Dalton Potter, the suspected shooter of Whitfield County Sheriff's Deputy Darrell Hackney, has been arrested. According to a GBI press release, Hackney pulled over ...
On Aug. 23, 2020, Kristin Kaminski was enjoying a day off with her wife at home when she saw the video of Kenosha police officers shooting Jacob Blake seven times at point-blank range. The video went viral on social media, and the nation's attention ...
After Washington, DC police officer Alexander Alvarez shot and killed 18-year-old Deon Kay in southeast Washington Thursday, it took less than 24 hours for the department to release Alvarez’s body-camera footage. The footage appears to show Kay ...
Detective James Skernivitz, a 25-year law enforcement veteran with the Cleveland Police Department (CPD), was announced dead Thursday night after an incident involving an unknown number of suspects. CPD tweeted at 2:27 a.m. Friday, “On September ...
Chicago Police Department (CPD) Public Information Officer Kellie Bertoli confirmed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned the Chicago Police Department of a potential threat that gangs in the area have put out a “kill on sight” order on ...
Operation Safety Net, the US Marshals Service-led child trafficking task force in Ohio, has located 25 missing children as of Saturday, according to a US Marshals press release. In addition, Operation Moving Target, led by the Ohio Internet Crimes ...
Wisconsin Sen. Steve Nass released a statement Friday issued by the Kenosha Professional Police Association (KPPA) and the officers involved in the Jacob Blake shooting, providing the officers’ version of events. Kenosha Police Officer Rusten ...
A Daytona Beach Police Department (DBPD) officer was shot in the chest during an apartment shootout on Saturday. The gunfight ended with two officers injured, the suspect dead, and an officer's body camera video footage capturing it all. On ...
On Sunday night, the St. Louis Police Department (SLPD) announced that an officer died after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head. Officer Tamarris L. Bohannon had served with the SLPD for three and a half years. The department tweeted, “It is ...
This story was originally published Aug. 28, 2020, by ProPublica. This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad. What a week. Rough for ...
On Thursday, Operation Not Forgotten concluded with 39 missing children found. The operation was conducted over a two-week period in Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, during the month of August. The US Marshal Service Missing Child Unit, USMS Southeast ...
Across the US, first responders are responding to natural and manmade disasters. Police have been inundated with rising murder rates, attacks on their precincts, and assault during riots. Emergency Medical Service providers have been subjected to ...
An officer with the Lincoln, Nebraska, Police Department was shot and critically wounded while conducting a warrant arrest Wednesday, according to a press release from the department. Law enforcement officers from the Metro Area Fugitive Task ...
Jacob Blake, the Black man shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer Sunday, had a knife in his possession, the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) said in a press release ...
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers responded Wednesday to an urgent request from local leaders in Kenosha to send additional National Guard troops to the city after three consecutive nights of protests and rioting caused widespread destruction and left two ...
Former Army Ranger Thomas Owen Baker knows something about using deadly force in the line of duty. Baker, who served for nearly nine years as a police officer in Phoenix, was responding to a domestic violence call June 8, 2009, when he ordered a man ...
Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old Black man shot at least seven times by Kenosha Police Department (KPD) officers in Wisconsin Sunday, is in stable condition but may be paralyzed from the waist down, Blake's father told the Chicago Sun-Times. A ...
BEAVERTON, Oregon — In a scene familiar to many Portland residents, political ideologies clashed in often violent confrontations between right-wing demonstrators and counterprotesters in the area around the Multnomah County Justice Center in downtown ...
After Adam Haner crashed his truck in downtown Portland on the night of Sunday, Aug. 16, and was beaten unconscious in the street, myriad videos of the brutal beating circulated in local and national media. Conflicting or inaccurate information ...
Officer Dan Horgan heard a noise behind him. It was the metallic clink of a bullet being racked into the chamber of a semi-automatic pistol — a sound he recognized from his training in both the military and law enforcement. Time froze. He had to move ...
The FBI is investigating the credibility of a threat that a vehicle filled with explosives would hit a federal building in Portland, The Oregonian reported Friday morning. In response to the threat, all federal buildings in Portland have been ...
It was a hot summer day on July 13, 2017, in Depoe Bay, Oregon. The driver of a large box truck was cruising through a construction zone when he misread traffic. As he overcorrected the steering wheel, he dislodged the containers of hagfish in his ...
As a rookie with the Los Angeles Police Department, Charles Bennett was sitting in his squad car with his white partner when the senior officer turned to Bennett and said, “You're not black, I'm not white — we're blue. And trust me; if something ever ...
Attorney General William Barr announced Wednesday that a Department of Justice anticrime initiative launched July 8 has led to 1,485 arrests across nine US cities. Barr made the announcement at a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri, where ...
