Joshua is a staff writer for Coffee or Die Magazine. He has previously covered the 75th anniversary of D-Day in France, multinational military exercises in Germany, and civil unrest during the 2020 riots that followed the death of George Floyd. Born and raised in small town South Dakota, Josh grew up playing football and soccer before going on to serve as a forward observer in the U.S. Army. After leaving the service, he earned his Crossfit Level 1 certificate and worked as a personal trainer while earning his paramedic license. Josh went on to work in paramedicine for over five years, much of that time in the North Minneapolis area, before transitioning to his career in multimedia journalism. Josh is married and has two children, and is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism. His creative outlets include Skovlund Photography and Concentrated Emotion, which is where he publishes poetry focused on his life experiences.
Chicago's public outrage was reignited after an officer involved shooting sent the suspect to the hospital Sunday. Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers were shot at during a foot pursuit and returned fire, critically wounding the suspect. The ...
On Feb. 28, 2015, Staff Sgt. Sebastiana Lopez stepped out of her apartment on an early Saturday morning in Charleston, South Carolina. The humidity was low, making a good day for a motorcycle ride. As she went back into her apartment to swap her car ...
On April 6, 2007, Mike Day was the lead man on a raid against an al Qaeda cell that had been attacking US troops in Iraq’s Anbar province. As Day breached the door, a barrage of gunfire hit his rifle, knocking it out of his hands. He immediately ...
Gary Linfoot served in the US Army as a pilot for 23 years. Most of his time was spent with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), where he deployed 21 times, first to Afghanistan followed by 20 rotations to Iraq. On May 31, 2008, ...
The missing pieces of body camera footage from the May in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis were released Monday by the Daily Mail with the leaked video embedded in the article. The footage shows an anxious and distraught Floyd as ...
Due to rising crime rates, last week the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) sent letters to residents within Minneapolis' 3rd Precinct warning them to "be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse or wallet." The 3rd precinct sustained 100 ...
Tony Sutter was at work when he noticed photos of a vandalized sign pop up on his neighborhood watch group on Facebook Sunday afternoon. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a Purple Heart City, which falls under the Purple Heart Trail program. One of their ...
Earlier this year, the US-Taliban peace deal called on the Taliban to release at least 1,000 Afghan prisoners. On Thursday, the Taliban released another 82 Afghan government prisoners, bringing the total to 1,005. The Afghanistan government has ...
A unique environment exists within the walls of the Gwinnett County Jail in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Mutual respect between the deputies and inmates is a real thing, and it was on display Tuesday when Deputy Warren Hobbs fell ill while supervising the ...
Among the standard 911 calls that paramedics and EMTs answer daily, a handful always seem to involve people doing bizarre things. While EMT and paramedic programs teach up-and-coming EMS providers how to identify and treat conditions, injuries, and ...
Minneapolis police have identified a suspect they believe may be the mystery "Umbrella Man" caught on video smashing out windows of an AutoZone May 28 during protests after George Floyd's death The suspect is a member of the Hells Angels ...
he sun was fading behind Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush mountains the evening of June 27, 2005, as a team of four U.S. Navy SEALs walked up the ramp and into the back of U.S. Army Captain Matt Brady’s MH-47 Chinook helicopter on Bagram Air Base. Tasked ...
When there's something strange, in the neighborhood — who you gonna call? EMS! Whether it's your loved one or a bystander who is in need of medical attention, it is the job of EMS to respond and do their best to stabilize and transport the person or ...
Phillip Blanks served as a U.S. Marine with 1st Battalion, 4th Marines as a maintenance management specialist for four years. D'Artagnan Alexander is a barber by trade and a CEO/musician at Kontraband Entertainment. Neither man knew the other prior ...
In Minneapolis, 150 police officers have retained local law firm Meuser, Yackley, and Rowland P.A. for legal protection while filing workers' compensation and disability in regards to physical injury and PTSD. Garrett Parten, a Minneapolis Police ...
The Department of Defense (DOD) announced the death of 24-year-old First Lieutenant Joseph Trent Allbaugh today. The Folsom, California, native died July 12 due to a non-combat related incident in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The investigation into ...
The new Twin Cities Violent Crime Task Force (VCTF) was announced Wednesday by United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald. This decision comes after gun violence and violent crime has sky rocketed in the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, ...
At approximately 8:30 a.m. today, a fire was located aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard as it was moored pier side at the Naval Base San Diego, according to a tweet by the Naval Surface Forces account. The account noted there were 160 sailors aboard at ...
The St. Petersburg Police Department announced significant reforms with the planned implementation of a new division within the department. This division, the Community Assistance Liaison (CAL), will be a social service organization on retainer. It ...
People often simplify the work of emergency medical services (EMS) by using terms like “ambulance driver” to describe the men and women who respond to medical emergencies in an ambulance, implying that all they do is transport sick or injured ...
An investigation is currently underway after Bryan "B.J." Boatman, a 37-year-old pilot, died yesterday after his helicopter crashed while moving supplies for firefighters on the ground in Tonto National Forest, Arizona. There are at least 360 ...
The origin of the American sniper is vague, with reports dating back as early as the American Revolution. The first established peacetime sniper school within the U.S. military was the U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper course in Quantico, Virginia, in ...
Elements of the Georgia National Guard are being ordered into Atlanta after violence and crime in the city skyrocketed over the last several weeks. According to an Atlanta Police Department COBRA report, from June 14 to June 20, there were 21 ...
On Saturday, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced the death of 21-year-old Specialist Vincent Sebastian Ibarria, who died on July 3 in Farah, Afghanistan after a rollover accident occurred while supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel ...
The onset of the novel coronavirus and its subsequent disease, COVID-19, started a race to find a vaccine to prevent further spread of the virus and the mayhem left in its wake. Paramedics, EMTs, nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers have ...
Cases of COVID-19 are rising again, potentially signaling a second wave of the worldwide pandemic. This comes as some states in the U.S. are slowly reopening their economies and as widespread civil unrest has led to large groups gathering for ...
Atlanta police officers were sitting patiently in their headquarters, squad cars, and at home when District Attorney Paul Howard announced charges against officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan on June 17. The swift charges brought against the ...
New York City has experienced a steady increase in gun violence since the disbanding of the NYPD's Anti-Crime Units. The ACUs were plainclothes officers who were staffed at each precinct and city housing. Their primary mission was to remove illegal ...
U.S. Army Specialist Nick Bravo Regules, 20, died during a non-combat related incident Tuesday in Jordan while in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the Department of Defense announced Wednesday. Regules was assigned to 2nd Battalion, ...
The job of America's police officers is to serve and protect those in their community, but sometimes that means taking on mother nature. While the men and women who wear the badge come into contact with some of the worst sides of humanity, they ...
