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.
The Detroit Police Department is expanding a program of mental health crisis intervention teams after seeing success in the pilot program it launched in December. DPD Chief James E. White announced the decision to expand the program throughout the ...
A California SWAT sheriff's deputy and SWAT team member, who was also a Marine combat veteran, was killed Sunday while attempting to rescue hostages in central California. Kern County Sheriff's Deputy Phillip Campas was one of four deputies hit by ...
Almost 80 missing children were found in the first two months of a multiagency law enforcement effort in southern New Mexico known as Operation Rescue Me. One minor was located in Mexico. Officials with Homeland Security and the US Marshals ...
As a parting message for the 2021 Ben Kopp Memorial Ride, Jill Stephenson talked about how lightning can strike. Standing in front of roughly 200 motorcycle riders who had gathered for the ride Saturday, Stephenson talked about the time six years ...
Security camera footage released this week captures the moment a deputy in Biloxi, Mississippi, fires in midair as he falls over backward, retreating from a man with a knife. On Jan. 15, Harrison County Sheriff's Deputy Bobby Jackson confronted ...
Police in Florida and New York were caught on body cameras performing acts of courage and comfort with the same three words — "I got you" — as they helped a family escape a burning building and pulled a trapped woman from a flooded car. Officer ...
Before Mark Bezos became one half of the first pair of brothers to go to space together, he was in another brotherhood — that of firefighters. Alongside his brother, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the Blue Origin space company, Mark launched ...
A Texas community is mourning the loss of a sheriff’s deputy killed in a shootout Thursday. Four officers were shot by a man who tried to provoke a confrontation with police earlier in the day. After an extended standoff at the man's home, he opened ...
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department swore in a new member of the force Wednesday. He stood at attention — as all very good boys do in formal moments — though it wasn’t clear if he had to raise a paw for an oath. Satoshi, or Toshi for short, is a ...
Mechanics at a Southern California auto shop arrived at work Tuesday to hear what they thought were far-off cries for help. But no matter how carefully they listened, they couldn’t narrow down where the voice was coming from. After police ...
A California firefighter who has spent nearly 10 years on fire lines around the state said he’d never seen anything like the early months of the 2021 season. “I think that all of us are very nervous,” said the firefighter, who spoke to Coffee or ...
One officer gives the order: “Get out.” With that, two Toledo cops leave the safety of their patrol car and begin weaving through a dark landscape that has erupted in chaos. Around them, people run and scream, fleeing a Fourth of July block party ...
A wildfire spotting and control aircraft crashed in northwest Arizona Saturday, killing the pilot and a career firefighter. Pilot Matthew Miller, 48, and Air Tactical Group Supervisor Jeff Piechura, 62, were executing “visual reconnaissance and ...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a law Tuesday that prevents police from influencing the decisions of EMS medics to administer sedatives — particularly ketamine — to patients whom police are arresting. Ketamine is a powerful but largely safe and ...
Four law enforcement officers were shot and one was killed in two incidents Wednesday — one in Chicago, and the other about three hours away in Terre Haute, Indiana. One Chicago police officer and two agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, ...
The Fourth of July saw celebrations around the country, often with massive official fireworks displays for whole cities and towns, and other places with friends and neighbors shooting off their own. Most went off without a hitch. Some did ...
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which provides housing for Gold Star families, announced it would commemorate the 20th Veterans Day since 9/11 by reading the 7,059 names of all the American service members who have died fighting since the War on ...
The van was carrying nine people — an adult driver and eight children, the oldest 17, the youngest just 3, according to a press release from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. The children had been at an Alabama Sheriffs Youth Ranch, a retreat for ...
After a 19-year veteran police officer was shot and killed Monday in the Denver suburb of Arvada, Colorado, people across the community found ways to honor and say goodbye to Officer Gordon Beesley. Beesley was well-known in Arvada for his ...
A woman rushed out the door of her home, yelling for help. Her 2-month-old baby girl was motionless in her arms. Capt. Christopher Mavron, a US Air Force acquisitions officer assigned to US Special Operations Command, was just leaving his Navarre, ...
The union that represents police officers in Portland offered fiery support for the roughly 50 members of the city’s Rapid Response Team who resigned as a group from their positions yesterday. The resignations were in protest of the indictment of RRT ...
Supervisors inside the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) are accusing ambulance medics of taking more bathroom breaks than they need, according to one of the service’s union heads. As a result, the medics have started emailing their bosses ...
The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office outside Denver recently put three full-time mental health clinicians on duty to respond to 911 where mental health interdiction might be needed more than traditional police response. The department has had the ...
Brandon Bergeron lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and has watched for the last year as the city next door, Minneapolis, has faced round after round of protests and street violence stemming from the shootings and deaths of Black men by police during ...
According to a report from the US Department of Justice, police maintaining strong community engagement is critical to maintaining public safety and effective policing. “It is important for the police to be visible in their communities and know ...
The Chicago Police Department implemented a new interim foot pursuit policy this week with a final version due Sept. 1. “Because foot pursuits are one of the most dangerous actions that police officers can engage in, we cannot afford to wait any ...
It all happens in 6 seconds. Two police officers jump from their car as a man is walking — slowly, almost casually — toward them in an alley. The cops yells at him to stop. In a flash almost too quick to see, a gun appears. Everything is ...
For two years, criminals all over the world thought they were communicating on an encrypted chat and communications app called ANOM. Used by drug and crime syndicates in over 100 countries, the service allowed for apparently secure coordination for ...
Industrial Donut in Champaign, Illinois, gets a lot of requests for wild designs on their custom doughnuts. But last week, a customer who insisted on anonymity came in and ordered eight dozen police-themed donuts. Covered in blue, black, and white ...
It was Mother’s Day, and Jon Holt was on a late-night patrol down a rural Virginia highway when he saw a white SUV lose control. “I'm thinking headlights aren't supposed to be facing me right now,” the Gloucester County, Virginia, sheriff's deputy ...
