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.
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 ...
Shots rang out Tuesday morning in Los Angeles County Fire Station 81 as firefighters on duty there faced the nightmare of a gunman who was one of their own. A firefighter engineer was killed in the shooting, and another was critically injured. ...
An ambulance screamed through the streets of the Holy Cross neighborhood, shattering the early morning silence in New Orleans. Police raced ahead to block off intersections ahead of the ambulance to shave off every second they could the morning of ...
A Black Hawk firefighting helicopter crashed outside Leesburg, Florida, on Tuesday, killing all four on board. The helicopter was a modified civilian version of the Army's UH-60. The town’s small airport, about 50 miles northwest of Orlando, is ...
A caller to 911 said a man was shooting his neighbors and that a house had "exploded." The first officer on the scene was immediately fired upon. As officers arrived at a May 8 call in Baltimore, they found an almost unbelievably chaotic scene of ...
A Louisiana sheriff’s deputy who suffered catastrophic injuries in a 2016 drug raid died this weekend. Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Detective Stephen Arnold had been under 24-hour care in a medical facility since being shot five times in ...
Artillery impacted around the small fishing boat where a young family — 9-year-old Minh Van Nguyen, his mother, and his eight siblings — huddled for cover. Though 50 people were crammed on the boat as it rocked in the harbor of Vũng Tàu, 50 miles ...
Baltimore is launching a 911 Diversion Pilot program that will dispatch mental health specialists for some 911 calls. The program hopes to make police, firefighters, and medics more available for acute emergencies while getting appropriate help to ...
The horror started almost before the day did, and for 36 awful hours in Tempe, Arizona, last weekend, it kept getting worse. Just past 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, a woman flagged down Tempe police officers and told them she was hearing voices telling ...
NYPD Transit police officers saved a fellow New Yorker’s life Sunday afternoon after seeing him fall onto the tracks in front of an arriving A train. Police saw a man, who experienced what the New York City Police Department is calling a ...
Frank Arivello, a law enforcement park ranger in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, choked up talking about his friend and fellow ranger, Thomas Booz. “I worked with Tom for 11 years, and he was my son’s godfather. He was only one and half when Tom ...
A Stockton police officer viewed as a hometown hero among the city's Cambodian American community was killed Tuesday in a shooting that officials are calling an ambush. Jimmy Inn, a 30-year-old Cambodian American officer, was well-known on the block ...
A fender-bender accident in Fairfield, California, led to a memorable Mother’s Day for police officers in town, and for some local moms. Following a car accident Sunday, officers arrested a man for driving under the influence. When the driver ...
Firefighter helicopters, bulldozers, and airplanes —oh my! When a wildfire sparked in the scrubby hills outside Sacramento, California, on May 1, Cal Fire sent ground crews, machinery, and multiple aircraft after it, in what was both a rapid response ...
Five Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were transported to a hospital Monday after all were temporarily overcome with sickness after entering a home. A hazmat team was unable to determine the cause of the mass-sickness event. Sheriff’s ...
On the day before her first Mother’s Day as a mom herself, New York City Police Department cop Alyssa Vogel rushed to save another mom’s child. Vogel was inside her precinct near Times Square — one of the most heavily trafficked tourists spots on ...
US Army Capt. Kaitlyn Hernandez, the company commander of the 717th Ordnance Disposal Company, smashed the world record for running 1 mile in an explosive ordnance disposal suit April 3, 2021, during the second-annual EOD Bomb Suit Run event. She ...
California fire officials are preparing for a fire season that is already seven times more destructive than 2020’s and shows every sign of getting worse. “Every acre in California can and will burn someday, and whether you had a fire near you or ...
Mary Kubik was worried about the scholarship named for her brother. Ronald Kubik was a 21-year-old Ranger when he was killed in eastern Afghanistan on April 23, 2010. In the years since, Mary Kubik has helped with a scholarship two of his teachers ...
Carved on the front of the US Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, are the words of Navy Adm. Chester Nimitz, who said that on Iwo Jima, “uncommon valor was a common virtue.” But Sunday, local firefighters needed to lend a hand after ...
Chandler Police Department Officer Christopher Farrar was a family man who had been decorated four times in his 18-year career for saving a life in the line of duty. He was killed Thursday night when a man fleeing police stole a vehicle from a car ...
Chicago Police Department Officer Julius Givens looks like the kind of cop who could carry you to safety: tall, strong, barrel-chested. But when he and his partner found themselves the only available help for a grievously wounded 13-year-old boy, it ...
After a record-breaking number of synthetic opioid deaths in the last year, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Project Wave Breaker this week, a national operation targeted at the influx of the drugs. The Centers for Disease Control and ...
Signaling a new approach to federal oversight of local police departments, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has opened investigations into police departments in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Louisville, Kentucky. US Attorney General ...
A fake image circulated on Twitter this week that appeared to show the official Chicago Police Department Twitter account making a statement in solidarity with former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. The image, appearing to be a screenshot ...
A fiery Tesla crash that made national headlines this week ended up being a learning experience for the fire department called to put it out and creating a little heat for the department’s chief. “Thanks a lot Dad,” read a text that The Woodland’s ...
After a 13-year-old was killed by a police officer in Chicago last weekend following a chaotic foot chase, Mayor Lori Lightfoot discussed the issue of police giving chase to suspects in a press conference Thursday. “Dangerous for [police ...
