Prodded by nationwide calls for police reform, all members of the US Marshals Service will now wear body cameras when capturing federal fugitives. The first phase of the camera mandate began with interim policy guidance signed Oct. 6 by the ...
Angelina Liu, Miracle Daughter of Fallen NYPD Detective, Is Recognized as His by New York
Angelina Liu will never meet her father. A gang member assassinated the New York Police Department detective and his partner in 2014, about two and a half years before his daughter was born. The miracle birth to Angelina's widowed mother, Pei ...
FBI Raids New York Cop Union HQ, Sergeants’ Boss Resigns
Hours after FBI agents armed with search warrants raided his home and office, Edward D. Mullins resigned as the powerful president of New York City’s Sergeants Benevolent Association. A statement emailed Tuesday, Oct. 5, to the police union’s ...
Gunfire on a Tucson Train: 1 DEA Agent Dead, 2 Others Wounded
Authorities continue to probe the death of a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was shot and killed Monday, Oct. 4, in a Tucson, Arizona, train station. In a prepared statement emailed to Coffee or Die Magazine on Tuesday afternoon, DEA ...
Pummeled With Piss and Punches, Paramedics and EMTs Demand More Help at Rikers
Inmates at New York City’s infamous Rikers Island jail routinely batter paramedics and emergency medical technicians with poop, spit, piss, and punches, forcing first responders to fend for themselves inside violent cell blocks, officials say. At ...
Fueled by Chinese Chemicals, Mexican Knockoff Narcotics Threaten US Communities
The US Drug Enforcement Administration issued a rare public health warning Monday, Sept. 27, designed to help curb the skyrocketing number of drug overdose deaths nationwide. The DEA wants Americans to be aware of a record and rising flood of cheap ...
‘They Are Literally Waiting for Us To Die Off’ — Paramedics Battle Bureaucrats in Brooklyn
A crowd of first responders gathered in front of the Brooklyn headquarters of the New York City Employees' Retirement System on Tuesday, Sept. 28, to protest what they say is a failed effort to compensate them for toxic exposures at the World Trade ...
Hero Houston Cop To Be Buried in Texas
Slain Houston Police Department Senior Officer William "Bill" Jeffrey will be buried Monday in Texas. Jeffrey, who spent more than three decades on the force, died Monday, Sept. 20, after being shot while trying to serve a warrant in the city. He was ...
Customs and Border Protection Spied on Americans: What You Need To Know
US Customs and Border Protection spied on American citizens, blocked their international travel, and compromised their personal information to foreign agents, according to a scathing report that Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General ...
Albany Balks at Rubber Bullet, Tear Gas Ban
Municipal lawmakers in New York’s capital refused this month to ban tear gas and other less-lethal munitions, the latest setback in a national movement to curb police responses against protesters. On Sept. 9, the Albany Common Council tabled a bid ...
Burnover: Shocking Video Reveals Daring Hellscape Drive
For at least 109 seconds, the night turned orange as a towering blaze closed over the firefighters. Captured in a video shot Sept. 10 from inside the cab of a truck, at least two men can be heard screaming obscenities, shouting directions, and ...
‘That’s My Girl’: A 9/11 Journey of Love That Took 200 Miles and 2 Decades
Denise Olsen cares so much about New York City’s firefighters that she took more than 500,000 steps to tell them. Olsen, 52, is a widow. Her husband, Jeffrey Olsen, died on Sept. 11, 2001. He was a Ladder 10 firefighter. The World Trade Center ...
A Package Deal: Meth Peanuts, Box Turtles, Parasitic Wasps, and King Cobras
If today is like pretty much any other day, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers will seize more than a ton of illegal drugs nationwide. And they'll probably seize a few really weird things, too — sea turtle shells, a box of parasitic ...
The Puck Stops Here: New York Cops and Firefighters Hold Hockey Match To Honor 9/11 Heroes
New York City's finest and bravest are battling for Big Apple bragging rights in the Hockey Heroes match on the night of Thursday, Sept. 9. For the 47th year, hockey teams representing New York City’s fire and police departments take to the ...
Feds Seize 25K Canadian Loonies in Tennessee
Sure, cops catch loonies all day long. But it’s not every day that federal agents haul in 25,000 of them at once. On Tuesday, Sept. 7, US Customs and Border Protection in Memphis, Tennessee, seized 25,000 Canadian loonies — worth about $19,700 in ...
Ida in New York: Could a ‘Fifth Firefighter’ Have Saved More Lives?
When a massive storm triggered flash floods across New York Sept. 1, only 20 of the city’s 193 engine companies put more than four firefighters on a truck. The “fifth fireman” was standard through the 1970s, but penny-pinching administrations ...
New York Firefighters Bravely Battled Ida, but Did Understaffing Hamper Rescues?
Lt. Shamus Fitzgerald and his Engine 271 crew were chest-deep in floodwater on Thursday, Sept. 2, and the sewer water was rising. The Brooklyn-based firefighters needed to reach a motorist screaming for help and waving a flashlight in a minivan. ...
Inside the Grand Jury Indictment of 3 Colorado Cops and 2 Paramedics
More than two years after Elijah McClain died in custody, a Colorado grand jury returned a 32-count indictment against two firefighter medics and three police officers, one of whom is no longer an officer. McClain, 23, died Aug. 30, 2019, six days ...
‘Fair Winds and Following Seas’ to Marine Cpl. Hunter Lopez
Cpl. Hunter Lopez hoped to keep living a life of service when his Marine Corps career ended. Both his mother and father serve in California’s Riverside County Sheriff’s Department — Herman Lopez is a captain, and Alicia is a deputy. Hunter ...
1 Rescued From Crashed Seahawk off San Diego Coast, 5 Missing
One of the six missing crew members of an MH-60S Seahawk that crashed in the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, Aug. 31, near San Diego has been found. The Seahawk crashed during “routine flight operations” approximately 60 nautical miles off the coast of ...
Did Capitol Police Know Ashli Babbitt’s Shooter Was Going To ID Himself?
After eight months of silence, US Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd’s decision to out himself on TV on Thursday, Aug. 26, as the officer who killed Ashli Babbitt surprised many Americans, perhaps including his own law enforcement agency. When Coffee ...
COVID-19 Kills Police, but Should There Be a Vaccine Mandate for Officers?
If today is like most days in 2021, COVID-19 will kill a police officer. Since the beginning of the year, America has averaged more than one death daily among its law enforcement officers, according to data compiled by the National Fraternal ...
Surging Support: Charities Aid Military Families With Free Food and Diapers
In an ongoing push to aid junior service members, military charities recently surged support to Joint Base Andrews. Held Aug. 11 at the sprawling Maryland base, the Military Market and Enlisted Service Celebration distributed 5,000 diapers and ...
Dry, Windy Weather Pushes Historic California Wildfire Past 700,000 Acres
The Dixie Fire burning across five counties in Northern California exceeded 700,000 acres Friday, Aug. 20, with high winds and arid conditions fanning the flames. The Dixie Fire is the largest single fire in California’s history, but if its ...
Special Tactics Airmen and Coast Guard Bring Crucial Help to Haiti
US Air Force Special Tactics airmen and the Coast Guard are on the ground providing assistance to Haitians following a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Saturday, Aug. 14, and a tropical depression Monday that brought widespread flooding to Haiti. The ...
Update: Bomb-Threat Suspect Surrenders to Capitol Police After Standoff
Federal and local law enforcement are responding to a bomb threat near the US Capitol and evacuating multiple buildings. A man drove his black pickup truck onto the sidewalk directly in front of the Library of Congress midday Thursday, Aug. 19, US ...
An Afghan Translator Became a US Soldier — Now He Fears for His Family
Born in Kabul, Fardeen Wafa became a translator for the US military when he was 17. By the time he was 24, he was an American citizen and an American soldier. This week, as his home country fell, he’s been awake day and night in breathless text ...
Afghan General: Taliban Committing War Crimes, Searching for Targets ‘House by House’
The Taliban are advancing across Afghanistan quickly, committing war crimes as they seize control of huge swaths of the country, an Afghan general told Coffee or Die Magazine Friday, Aug. 13. Lt. Gen. Farid Ahmadi is the former commanding general ...
‘These Are Dangerous People’ — Brothers Charged in Deadly Shooting of Chicago Officer
Two brothers have been charged in the fatal shooting of Chicago police officer Ella French and the wounding of a second officer during a traffic stop over the weekend. Emonte Morgan, 21, is charged with first-degree murder, two counts of attempted ...
California’s Dixie Fire Exceeds 500K Acres, Becomes Largest Single Fire in State History
California’s largest single fire in state history surpassed 500,000 acres Wednesday, Aug. 11. The Dixie Fire has forced more than 30,000 residents to flee the area and has drawn thousands of firefighting personnel from local, state, and federal ...