A Georgia police officer died Thursday after a driver tried to escape a traffic stop and dragged the officer until the vehicle crashed. Holly Springs Police Officer Joe Burson, 25, fired his service weapon at the driver, identified as 29-year-old Ansy Dolce, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. Officers on the scene rendered first aid …
On Tuesday, a Georgia police department publicly denied allegations that officers outwardly ignored a drive-by that occurred in January. “Inaccurate” was the word Atantla police used in a statement to describe a Daily Mail story that accused their department of disregarding the January 3 shooting in Buckhead, an affluent commercial and residential district in Atlanta. The …
A Florida man allegedly threw a 2-month-old boy at a deputy following a police car chase. Indian River County police released dashcam and aerial footage on Friday showing the May 26 incident involving officers and suspect John Henry James III, 32. James allegedly led police on a 40-minute chase after officers attempted to pull him …
A Massachusetts police officer and the Worcester teenager he was trying to save both drowned Friday afternoon at a pond in Green Hill Park. Police were called to the scene at about 1:30 p.m., Worcester Police Chief Steven Sargent said, and found three people struggling in the pond, particularly one boy in the center, MassLive …
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Recently-released footage shows last year’s death of a Tennessee county jail inmate who had several officers on top of him in the moments leading up to his death. WTVF, the news outlet that acquired the Marshall County Jail footage, reported that William Jennette’s daughter federal filed a lawsuit alleging officers fatally beat and suffocated Jennette, …
A video released on Tuesday appears to show a Virginia deputy lift an overturned car to rescue a woman trapped underneath. The Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that the incident occurred on May 7. Deputy Jon Holt reportedly responded to an overturned vehicle and discovered a woman trapped underneath with her …
A North Carolina district attorney is expected to announce whether any of the deputies involved in a fatal shooting last month will face criminal charges. As CBS reports, Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble will hold a press conference in Elizabeth City at 11 a.m. ET., to discuss the results of the investigation into the …
Four Alabama SWAT officers were shot early Sunday morning when they tracked the suspect in a double homicide to a Birmingham apartment, where the suspect opened fire on them as they entered. Birmingham Police Sgt Rod Mauldin said the team returned fire and struck the suspect, killing him, according to AL.com. Police have not yet …
Phoenix police have arrested a couple who reported their truck stolen with a toddler inside earlier this week after determining they had made up the story about the baby to prompt police to speed up the search for their stolen vehicle. Police launched an intensive search for the green, 1999 Ford F-250 pickup truck that …
A frustrated cop’s emotional TikTok video touched a few hearts over the weekend as he ranted that he was “so goddamn tired” of constantly hearing “that maybe law enforcement is just not a good thing.”
Maj Kelvin Dingle, the operational commander at the Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Public Safety in Atlanta, told Fox News that most police officers are “good-hearted people that want to make a difference” and that day he’d just “had enough.”
Lawyers representing Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of killing George Floyd, have filed an appeal for a new trial, arguing that Chauvin did not have a fair trial this spring. NBC News reports that Chauvin’s attorney Eric Nelson filed the appeal on Tuesday, requesting a new trial after Chauvin was …
