The police officers involved in the shooting of a Sudanese asylum seeker who knifed six people are being investigated after they failed to subdue him with tasers. Police tasered the attacker, Badreddin Abadlla Adam, a Sudanese asylum seeker, at the Park Inn hotel, Glasgow, on...
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Anti-lockdown protesters clash with police in Melbourne – officers use pepper spray
A police horse has been attacked with a pole and punches were thrown at officers who retaliated with pepper spray during a wild anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne. The ‘Freedom Day’ rally which began at the Shrine of Remembrance at 2pm Friday spread across the city centre,...
Officers investigate allegations of mail-in ballot backup in Miami-Dade
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – U.S. Post Office investigators are looking into allegations on Friday that there is a mail-in ballot backup at a facility in southern Miami-Dade County. House Democratic Leader Kionne McGhee said tweeted a video showing mail piled up in bins. “The person...
Two New Orleans officers ‘ambushed’ by gunman in pedicab
A gunman riding in a pedicab blasted his weapon into the police car of two New Orleans officers on Friday afternoon — but both ambushed cops will survive, including one who now has a bullet lodged in his skull, authorities said. The officers were on...
New Orleans cop shot in the face after two officers were “ambushed” by suspect, police superintendent says
A police officer in New Orleans was shot in the face after he and another officer were “ambushed” by a suspect on Friday afternoon, police superintendent Shaun Ferguson told reporters. The officer now has a bullet lodged in his skull, and is in serious but...
Nice police chief praises local officers for confronting knifeman | World news
Nice’s municipal police chief has described how his officers confronted and shot the knifeman who killed three people in the Notre-Dame basilica on Thursday. Local officers have been praised for their quick reaction in confronting 21-year-old Tunisian man Brahim Aouissaoui who had entered the church...
Retired Minnesota police officers asked to be Trump poll watchers in ‘rough neighborhoods’
A volunteer attorney for the Trump 2020 campaign is asking the Minneapolis Police Federation to gather retired officers to help watch polling places in “rough neighborhoods.” William Willingham sent an email to Minneapolis Police Federation President Lt. Bob Kroll on Wednesday, asking him to recruit 20 to...
NYPD officers caught on video blasting ‘Trump 2020’ from patrol car loudspeaker
NYPD cop is suspended without pay for yelling ‘Trump 2020’ from his patrol car loudspeaker in Brooklyn after de Blasio called it ‘unacceptable’ The incident took place in Flatbush around 9.50pm Saturday, locals say One witness said the police officers started to chant Trump 2020...
Deer with head stuck in plastic pumpkin rescued by New Jersey animal control officers
This is like that episode of “The Office” where Dwight gets his head stuck in a pumpkin, only much, much sadder. Animal control officers in Montclair, N.J. were alerted to a wildlife emergency on Tuesday, after concerned residents reported seeing a deer running through town...
Police officers named part of their office where black colleague sat ‘African corner’
A specialist police crime unit with an ‘abhorrent racist culture’ named a section of its office ‘African Corner’, a misconduct hearing was told today. The squad had placed a map of the continent above the area in the office where two men of African heritage...