An Arizona police officer was on administrative leave on Friday, a day after a cellphone video was released which reportedly showed him wrestle a 15-year-old quadruple amputee to the ground during an arrest last month. According to The Arizona Daily Star, Pima County deputy Manuel Van Santen is on leave amid an internal investigation into …
Pima County police also arrested the 16-year-old who filmed the controversial arrest
A Texas officer who fatally shot a resident in her own home last month was filmed saying, without hesitation, that he has no issue killing someone during a recently-released job interview video. KXAS obtained footage of Aaron Dean’s 2017 interview with the Fort Worth Police Department. During the 17-minute video, a five-officer review panel asked …
North Carolina police have arrested David Adams Jr for impersonating a police officer earlier this month during a police chase of a suspect vehicle, CBS 17 reported. The strange incident began at about 11 p.m. on October 5 when Wilson police officers attempted a stop on a vehicle occupied by five males, one of whom …
An off-duty Dallas police officer mistook his own son for an intruder and shot him Saturday evening, WFAA reported, citing the DeSoto Police Department. The man called 911, identifying himself as an off duty officer, and said he’d accidentally shot hit son. DeSoto officials have not released details of the shooting but said it took …
– Bodycam footage recently released shows an Austin police officer trying to rescue a man who was swept under by floodwaters in a creek overflooded by rain.
– The incident happened off of North Bluff Drive in South Austin near I-35 and William Cannon Drive.
– A soaked campsite was spotted nearby.
– Police warn that sudden rainfall in Central Texas is a year-round risk.
– After rescuing a man clinging to a tree, the officers fell in the waters. A backup officer helped pull him to safety.
A Dallas probate judge signed a temporary restraining order on Friday against Atatiana Jefferson’s family, stopping her funeral and burial and giving full authority for the services to her father, Marquis Jefferson, WFAA reported. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her nephew in her home on October 5 when she was shot and …
An 18-year-old Florida teen accused of taking his girlfriend’s car without permission was apparently pushed off of the roof of a home by a Kissimmee police officer. The Kissimmee Police Department said the incident was handled incorrectly and shouldn’t have happened. ABC 9 reports that Officer Plenio Massiah arrived at a Kissimmee residence to question …
An off-duty sergeant with the New York Police Department reportedly committed suicide in his home. The New York Post reports that the unidentified officer fatally shot himself at home in the Utopia section of Queens. His wife reportedly found him lying in a pool of blood at 8 p.m. on Tuesday. The officer’s death marks …
Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson in her home, CBS DFW reported. The arrest came just hours after Dean, who is white, resigned ahead of being fired over the weekend incident. Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her 8-year-old …
The police officer who reportedly shot and killed a Texas woman inside of her own home this weekend has resigned amid calls for his arrest. On Monday, Fort Worth police interim Chief Ed Kraus identified the officer who killed Atatiana Jefferson, 28, as Aaron Dean, and said he issued his resignation before he could be …
– NYPD officer Brian Mulkeen was killed Sunday night while wrestling an armed suspect in the Bronx
– Thousands of the six-year veteran’s colleagues attended his funeral on Friday in Monroe
– Mulkeen worked for the department’s anti-crime unit at the 44th precinct
– “He was the best of the best,” NYPD Captain Jeffrey Heilig said of the fallen officer
