A family is rejecting Chicago police and the medical examiner’s finding that a 15-year-old boy died from a self-inflicted gunshot last week during an on-foot chase with officers. Per the Chicago Sun-Times, Steven Rosenthal’s relatives marched with activists in protest on Sunday after the Cook County medical examiner’s office backed law enforcement’s account, ruling Rosenthal’s death a …
Newly released video shows the tense moments when a Florida deputy rescued a 3-year-old girl after she was reportedly left in a hot car for more than 12 hours. According to WESH, Seminole County police were called to the Vista Haven Apartments early June 17 following reports of a child locked in a stolen car. …
Authorities in Georgia are defending the actions of officers involved in an encounter with an elderly woman in Chatsworth last week. According to Fox News, police responded to an area adjacent to 87-year-old Martha Al-Bishara’s home and found her with a knife. Authorities had been informed of the situation by a concerned local who called …
A routine traffic stop turned deadly for a motorcycle trooper and the driver he detained on the roadside along Interstate 80 in California this week. According to KTVU, California Highway Patrol officer Kirk Griess stopped a Saturn SUV around 9 a.m. on Friday near the Manuel Campos Parkway in Fairfield. A passing vehicle reportedly struck …
Authorities in Pennsylvania say an officer was shot during what started as an ordinary traffic stop over a speeding violation. According to the New York Post, two law enforcement officers were involved in the incident, which occurred last year. New footage of the incident reveals what transpired just prior to a gunfight that left state …
Prosecutors in Tennessee have released disturbing footage that shows the moment an officer opened fire on a black man running away from him. The death of 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick has sparked widespread backlash in Nashville since the July 26 shooting. Graphic footage released this week by the Nashville district attorney’s office added to the protests …
A 10-year-old Iowa girl is looking for a different way to continue toward her dream of owning a bakery after her mother said neighbors called police multiple times to report that she was selling cookies at the end of their street. According to the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Savannah Watters had set up her wagon …
Ohio officials believe a police chief who fatally overdosed on drugs stole the narcotics from his own department’s evidence room, authorities announced Wednesday. Kirkersville Police Chief, 35-year-old James Hughes Jr., was found dead in his bathroom May 25, with packages of fentanyl, heroin and LSD strewn about the living room of his home—drugs that Reynoldsburg …
Police fatally shot a Colorado man moments after he killed a naked intruder who attacked his 11-year-old grandson, an attorney representing the slain man’s family said. According to The Denver Post, attorney Siddhartha Rathod said the suspect who broke into Richard Black’s Aurora home early Monday was nude and tried to drown Black’s grandson in a …
Police departments around the country are daring one another to participate in a social media phenomenon called the #LipSyncChallenge. The Norfolk Sherrif’s Office in Virginia is one of the many police departments to join in. Their nearly 5-minute video begins with Flo Rida’s “My House” then goes to a courtroom dance off that includes a …
A struggle on Highway I-10 Wednesday night left one Arizona State Trooper dead and another injured after a suspect reportedly got ahold of a trooper’s gun and opened fire. Per Azcentral, police identified the fallen officer as Trooper Tyler Edenhofer, who had been on the job less than three months and was in training at the time. …
Officials announced that three teens have been arrested in connection with Sunday’s police chase that left a Washington officer dead. According to The Spokesman-Review, Kent police officer Diego Moreno, 35, was struck and killed by another police car while deploying a spike strip to flatten the tires of a fleeing pickup truck. After hitting Moreno, other …
