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"On June 18, 2021 in Florida, officers responded to a trespassing call at an apartment complex. The landlord reported that a woman was trying to claim residency in one of her vacant apartments. The landlord stated that the apartment had been empty on June 6 when her plumber had gone in to start a project, but upon re-entering the apartment on June 18, the plumber found an unknown female inside saying she lived there. When an officer arrived on scene, the suspected squatter had left the scene, but shortly thereafter, the woman came down the street yelling that she lived...

Former President Donald Trump posted a video on social media showing a hog-tied President Joe Biden painted on the tailgate of a passing truck. The video was posted from Trump's ride back to his private jet after attending the wake of slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, who was murdered on duty earlier this week. The clip, posted to Trump's Truth Social account with only a caption showing the date and that it was on Long Island, was set to mournful piano as cars displaying their love for Trump rode down the highway. A rendering of the current president hog-tied was...

The three kings have risen and just in time for Good Friday. From the bowels of Manhattan's iconic Radio City Music Hall, President Joe Biden – flanked by his Democratic, ambulatory predecessors – was winched up on a platform from below the stage to roaring applause from New York's finest (not the NYPD, we'll get to that) on Thursday night. Like an animatronic Disney character, stiff Old Joe waved and grinned and turned to acknowledge ex-presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama beside him. The wealthy donors – paying up to $500,000 a ticket – gobbled it up. However, to me,...

New York Mayor Ed Koch had a commonsense approach to hiring first responders, and it made a lifelong impression on me when I first heard it maybe 40 years ago. "I don’t care what sex a firefighter is," Mayor Koch said all those years ago, "as long as they can carry a 200 pound Mayor out of a burning building." When it comes to dangerous jobs — first responders, soldiers, sailors, pilots, industrial workers, etc. — every other consideration must come in second to the question of whether or not this particular applicant has the physical and mental stamina to...

A Jersey Shore police chief was suspended after reportedly showing up drunk to an accident scene and getting into a scuffle with one of his own officers — who later slammed his boss onto the hood of a police cruiser and told the chief to leave before he “gets a problem.” The confrontation between Bradley Beach Police Chief Leonard Guida and Sgt. William Major erupted on the night of Nov. 9, when the chief allegedly walked up to a suspected drunk driving crash on Main Street and began berating Major about his uniform, according to bodycam footage obtained by TAPinto,...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones stated that while it’s untrue that “the black community only cares about a black kid getting killed if a white cop does it or a white supremacist does it,” it is true that “The media only cares” about black children being killed if a white police officer or a racist white person is the killer. Host Bill Maher began the discussion by stating, “We do know that, for young black men, gun homicides are the leading cause of death. And…that leading cause outstrips...

A former Memphis Police officer who has been charged in Tyre Nichols’ death had a previous record of policy violations and accusations of excessive force as a correctional officer, according to personnel records. Demetrius Haley was previously a correctional officer at a prison run by the Shelby County Division of Corrections from 2015 to 2020. In his work as a corrections officer, an inmate named Cordarius Sledge accused Haley of using chemical spray on him, constituting excessive force, in 2015. However, an investigation didn’t find any violations of use of force policies of the department, and found allegations unsubstantiated.

A Chicago police officer is out of a job after she was caught falsely reporting being held at gunpoint and robbed of thousands of dollars. Officer Zondranika Williams, 37, was charged with felony disorderly conduct and false report of an offense at a court hearing Thursday, two days after she was relieved of her duties with the Chicago Police Department, CBS News Chicago reported. Williams called 911 on Sept. 23 to report that she had been robbed of $5,000 in cash in the alleyway by her garage in the 8000 block of South Wabash Avenue. She told the operator that...

This is the shocking moment a mob of New York City schoolchildren repeatedly punched a school cop - just a week before a Jewish teacher was forced to hide from a group demanding she be fired. Students from Hillcrest High School in Queens were arrested and charged following the horrific attacks, the New York Police Department confirmed. They did not reveal how many kids were apprehended, nor what disciplinary action they are facing. In the latest harrowing clip, at least three students start whacking the uniformed officer over the head, causing him to duck and try to defend himself. They...

The man fatally shot by a California Highway Patrol officer on a Los Angeles freeway was a troubled struggling actor — whose family always “backed the blue” before seeing video of him killed by “absolute police brutality,” his stepmom said. Jesse Dominguez, an aspiring actor working as a waiter and living in a sober living facility due to drug addiction, was shot dead by police during what his family claims was likely a mental health crisis while he was living sober living facility

Two men were caught on camera pummeling an NYPD cop in the head and face at a Bronx subway station Monday after the officer and his partner asked the suspects to put out their cigarettes. Kaream McClary, 23, and Izayiah Jessamy, 20, were charged with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, and trespassing over the shocking attack at the Freeman Street subway station around 2:30 p.m., police said. The altercation erupted after two officers requested McClary, Jessamy and a third man stop smoking inside the station — but the trio refused, cops said. When the officers tried removing the...

A woman accused of killing an NYPD cop in a drunken hit-run didn’t bat an eye as she was found guilty on all charges Tuesday — while the officer’s widow burst into tears. Jessica Beauvais, 32, of Long Island was convicted of aggravated manslaughter in the second degree along with vehicular manslaughter in the second degree and leaving the scene of an incident without reporting it in the 2021 horror that killed NYPD Officer Anastasios Tsakos on the Long Island Expressway. Beauvais remained stoic as jurors read out the guilty verdict in the Queens Criminal Court.

Two teenagers accused of killing a retired police chief were seen smirking, laughing and making obscene hand gestures in court as their trial date was set. Jesus Ayala, 18, and Jzamir Keys, 16, both face charges which include numerous felonies including murder in relation to the death of Andreas Probst, 64. The defendants could be seen smiling and laughing as Probst's family gathered in a Las Vegas court room for a hearing on Tuesday morning. The pair have been charged as adults and entered not-guilty pleas to multiple felonies including murder, battery and grand larceny of an automobile. Probst died...

Shocking video captured the moment a quick-thinking Long Island cop used his police vehicle to sideswipe a woman who was waving a gun in the street. Police responded to a report of a woman firing a gun into the air at the intersection of Bellmore and Jerusalem avenues in North Bellmore around 2:20 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon. Footage of the incident, posted on Reddit, shows the woman holding the handgun and threateningly pointing it at other cars as she walks across the road. At one point she even holds the gun to her own head, the video shows. Suddenly, tires...

The Ohio cop who released his police dog on a black truck driver who was surrendering earlier this month — ignoring clear orders to restrain the animal — has been fired. The Circleville Police Department said Wednesday that Ryan Speakman “did not meet the standards and expectations we hold for our police officers” after he unleashed a German shepherd K9 that mauled Jadarrius Rose on July 4. The 23-year-old black man, who had failed to stop his semi-trailer for a Motor Carrier Enforcement inspector while driving with a missing mud flap, was on his knees and with his hands up...

“Get on the ground or you’re going to get bit!” he yells. Rose complies by getting onto his knees and raising his hands, the video shows. A state trooper whose camera was recording the incident then repeatedly shouts at the local cops: “Do not release the dog with his hands up!” But the Circleville K-9 officer — identified by WOSU as Ryan Speakman – releases the dog, which lunges toward Rose and bites him as he screams, “Get the off of me … please, please … get it off!”

Shocking video shows the moment a suspect being booked into a London jail suddenly whips out a hidden 128-year-old revolver — repeatedly opening fire and killing a veteran cop. The harrowing footage from September 2020 was released Friday after Louis De Zoysa, 25, was found guilty of murdering Sgt. Matt Ratana, 54, who was just three months shy of retiring after nearly 30 years with London’s Metropolitan Police. It starts with De Zoysa handcuffed in a chair in Croydon Custody Center, flanked by two other officers after being busted for possessing drugs and bullets. “My name’s Matt — I’m the...

Shocking video footage shows a Michigan cop punching a teenager in the face while booking him onto a suburban Detroit jail — then grabbing him by the hair and slamming his face into the floor. Warren police released the surveillance footage Tuesday while announcing that Officer Matthew Rodriguez, 48, had been suspended and charged with assault and willful neglect of duty, both misdemeanors. Police Commissioner William Dwyer called it “sad and upsetting to every member of this department.” “This is not what we do. This is not who we are,” he said, while praising two other officers for quickly reporting...

A police officer has been fired after he was caught on camera punching a woman squarely in the face while she was handcuffed. Former Loveland Officer Russell Maranto, 28, punched Angelia Hall, 59, in the mouth while she was detained in a hospital emergency room. In the footage, Hall can be heard becoming increasingly frustrated and angry as she sits in an examination chair while cursing and yelling at the officers and nurses who were present. But it was when she spat at Maranto that he immediately reacted by punching her. Another officer in the room intervened and pulled Maranto...

Dashcam video captured the terrifying moment an out-of-control BMW careened across four lanes of traffic and a highway median in Virginia at more than 120 miles per hour, nearly hitting a cop. The heart-stopping incident happened late Monday morning in suburban Fairfax County as an officer was making a routine traffic stop on the southbound Fairfax County Parkway, about 20 miles away from Capitol Hill, officials said. All of a sudden, a black 2018 BMW M3 driven by a 17-year-old and headed northbound on the parkway, lost control, spun around and dashed across traffic, slamming into both the car that...