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FULL TITLE: 'Drop the gun!': Police release harrowing footage of cops shooting and killing an 18-year-old suspect just moments after he opened fire on a bus and drew his weapon at the officers Police in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday released hours of footage related to the fatal police shooting of an armed suspect, under the first test of a state law expected to make such releases more routine. The harrowing encounter took place in June of 2016, as police were searching for a suspect in a gang-rivalry shooting on a public bus. Shot dead was 18-year-old Rodney Rodriguez Smith....

Despite Impossible Odds M-Vac Succeeds January 24, 2017 • 5 Likes • 0 Comments Collect touch DNA from a rock. Collect male touch DNA that is mixed into a shirt soaked with female victim blood. Collect DNA from a brick. Collect touch DNA from a rope. Collect DNA from clothing that has been submerged for 8-10 hrs. Collect DNA from clothing that is decades old. Collect skin cells from a cement block. Collect DNA from the edge of a burnt blanket. Collect touch DNA from a victim's pillowcase. These are all scenarios in which investigators have applied the M-Vac System...

DC Police Must Keep Body Cameras Off On Inauguration Day Washington DC – All DC Police Officers have recently been outfitted with body cameras, but they will be in serious trouble if they have them on during the Inauguration Day protests.

Pinned to the ground by officers who kneed and struck him, Lawrence Crosby screamed whatever he could think of to convince them that he was a law-abiding PhD student, not a violent car thief. “This is my vehicle, sir,” he said, his voice captured by the dashboard-camera video. “I have evidence. . . . I purchased this vehicle Jan. 23, 2015, from Libertyville Chevrolet.” It wasn’t enough. The officers placed him in handcuffs in the driveway of a church, two blocks from the police station in Evanston, Ill.

Democratic lawmakers plan to rehang a controversial painting on Capitol Hill that angered law enforcement groups with its depiction of police officers as pigs, after Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter personally took down the picture last week. ...... Rep. Lacy Clay, D-Mo ... CBC member ... [the CBC said]: “The rehanging of this painting ... yadayada ... protecting the rights of a student artist ... blahblah ... a proud statement in defense of the 1st Amendment"

Tarak Andrew Underiner wanted Ohio college students to have the right to carry guns on campus so they could defend themselves in dangerous situations – say, leaving the library late at night and traveling home alone. Now he’s the first homicide of 2017 in Columbus. The Lantern reports that the Ohio State University campus-carry activist was “found dead from gunshot wounds” at a residence near campus when police responded to a shooting around 12:30 a.m. Thursday. The police report says investigators don’t think the shooting was “random in nature.” Underiner, the treasurer of Buckeyes for Concealed Carry, testified in November...

Capitol Hill Police blasted a painting that now hangs in the U.S. Capitol, which depicts police as pigs shooting up a black St. Louis neighborhood and want the piece removed immediately. “The painting portrays a colorful landscape of symbolic characters representing social injustice, the tragic events in Ferguson and the lingering elements of inequality in modern American society,” Democratic Missouri Rep. Lacy Clay said in a statement last June of the painting created by David Pulphus and chosen by Rep. Clay as part of the annual U.S. Congressional Art Competition.

I think that ALOT of the 'COPS'" Problems stem from when they went from being "Peace Officers" to "Law Enforcement".

Dramatic dashcam footage has emerged of the moment a police officer rammed an armed suspect deliberately to stop a crime spree. Mario Valencia is facing many charges including assault on a police officer and stealing a rifle from a supermarket. He survived the crash and the police driver in Tuscon, Arizona, was cleared of any wrongdoing.

The NBC4 I-Team has obtained police body cam video — never before seen publicly — that shows cops allowing a K-9 to bite a naked, unarmed man, including for over 40 seconds after officers had him pinned to the ground. Attorneys who've seen the video say it amounts to excessive force, and raises questions for all police departments about how they use K-9s.

(Vermilion) -- A former Vermilion police officer is waking up in jail for an assault that was caught on his body camera. Aaron Bolton was sentenced yesterday to four months behind bars for roughing up a disorderly conduct suspect last year. Bolton was a decorated, 18-year veteran of the Vermilion Police Department before he resigned last week. Video here: http://wtam.iheart.com/articles/local-news-122520/police-officer-convicted-of-assault-15385482/#ixzz4SjsZHeQF

A transgender police officer who helped organize San Diego’s Transgender Day of Awareness was turned away from the event when she tried to attend in her police uniform. ... Later, she attempted to attend the event herself but was asked to leave. She says she was told her uniform could upset others.

The father of one of the officers executed in Dallas in July at a Black Lives Matter protest filed a lawsuit on Monday against Black Lives Matter, Rev. Al Sharpton, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and others charging that they inflamed and inspired a “War on Police.” The father of 32-year-old Dallas Police Officer Patrick Zamarripa, Enrigue Zamarripa, also sued: Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network; Black Lives Matter organizers Rashad Turner, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Deray McKesson, Johnetta Elzie; Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panthers Party; and George Soros, a huge financial supporter...

A Pinecrest Police officer was injured in an accident while he was part of Hillary Clinton’s motorcade Tuesday afternoon. The accident happened in Miami Lakes near 67th Avenue and the Palmetto Expressway around 4 p.m. – a bit after Clinton had appeared at a rally in Broward College. Rescue crews airlifted him to a nearby hospital.

A Florida man arrested last year after police mistook doughnut glaze in his car for meth is suing the city of Orlando and a drug-testing kit company. The Orlando Sentinel reports Daniel Rushing filed a lawsuit last week, claiming negligence by the city and the kit's manufacturer. Rushing was arrested on drug charges last December when Orlando police officers spotted four tiny flakes of glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine. Rushing told officers it was likely sugar from Krispy Kreme doughnuts he'd eaten, but two roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance....

San Antonio cops will be punished for wearing 'Make America Great Again' hats with Donald Trump A gaggle of cops in San Antonio will be punished after being caught sporting Donald Trump hats while escorting the presidential candidate to the airport on Tuesday. At least 15 uniformed, on-duty cops with the San Antonio Police Department motorcycle unit in Texas violated the city’s policy by wear the flashy “Make America Great Again” hats, Police Chief William McManus said in a statement. "The officers wearing the campaign hats while in uniform violated SAPD policy and will be disciplined appropriately,” McManus wrote. “SAPD...

Chicago’s top cop said Thursday one of his officers was seriously beaten at an accident scene because the national focus on police shootings has caused officers to second-guess themselves. Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the patrol officer told him she did not use her gun to defend herself for fear of a backlash. "She didn’t want her family or the department to go through the scrutiny the next day on national news," he said. *snip* The suspect smashed the officer's face into the pavement repeatedly until she was unconscious, police said.

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Protests erupted at a South Los Angeles intersection Sunday night not far from where a teenager died in an officer-involved shooting after police say he fled from a suspected stolen vehicle. Shortly before 10 p.m., authorities issued a citywide tactical alert and asked protesters standing at the intersection of Western Avenue and 108th Street to disperse or they would be arrested. As the evening went on, at least four people were taken into custody. The alert was called off around midnight. Chaos in the intersection of Western and 108th in #southla after vigil for #Carnellsnelljr.@ABC7...

A police officer who responded to several calls about illegal street racing and reckless driving found himself surrounded by a mob of angry people, some of whom yelled and cursed at him while others hit and kicked his vehicle as he sat inside. “F the police, we run the streets,” they said, according to Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer, ABC affiliate KFSN-TV reported. The incident happened the afternoon of Sept. 25. The Fresno Police Department and California Highway Patrol received reports of large crowds blocking traffic a few miles outside of downtown Fresno, according to the police department. A California...

Prayer, love, compassion and brotherhood . . . from the finest of a very fine profession. Maybe it’s gratuitous and needlessly provocative to tease this story in the way I did. I thought about it. But I don’t think so, and here’s why: Dishonest politicians, malevolent activists and irresponsible journalists are peddling the narrative, pretty much on a daily basis, that police officers throughout America are systematically engaging in the racist brutalization of black people. This narrative is despicable. It takes a tiny handful of incidents - the majority of which are completely misrepresented - and spins it into a...