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The Florida special prosecutor investigating the Trayvon Martin shooting is bringing in independent voice analysis experts to enhance 911 tapes to learn more about the actions of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed the teen. Angela Corey, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Scott to investigate the shooting, said the experts will examine two potentially crucial aspects of the eight calls made to 911: a racial epithet Zimmerman might have muttered while talking to a dispatcher minutes before shooting the unarmed 17-year-old, and the screams in the background of calls that residents made to police...

The Detroit Police Department unveiled a new 9-1-1 policy recently, and it’s got some people worried. Why? Because unless there seems to be an imminent threat, callers will get transferred to a crime reporting unit. “This is how it works,” WJBK-TV explains. “If you’ve been held up and the gunman is long gone, or you’ve been assaulted but not too badly, or your home has been broken into, that’s not 911 anymore. They’ll transfer you or you can call the Telephone Crime Reporting Unit yourself at 313-267-4600.”

Nearly eight minutes elapsed between when a social worker called 911 to report that Josh Powell's children were in danger and when sheriff's deputies were dispatched, emergency call logs show. The home was a gas-fueled inferno - with Powell and his two young boys inside - by the time officers were on their way. Several minutes of response time was lost when the priority of the dispatch Sunday was listed as "routine" instead of "emergency." There was nothing deputies could do when they arrived 14 minutes later. >>SNIP<< After getting it straight, the dispatcher told her someone would come, though...

Earlier today, I posted the following statement: “In battle, you do what you gotta do, live, call 911 and deal.” The 911 part of the formula is no small point. All your go-to gun gurus and lawyer friends (oxymoronic as that sounds) agree: you must call the cops immediately after a shooting. That’s the only way you can establish yourself as the victim rather than the aggressor. It’s also critical for guiding the first responders to your 10-40, and pre-identifying yourself so you don’t get yo’ ass capped by the good guys. Only there’s a fly in the cellular ointment....

In his first call to 911, Curtis Mitchell sounded calm, explaining to dispatchers that his "entire stomach [was] in pain." By the time his longtime girlfriend made a 10th call nearly 30 hours later, she was frantic. He wasn't breathing. He was cold to the touch. "Oh God, oh God," Sharon Edge sobbed to dispatchers. "I've been trying to get an ambulance over here for three days." Paramedics arrived at their Hazelwood home as Ms. Edge tried to resuscitate the 50-year-old, but it was too late. "I sat up here with him, watching him die," Ms. Edge said Tuesday, after...

In an extraordinary phone call, a 3-year-old saved a life in Maple Shade, New Jersey. . . . Within minutes, police & paramedics arrived at the Maple Shade home where the little boy unlocked the door and then let them in. However, Jaden was wise enough to lock the dog in the bedroom so he wouldn't get in the way.

Here is audio of a 911 call made by the wife of Florida Gator Coach Urban Meyer back on December 6, 2009, just after the SEC Championship Game which Florida lost to Alabama. Meyer's wife called and asked for help when Coach Meyer was having chest pains and had gone to the floor. Meyer recently announced he would leave Florida, but then decided to take an indefinite leave of absence instead to deal with his health issues. . . . (AUDIO)

This is by far one of the most amazing and saddest videos (audios) I have ever seen/heard. More than anything else, the following is exhibit A about lawful gun owners in America, particularly those who have used their weapons to defend themselves. Far from the gun-crazed, trigger happy racists the liberal antigun crowd would have you believe, they are really just regular folks who want to go about their business. The remorse in the woman's voice at the end of the video gave me goosebumps. And the dispatcher deserves a medal for being as supportive as she was of this...

Here is audio of the 911 call in the Tiger Woods accident that occurred Friday morning early. At times it seems the audio is gone, but just stay with it and it will keep going. . . . (AUDIO)

Greensboro, NC -- Greensboro police say an 80-year-old man is not facing charges after he shot and killed a break-in suspect early Wednesday morning. Charles Haithcock called 911 immediately following the shooting of 19-year-old Michael L. Medley who he says broke into his home. Haithcock: “A man broke in on me and pulled a gun. i shot him and he’s laying out in the yard.” 911 Operator: “Is he breathing?” Haithcock: “I don’t know. he broke in the window. He pulled the air conditioning out in the living room. And I heard something and he come back to the bedroom....

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — A teen who police say was set ablaze by five other boys screamed in agony as a breathless 911 caller pleaded for help because "a little boy just caught on fire," according to a recording released Friday. In the most dramatic of four emergency calls released by the Broward County Sheriff's Office, the relentless, guttural cries of 15-year-old Michael Brewer often drown out the woman who is dialing dispatchers. "A little boy just caught on fire!" the unidentified woman says, barely able to catch her breath to give her address. Prompted by the dispatcher during the...

PHOENIX (CN) - A homeowner says a Phoenix police officer shot him six times in the back during a 911 home-invasion call, and the 911 tape recorded the officer's partner saying, "That's all right. Don't worry about it. I got your back. ... We clear?" The family says the officers were not aware that the 911 call was still recording as they spoke about covering up the shooting. In their complaint in Maricopa County Court, Anthony and Lesley Arambula say an armed intruder "crashed through the front window" of their home on Sept. 17, 2008 and ran into one of...

Michelle Obama Appeals to Women on the Health Care Bill

This story ran a while back on freerepublic (May 2007), but no one posted the YouTube video that shows news anchors losing composure after hearing the 911 audio of a cop who apparently confiscated pot during an arrest, took it home, baked it, consumed it with his girlfriend, and then freaked out. Consider it a Friday humor break. Have a good weekend all! YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnZb5wi_jsU&feature=related Original article here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832141/posts

The two men arrested are 19-year-old Kendell Towns and 19-year-old Frederick Dorsey. The victims tell WAVE 3 that a 14-year-old girl had just taken the dog out when the men chased her back inside the home. "Once patrol got there they found the two subjects upstairs with the victims in the bedroom," Schraut said. "They were starting to duct tape the victims up, the one child had duct tape in her hair still when we got there. They threw their guns down and gave up." Detectives tell us they don't know why the two men targeted that particular home, saying...

On August 8, 2009 a person named Ryan working at "Fromaginations on the Square" called the Madison police to ask if there was a "law in the state of Wisconsin that allows you to carry a gun," reporting that "a gentleman walked past me with a rather large rather large gun attached to his hip . . . he was walking north toward State Street." Replied the police dispatcher, "[n]o there is not . . . let me get someone to check that area to see if we can find 'em because there is no such law here." . ....

TaMara Sheppard of Tacoma started labor around noon and arrived at Puyallup’s Good Samaritan Hospital at 7:30 p.m. before delivering baby Nina Morgan. Sheppard had been scheduled for induced labor on Monday, but Nina Morgan decided to make an early grand entrance. "The last time I looked at the clock (in the delivery room), the little hand was on nine and the big one was on eleven," Sheppard said. Then the doctor told her to push. Recovering in the hospital on Saturday, Sheppard took the prodigious timing in stride. "It never even crossed my mind until my husband said, 'you're...

Ventura County Sheriff’s authorities released a recording of the 9-1-1 call made after a Newbury Park man had part of his left little finger bitten off during a pro-healthcare-reform rally in Thousand Oaks this week. The recording, which is posted on the Ventura County Star’s Web site, has Scott Bush telling the 9-1-1 dispatcher that there has been a fight. Bush was standing with William Rice, whose left pinky was bit off near the second knuckle during a scuffle. “A gentleman’s finger has been bitten off, and I have the finger wrapped up in a napkin,” Bush said. He said...

Here is video from CBS News of the 911 call made in the murder of Florida couple Byrd and Melanie Billings, who were shot to death seven weeks ago. The report plays the 911 call, and shows animation of what the surveillance video shows of the killings. A judge will not allow the actual video to be released. Eight suspects have been arrested in the case. . . . . . . . (Watch Video)

August 22, 2009 10:44 PM Al Pefley New developments in a recent incident in Boca Raton, where a man was attacked by a group of bicyclists. Police have just released 911 calls from that night. "911. What's the address of your emergency?" "Um, a bunch of guys on bicycles are beatin' the crap out of this guy," one caller said. Calls poured into 9-1-1 from drivers who watched as an elderly man, 69 year old Miles Barish of Delray Beach, squared off with a group of bicyclists on A1A. "911. What's the address of your emergency?" "A1A and Palmetto Park....

RAW DATA: Transcript of Cambridge 911 Call The following is a transcript of the 911 call a neighbor made on July 16 reporting a possible break-in at the home of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. FOXNews.com Monday, July 27, 2009 911 OPERATOR: 9-1-1, what is the exact location of your emergency? FEMALE WITNESS CALLER: Hi, I'm actually at (inaudible) street in Cambridge, the house number is 7 Ware Street. 911 OPERATOR: OK ma'am, your cell phone cut out, what's the address again? FEMALE WITNESS CALLER: Sorry, it's 7 Ware Street. That's W-A-R-E Street. 911 OPERATOR: The emergency is at...

The long-awaited 911 tape and audio of the controversial July 16 arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. are being made public for the first time today, Cambridge officals just announced. “The tapes will speak for themselves,” said Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas. Hass said the tapes will create “some confusion,” but only with police codes you’ll hear but the remainder of the tapes are crystal clear. “It’s in plain language in most part and you can draw your own conclusions,” Haas. In the 911 tapes, Lucia Whalen can be heard spelling out the name of the street and...

The 911 caller who reported a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. did not mention race in the call, according to a statement issued by her attorney and backed up by Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas. Lucia Whalen placed the 911 call July 16, saying she saw two men on Gates' front porch who appeared to be trying to force open the front door. The call led to the arrest of Gates by Cambridge police on a disorderly conduct charge, and a resulting national debate about racial profiling.

BOSTON – The 911 caller who reported a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. did not mention race in the call, according to a statement issued by her attorney and backed up by Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas. Lucia Whalen placed the 911 call July 16, saying she saw two men on Gates' front porch who appeared to be trying to force open the front door. The call led to the arrest of Gates by Cambridge police on a disorderly conduct charge, and the resulting national firestorm.

The 40-year-old woman whose emergency call to Cambridge police sparked the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and a raging national debate on race relations claims she never said “black” men were breaking into his house. “This woman is 100 percent clear on what she said,” said attorney Wendy J. Murphy, who is representing 911 caller Lucia Whalen. “She never said she saw two black men. She said, ‘It never crossed my mind that there were two black men.’ ” In fact, Whalen, who wants the world to know she is not a racist, isn’t even white -...

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. – A man insisted on being arrested after he walked into a western North Carolina bank while on the phone with a 911 operator to report that he planned to commit a robbery. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported the man insisted on being arrested after an officer walked in behind him Wednesday at the Wachovia bank branch in Waynesville...

UPDATED: 4:01 pm EDT July 16, 2009 WAYNESVILLE, N.C. -- Police released audio of a 911 call they received on Wednesday from a man who said he was about to rob a bank. The call was placed to the 911 center in Haywood County by a man who identified himself as Terrence Germani and who described himself as “mentally unstable.” The caller then told the operator his location and what he was wearing. He then told the operator that he was going to “rob the Wachovia bank.” “I can’t live in this world with the rest of the regular people,”...

A distraught caller trying to save the life of a 2-year-old Florida girl strangled by a pet python screams "The baby's dead!" in chilling 911 tapes released in the toddler's death.Shaiunna Hare died early Wednesday morning after being attacked in her crib by the snake, which escaped from its aquarium, police said. "The baby's dead!" a sobbing caller from the house screamed to a 911 dispatcher. "Our stupid snake got out in the middle of the night and strangled the baby." Authorities did not identify the caller and removed the person's name from the recording. "She got out of the...

The full transcript of the 911 call from Michael Jackson's home has been released by the Los Angeles Fire Department.

BEDFORD, Ohio - An Ohio man who argued with his grown son over a messy bedroom says he overreacted when he called 911. Andrew Mizsak called authorities Thursday after his 28-year-old son — who's a school board member in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford — threw a plate of food across the kitchen table and made a fist at him when told to clean his room. The son, also named Andrew, lives in a room in his parents' basement.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Authorities said two men called 911 after they were robbed at gunpoint while trying to buy 20 pounds of marijuana. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office reported that the men went to a home Monday with $12,000 to buy the drugs. Two men at the home jumped them, took their money and drove off. A report said the victims jumped in their own vehicle to follow and one of them called 911 for help.

The father said he overreacted. And who can blame him when the son is 28 years old. But that's not the best part. The son is also a school board member and a budding Democrat politician who lives in his parent's basement. It's odd enough that a Bedford father would actually call police after arguing with his son about cleaning his room. Stranger still, the sloppy son is 28 years old and serves on the Bedford School Board. "I know this looks bad," said School Board member Andrew Mizsak, who lives with his parents and also works as an independent...

The White House says an inquiry will take place into a photo-op that happened Monday over New York City. The cost of the photo-op is now more than $300,000. I still find it hard to believe that President Obama, Rahmbo, Robert Gibbs et. al. had no idea this stunt was planned. It's like Johnny Cochran's "Chewbacca Defense". Chewbacca is a wookie, but he lives on Endor (home of the Ewoks); it just doesn't make sense. The price includes over $35,000 in jet fuel. I demand the White House pay a "cap-and-trade" tax on these carbon emissions.

Botetourt Co., VA - Panicked and shaken, a Botetourt County woman waits for help to arrive, just minutes before her husband shoots and kills an intruder. At 10:40 Friday night, dispatchers answered a call from Houston Mines Road. Jody Hoover - "There is a strange man outside our home, and he's hollering'." Homeowner Jody Hoover didn't stay on the phone long. Hoover - "I'm going to give you to my wife. I'm going to go get my gun." Hoover loaded his 12-guage shot gun, as the intruder, Jerry Lee Jones Junior, got restless. Jody Hoover's Wife - "Bang.. oh my...

(04-09) 16:37 PDT SAN JOSE -- Vandals cut fiber-optic cable lines belonging to AT&T at two locations early today, knocking out phones and access to 911 emergency services to thousands of residential customers and businesses in southern Santa Clara County, in Santa Cruz and San Benito counties and along the Peninsula, authorities said. Four AT&T fiber-optic cables in an underground vault were severed shortly before 1:30 a.m. along Monterey Highway north of Blossom Hill Road in south San Jose, police Sgt. Ronnie Lopez said. Four more underground cables, at least two of which belong to AT&T, were cut about two...

<p>HALTOM CITY, Texas -- A woman called 911 to report she didn't get as much shrimp as she wanted in her fried rice at a Texas restaurant.</p> <p>Haltom City police on Tuesday released the taped emergency call, in which the customer is heard telling the dispatcher, "to get a police officer up here, what has to happen?"</p>

The mother of a man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers told an emergency dispatcher he had weapons, but the dispatcher didn't tell officers, the official in charge of county dispatchers says.

PITTSBURGH – The mother of a man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers told a 911 dispatcher he had weapons, but the dispatcher didn't relay that information to officers, the official in charge of county dispatchers says. The dispatcher should have asked more questions about the weapons, but didn't, and certainly should have told officers so they could take necessary precautions, Allegheny County Chief of Emergency Services Robert Full told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "There is no excuse. It could have been handled better, without a doubt," Full said in Tuesday's editions. Richard Poplawski's mother, Margaret, had dialed 911 Saturday...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The mother of a man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers told a 911 dispatcher he had weapons, but the dispatcher didn't relay that information to officers, the official in charge of county dispatchers says.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house. The Saturday argument between Margaret and Richard Poplawski escalated to the point that she threatened to kick him out and she called police to do it, according to a 12-page criminal complaint and affidavit filed late Saturday. When officers Paul Sciullo III and Stephen Mayhle arrived, Margaret Poplawski opened the door and...

If you were online and couldn't access some websites today, we might know the reason why. The FBI raided a Dallas building that houses servers for several different websites. CBS 11 News has learned that the raid is part of a general criminal investigation. Because of the confiscation of computers at Core IP Networks, a number of legitimate businesses have been affected. From the downtown office building in the 2300 block of Bryan Street, FBI agents seized what one source described as millions of dollars in computer equipment. Matthew Simpson, the owner of Core IP Networks, said in a letter...

With people as helpless as this.......

HELP - I'm handcuffed and I can't get up! A Connecticut hubby called cops on his estranged wife after she handcuffed herself to him and bit him in a bizarre confrontation captured on a 911 tape. "My wife has handcuffed me - she's attacking me," Robert Drawbough moaned to an emergency dispatcher in suburban Fairfield. "Please come and help me get out of here." Drawbough complained to cops that he woke up to find his wife had snapped the 'cuffs on both of them to stop him from bolting. He told the puzzled dispatcher he couldn't keep Helen Sun, 37,...

Most robbery investigations won’t be this easy. The first bank robbery to ever hit Ocean Shores ended 15 minutes after it began Friday when the suspect called 911 to confess. Ocean Shores Police have arrested a 39-year-old Copalis Beach woman on suspicion of first-degree robbery after tracing her call. Police said the woman walked into the Timberland Savings Bank along Damon Road at about 1:30 p.m. Friday. “Witnesses said that the female robber presented a demand note indicating that she had a gun and left with an undisclosed amount of money,” police said in a news release. The woman fled...

Boredom prompted a 20-year-old Slidell woman Tuesday to place two bogus 911 calls, one about a burglary and another about a house fire, authorities said Wednesday. Ashley K. Snipes, of 504 Maine Ave., was arrested Tuesday afternoon and booked with falsely reporting a fire and falsely reporting a crime. Slidell Police received a call at 11:29 from a woman who reported that her home in the 500 block of Maine Avenue was being burglarized, department spokesman Capt. Kevin Foltz said. Officers went to the home, but the homeowner said that everything was fine and that he had not called police,...

Latreasa Goodman of Fort Pierce, Florida called the 911 emergency number when a local McDonalds restaurant was unable to fill her order for McNuggets because they had run out. “Them refusing to give me my ‘nuggets’ isn’t the change I voted for last November,” Goodman complained. “It’s racist. Obama’s the president now. I have rights that ‘whitey’ can’t deny me. The police are supposed to enforce my rights.” Goodman ended up disappointed when police responding to her call not only didn’t force the restaurant to give her the McNuggets, but, instead, cited her for abusing the 911 phone line. A...

A 4-year-old boy was honored Tuesday for saving his mother's life by calling 911 when she collapsed while making him lunch. Tapes released Tuesday show Thomas "TJ" Roller calling 911 on Feb. 18 and telling the dispatcher, "My Mommy's sick. Can you please come over here? ... Can you pick her up?"

A rural North Texas woman said she dialed 911 repeatedly but got no answer as an intruder roamed her home in the dark. Laverne Hokett lives in Parker County, just west of Fort Worth. She said she was awakened one night last month by someone breaking through her back door. She dialed 911 several times from her cell phone but got no answer. Then she called her daughter Deborah Turpin. She and her husband arrived at her mother's home and held the intruder at gunpoint while dialing 911 over and over before getting an answer. Sheriff's Capt. Mike Morgan says...

WHITTIER, Calif. (AP) - Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman became unhinged with fear last year when she thought she had lost one of her children, repeatedly telling an emergency dispatcher, "Oh God, I'm going to kill myself," according to a recording of her 911 call released Wednesday by police. Suleman made the call Oct. 27 after her 5-year-old son went missing from the front yard, only to find him a few minutes later after he returned from a walk. Suleman's repeated threats of suicide prompted a chiding from the dispatcher, who could hear children's voices in the background. "Don't say that...

<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets. According to a police report, 27-year-old Fort Pierce resident Latreasa L. Goodman told authorities she paid for a 10-piece last week but was later informed the restaurant had run out. She says employees refused to give her a refund, saying all sales were final. A cashier told police she offered Goodman a larger portion of different food for the same price, but Goodman became irate.</p>