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However complete her training or rounded her experience, Sgt. Kimberly Munley may be forgiven if she never expected a scene quite like the one Thursday, when she found herself in a courtyard facing an Army major apparently gone berserk and a body count that would keep rising unless she stopped him. Two quick shots from her Beretta 9 mm — pop, pop — and now Munley had the attention of the gunman. She had missed. He was angry. Now his Belgian-made 5.7 mm pistol was pointed not at the already wounded soldier he was chasing, but at Munley, a civilian...

July 24, 2009 Officer of no color Editor's Note: You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. The President is now backpedaling from his woefully uninformed comments made about a fine officer from Massachusetts. Calling Sergeant James Crowley on the phone and saying to the press that Crowley is "a fine man" rings hollow today because of the knee-jerk reaction we heard on Wednesday. Police work is infinitely more complex than a 10-second sound-bite, and the President's comments are just the most recent, most visible evidence that a lack of understanding about law enforcement permeates our society. I and...

Cambridge Police Officer To Obama: Butt Out of My Arrest The police officer who arrested a Harvard professor for disorderly conduct said Thursday he wants President Obama, who is the educator's friend, to butt out of the incident. Cambridge, Mass., Sgt. James Crowley arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home last week after he responded to a report of two black men attempting to break in to Gates' home. It turned out that Gates, head of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, had broken into his own home after being unable to find his keys upon...

  Third Officer Shot By Illegal Alien In Sancutary City Last Updated: Mon, 06/29/2009 - 3:52pmA third law enforcement officer in one of the nation’s biggest sanctuary cities has been shot by an illegal immigrant who was protected by a don’t-ask-don’t-tell immigration policy during previous police encounters.The Houston Police Department’s longtime rule prohibiting officers from questioning suspects about immigration status has cost the department dearly in the last few years. Two officers have been murdered and one shot in the face by illegal immigrants with previous records. The latest shooting occurred just last week when an illegal alien from Mexico killed...

KABUL: In an attack claimed by the Taliban, two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed Afghanistan's most high-profile female police officer on Sunday as she prepared to leave for work in the southern city of Kandahar. The police in the city said she died instantly from gunshot wounds to her head. Her 18-year-old son, driving her car, was seriously wounded and taken to the hospital. The police officer, Malalai Kakar, who was in her mid-forties with six children, was an iconic figure among women's groups in Afghanistan and abroad. Often profiled in the Afghan and foreign news media, she...

ASHLAND — An Ashland police officer and his wife were killed Saturday in a motorcycle accident in eastern Ohio. Ashland Police Department Sgt. Charles “Chuck” E. Leadingham Jr., 44, and Denise Leadingham, 42, were killed when their motorcycle crashed on I-77 near Marietta, Ohio. Chuck Leadingham was a nearly 20-year veteran of the APD, beginning as a Public Safety Officer before advancing through the ranks to become a sergeant and field supervisor, according to Chief Rob Ratliff. Denise Leadingham was an employee at Federal Correctional Institute in Summit. The couple are survived by a daughter and a son. According to...

Family wins $40,000 over food tainted with urine by North Platte Bulletin Staff - 7/14/2008 A police officer from Sidney and his family won $40,000 from a restaurant that served them food tainted with an employee’s spit and urine. Officer Keith Andrew and his wife said in the lawsuit that a Taco Bell employee urinated and spit in food served to them and their children in October 2005. The owner of the restaurant is North Platte’s Mid-Plains Food and Lodging, owner of a KFC and Taco Bell here too. The jury sided with the Andrews July 11. In the lawsuit,...

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS -- A North Richland Hills patrol officer fatally shot a dog Monday night after the animal attacked him, police said Tuesday.The officer, who was not identified, was bitten on the leg, North Richland Hills Investigator Larry Irving said Tuesday. The officer was taken to a local hospital, where he was treated and released.The dog, a pointer named Ruger, was shot as the officer answered an animal complaint call shortly after 10 p.m. Monday in the 4800 block of Nancy Lane.Irving said that police had received previous animal complaints involving Ruger.Bobby Jones of North Richland Hills said Ruger...

Federal authorities say a Milwaukee police officer is an illegal immigrant who took the name of a dead cousin as a teenager. Immigration agents arrested Jose Morales, 24, on Wednesday. They would not say how they caught on to him. Michelle Jacobs of the U.S. Attorney’s office says a decision on charges will be made today (Thursday), and he could appear in federal court before the day is through. Morales became a police aide five years ago. He’s been a patrol officer since late 2004. Morales is on a paid suspension at the moment. Police spokeswoman Anne Schwartz said a...

New Hampshire authorities said yesterday that they will not press charges against a former Marine who stepped into a deadly shooting and killed a 24-year-old high school dropout who had moments earlier fatally shot a police officer. The former Marine, Gregory W. Floyd, 49, was driving with his son along Route 116 in Franconia on Friday night when he saw Liko Kenney, 24, shoot Franconia Police Corporal Bruce McKay, 48, four times in the torso. After Kenney drove his Toyota Celica over McKay as the officer lay on the ground, Floyd grabbed the officer's service weapon and shot and killed...

Two Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers were shot in East Charlotte Saturday night just before midnight. “The officers were shot in the area around Barrington Drive and were transported to Carolinas Medical Center uptown,” said Julie Hill, public affairs director for CMPD. She would not comment on their condition nor the events that led up to the shootings. Police blocked off a two-mile perimeter around the Timber Hollow Apartments where the shootings happened. One suspect was in custody by 12:30 a.m., and police continued looking for two others in the area, said a department spokesperson. The injured officers are from the CMPD...

candle light vigil in memory of slain Montgomery Police Officer Keith Houts will be held Monday at 7:30 p.m. It will take place near the memorial to fallen officers outside the Montgomery Police Department. Mayor Bobby Bright and Police Chief Art Baylor will be among the speakers. A public funeral service for Officer Houts is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday at Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church. A private funeral also will be held for the family in the Birmingham area.

MIDI - HIS LATEST FLAME McKinney was caught on video She didn't have her pin and changed her hair Jews she bad mouths everywhere Cynthia's her name...whitey she will blame Female and black, she's a victicrat She had Belafonte by her side We saw Danny Glover wild-eyed Cynthia's her name...whitey she will blame She said she was late for important business And couldn't waste time for security When the policeman stopped her, she went ballistic She smacked him really hard for all to see Her arrogance has known no bounds She plays the race card every chance she gets...

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Detectives investigating the fatal shooting of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy determined she was shot by someone else rather than accidentally by her own gun, authorities said Wednesday. They also said robbery was a possible motive, adding they don't believe Maria Cecelia Rosa was killed because of her law enforcement affiliation. Rosa, 30, a six-year department veteran, was found slumped over the open trunk of her car early Tuesday with a gunshot wound to her upper body. The shooting occurred in a friend's driveway. Sheriff Lee Baca initially said the positions of Rosa's body and...

A Lawrence County man has filed a federal lawsuit against a police officer who wrote him a ticket for directing an offensive gesture toward a road construction worker. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that Thomas Burns was driving on Brodhead Road in Center Township, Beaver County, last April when he and other drivers had to stop in a construction zone. Burns became frustrated after waiting in traffic, then raised his middle finger to construction workers. An officer pulled Burns over and cited him with obscene disorderly conduct. The charge was dropped in October after the police officer and witnesses didn't show...

There were two big developments Monday in the case of a motorist who was shot and killed along Greenwell Springs Road Friday after a fight with a police officer. Investigators say an autopsy shows the deadly bullet was fired by a bystander, not the officer. Police also announced that no charges would be filed in the case, either against the police officer involved or the bystander who fired the fatal shot into the head of George Temple. East Baton Rouge Sheriff's spokesman Greg Phares says Officer Brian Harrision was escorting a funeral procession Friday when he pulled Temple over and...

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities arrested a 23-year-old man on Sunday in the fatal shooting of a police officer who was gunned down while taking a teenager on a ride-along. Alberto Alvarez, of East Palo Alto, was taken into custody after an intense manhunt around 6 a.m. in East Palo Alto, where the shooting took place, according the California Highway Patrol. Officer Richard May, 39, was responding to a disturbance at the Villa Taqueria off University Avenue when the incident occurred around 5 p.m. Saturday, police said. The officer was approaching the suspect, who was walking away from...

A former police officer with mental problems linked to the World Trade Center disaster was sentenced to prison Wednesday after declaring he had been trying to kill only himself when he placed a bomb in a Times Square subway station. Joseph Rodriguez, 28, pleaded guilty on Oct. 24 to reckless endangerment. He was given one to three years in prison. Initially he also had been charged with arson and illegal possession of a weapon. Rodriguez admitted he placed a homemade bomb on subway stairs at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue on July 19, 2004. The blast left him slightly injured;...

DALLAS — A newlywed police officer was killed early Sunday by a suspect he was chasing on foot, authorities said. Officer Brian Jackson and another officer went to investigate a disturbance complaint and chased a male suspect through alleys and between houses, Police Chief David Kunkle said. During the chase, the man fired at the officers, fatally wounding Jackson, Kunkle said. The suspect, Juan Lizcano, 28, was charged with one count of capital murder and was in police custody. Jackson, 28, was a five-year veteran of the Dallas police force and had previously served with the New York Police Department,...

A Seattle police officer called to a fight between a man and a woman made no arrests and took no report, instead quitting his shift early to take the woman involved to his place for sex. After an investigation prompted by the woman's fiancé, Officer Lance Basney was suspended for 30 days without pay. But this week, Basney succeeded in appealing that discipline before the city's Public Safety Civil Service Commission; his punishment was reduced to five days. Still, an attorney for the Police Department was pleased, saying the finding supports the department's position that even off-duty conduct matters. "We're...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A San Francisco police officer injured at an anarchists' protest remained hospitalized Saturday as Mayor Gavin Newsom vowed to get tough on violent demonstrators. The unidentified officer suffered a gash to his head when was struck with an unknown object as he confronted protesters late Friday at Mission and 23rd Street, said police officer Maria Oropeza. A photo taken by a passer-by and aired on KRON 4 news shows an officer, his head and face covered in blood, kneeling on the ground and clutching his police radio. Cody Tarlow, 21, of Felton and Doritt Earnst, 31,...

Police Officer Pulls Over His Stolen Car CHARLESTON, S.C. - An off-duty police officer on a Sunday drive saw something awfully familiar — his recently stolen Volkswagen Jetta. North Charleston patrolman Ethan Bernardi whipped his cruiser around and pulled over the stolen vehicle. He called other deputies, who arrested three suspects, police said. "One of the advantages to having off-duty police officers using their patrol cars while off-duty is that they are able to respond to crimes when needed," North Charleston Police Chief Jon Zumalt said. Investigators don't know how the suspects got the car, which was recently stolen from...

WARREN - When three pit bulls charged a Warren police officer and her police dog Thursday afternoon, her first thought was for the dog. The dog's first thought was for the officer. In the end, Officer Sherrey Ewanish walked away a little frazzled with a few minor scratches and bruises. Arras, the Dutch shepherd K-9, had a chunk taken out of her ear, a cut in the eye and puncture wounds going down her back. Two of the three pit bulls were shot and killed. Ewanish and Arras were responding to an alarm at 441 Elm Road N.E. when three...

Officer's Weapon Accidentally Discharges In Anderson County School Two Students Get Minor Cuts From Debris Story by The Carolina Channel ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. -- An Anderson County school resource officer's gun accidentally discharged Wednesday morning. Anderson County chief deputy Tim Busha said it all started when students asked school resource officer Robert Miller how his holster works. Busha said during the demonstration, Miller was trying to explain to the students that the holsters are so secure that no one could take an officer's gun. At that point, Miller told a student to try and take the gun out, said Busha....

Raul Montelongo Jr. has wanted to be a police officer since he was 4. Getting shot in the face during a traffic stop last week didn't change his mind. "I'm a fighter. I'll be back out there," the 35-year-old Houston Police Department officer said today. Montelongo, an officer since 1998, was shot in the face about 3 a.m. Friday after stopping a speeding vehicle in the 8400 block of the Eastex Freeway service road near Laura Koppe. Wounded, he managed to get to his radio and describe the car as it sped past. In his hand, he still clutched the...

MARTINEZ - A prosecutor said Wednesday he may seek the death penalty for one of two teenagers accused of killing Pittsburg police Officer Larry Lasater. The District Attorney's Office has charged Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Moffett, both 18, with murder, attempted murder, second degree robbery and several special circumstances, according to court documents. The two appeared in court for arraigment Wednesday but the public defender asked for a 10-day delay before the two enter their pleas. Each stood silently before the courtroom packed with police officers and Lasater's relatives. Contra Costa County Public Defender David Coleman, who rarely appears in...

A 42-year-old police officer arrested on charges he raped his teenage daughter has been released without bail, prosecutors said Wednesday. Prosecutors in Queens had requested $25,000 bail for the officer, whose name has been withheld by authorities. Queens Criminal Court Judge William Harrington ruled the defendant could go free after issuing an order barring him from having any contact with his 15-year-old daughter. The officer has been charged with rape, incest, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse based on allegations by the girl that he raped and molested her several times since 2001, court papers said. The...

A retired city police officer was found dead in his Long Island home on Sunday, apparently slashed to death by a samurai sword, authorities said. The former policeman, Scott Nager, 51, was found dead by his wife, Laura at about 1 p.m., said Officer Al Prim, a spokesman for the Suffolk County police. Nager served on the city police force for 15 years, working as a patrolman in the 34th precinct, which includes Washington Heights and Inwood. He retired in July, 1996 because of a service-related injury, The New York Times reported. Suffolk county police said Laura Nager's son, Zachary...

Teacher, cop charged with gun trafficking Friday, February 18, 2005 NEWARK - A schoolteacher and his wife, who is a police officer, were arrested Thursday as part of an undercover operation to crack a gun trafficking ring that included the teacher's brother-in-law, authorities said. Five rifles were sold for $9,200 over the course of the investigation, according to court papers. FBI agents found a 9mm handgun in the coat pocket of the teacher, William Mayes, as he was preparing to leave home for his ninth-grade class at Success Academy, part of West Side High School in Newark, Special Agent Steve...

Officer Placed On Paid Leave, Attorney Continues Efforts To Resolve Dispute OKLAHOMA CITY -- A transgender police officer has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the police department and has been placed on paid leave while she and the department try to work out their differences. Paula Schonauer's lawsuit, filed Dec. 20 in Oklahoma County District Court, does not discuss specific incidents of harassment. Her attorney, Doug Friesen, declined to go into details Tuesday while efforts continue to resolve the dispute and return her to the police force. She also filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in September, even though she...

A Columbus police officer responding to a prowler call was killed in a head-on crash with another motorist early Saturday.

New York - A New York City firefighter who had responded to the World Trade Centre attack was killed in Iraq while serving with the Army National Guard, city officials said. Sergeant Christian P Engeldrum, 39, is the first New York firefighter to die in Iraq since the US-led war began, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. Engeldrum was killed on Monday when his vehicle came under attack outside Baghdad. "I join all New Yorkers in mourning his loss and pray that his family finds comfort in the innumerable ways he touched so many lives," Bloomberg said in a statement. Another New...

Ben and Jerry's Boycott Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's Ice cream, schemes to "increase profits" by supporting a cop-killer. Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, co-authored a book titled "Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip : How to Run a Values-Led Business and Make Money, Too ". This book explains "How your commitment to worthy social causes will result in unprecedented customer and employee loyalty -- and increased profit". Ben Cohen believes that it's good for business to become involved in social causes. One of the social causes he has chosen to become involved in is the "Free Mumia Jamal"...

A teenager who allegedly beat a police officer unconscious during a protest outside Madison Square Garden was arrested at another demonstration in Union Square Tuesday. Jamal Holiday, 19, was identified using a videotape of Monday night’s incident. As protestors clashed with police, Detective William Sample was pulled off his scooter and was repeatedly punched and kicked. Sample has since been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. Holiday is charged with second-degree assault on a police officer.

A former cop with a history of psychiatric problems who claimed he found a flaming backpack that exploded in a Times Square subway station was charged yesterday with causing the blast. Detectives arrested Joseph Rodriguez, 27, at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where he had checked himself in for treatment of undisclosed psychiatric problems. He was charged with arson, weapons possession and reckless endangerment in relation to the July 19 incident. ~snip~ Cops said his fingerprints were found on the knapsack, evidence that contradicted his own statements that he had never touched it, but kicked it during the incident. Sources said eyewitnesses...

A former POW in Iraq names an Ashley-based reservist in a complaint against the U.S. Army. And he compared the treatment at his camp to the abuse that's making international news. Hossam Shaltout said widespread mistreatment from soldiers in Camp Bucca, where he was imprisoned last year, was as inhumane as that depicted in recent photos from Camp Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Shaltout described Camp Bucca as a "torture camp" where soldiers beat and humiliated prisoners, had them lie naked atop each other or pose in sexual positions. "They wanted us to have sex with each other," Shaltout said. He...

<p>PALM BEACH, Florida -- A new computer chip promises to keep police guns from firing if they fall into the wrong hands.</p> <p>The tiny chip would be implanted in a police officer's hand and would match up with a scanning device inside a handgun. If the officer and gun match, a digital signal unlocks the trigger so it can be fired. But if a child or criminal would get hold of the gun, it would be useless.</p>

White Castle Security Tapes Subpoenaed In 911 Investigation Did Officers Stop For "Sliders" En Route To Distress Call? CHICAGO -- A lawyer representing the family of a woman who was murdered as she called 911 has subpoenaed videotapes from two fast food restaurants. NBC5's Derrick Blakey reported that while it's only a tip, the attorney would like to see security tapes from White Castle restaurants at 103rd Street and Michigan Avenue, and at 11th and Halsted streets. They want to determine whether the first Chicago police officers assigned to respond to Ronayle White's distress call went for "sliders" instead....

After only about an hour and 45 minutes of deliberation, a jury found today that a man serving a 98-year term for murder had fatally shot a Rahway, N.J., police officer nearly 45 years ago. The jury awarded the officer's family $9.5 million in damages. After the decision, Elizabeth Bernoskie, the 72-year-old widow of the officer, Charles Bernoskie, exchanged hugs of jubilation with her six grown children and several of her 16 grandchildren. Family members said they were overjoyed that someone had finally been found legally responsible for a murder that had lingered unresolved for nearly half a century. The...

Off-Duty Bans Should cops have guns? By John R. Lott Jr. After a city-council member was recently killed at New York City Hall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg questioned why James Davis, the murdered councilman, would want to carry a gun. Davis, a retired police officer, had a permit to carry a gun, but Mayor Bloomberg found it very troubling: "I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people…" Bloomberg's new solution: Ban off-duty and former cops from being able to carry guns in city hall. Davis was blindsided by the attack and was unable to use his gun to protect...

Officer Resigns Over Allegations He Made Girl Exercise Topless PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A city police officer resigned over allegations that he chose to punish a 16-year-old girl by making her perform jumping jacks while topless. Patrick Shields, 31, resigned Wednesday, about a half-hour before Police Chief John Mathis planned to recommend that the fourth-year officer be fired. The incident allegedly occurred April 29, when Shields found the girl and a 19-year-old male together in a parked car. Shields made the two teens - neither of whom were identified by police - exit their vehicle, then told them he could...

Police have confirmed that a suspected terrorist who stabbed a detective during an anti-terrorist raid was not handcuffed at any stage. Special Branch detective constable Stephen Oake, 40, died as three suspects of north African origin, aged 23, 27 and 29, were being detained at a flat in Crumpsall, north Manchester in a raid linked to last week's discovery of the deadly poison ricin. Questions are being asked about why the suspect was not handcuffed, and how he was able to launch an attack with a kitchen knife more than an hour after the initial raid - killing the father-of-three,...

What follows is a timeline of events of my involvement in the Red Bluff, CA police officer slaying. The original story was posted on Free Republic HERE. My first update to the story and request for assistance was posted HERE. BTW .... my thanks to everyone who copied the RBPD composit and posted it in stores and gas stations. Please go back now and take them down. On Friday evening, I received the following email (I have redacted the domains of the receipents as there is NO evidence to suggest any involvement by them in this crime): Return-Path: < americanresistance@yahoo.com...

<p>Students from Red Bluff High School joined in downtown Red Bluff today to show support and compassion to local law enforcement following the tragic death of Red Bluff Police Officer David Mobilio earlier this week.</p> <p>Students from the sophomore leadership classes, student government and peer partners organized the event that included leaving fresh flowers on the bell outside the police department, as well as congregating on the four corners of Main Street, Oak Street and Antelope Boulevard. The carnations were a donation from the Gazebo Floral and Gift Shoppe in Red Bluff.</p>

A rainbow forms behind Phoenix police Officer Jason Schechterle while he attends the 14th annual Candlelight Vigil at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. "I don't want people to stare," he said. "I can see him." Suzie Schechterle can't believe the transformation. In front of her, her husband, Phoenix police Officer Jason Schechterle, is wearing a pair of prosthetic ears and a prosthetic nose. His face, ruined by fire, looks so normal. A small image of the Jason that used to be is peeking through. Robert Barron, who made the prostheses, dips a brush into some paint...

Officer fatally shot responding to call Gunman, 67, is found dead in White Settlement house 04/25/2002 By NANCY CALAWAY and JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News WHITE SETTLEMENT - A police officer responding to a domestic disturbance without wearing a bulletproof vest was fatally shot Wednesday by a man who officials said had a history of mental problems. Capt. George Scott Monier, 37, is the first White Settlement police officer to die in the line of duty. Police say Capt. Monier fired at least one shot at the gunman, who was later found dead inside the Tarrant County...