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  • Fla. Officer Apologizes for Comments

    08/09/2006 7:11:51 PM PDT · by SmithL · 32 replies · 892+ views
    AP ^ | 8/9/6
    Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - A high-ranking sheriff's officer apologized Wednesday for insensitive comments he and other officers made about demonstrators after a free speech summit in 2003 in Miami. The comments wound up in a police-training video produced a day later. The video shows Maj. John Brooks and other officers praising each other for shooting protesters with rubber bullets. "Looking back at the tape, in hindsight, I shouldn't have said those things," Brooks said in a report published Wednesday night on The Miami Herald's Web site. Broward County Sheriff's officials said no one would face disciplinary action in connection with...
  • Deputy Involved Shooting (Tampa/Sun City, FL)

    04/14/2006 11:26:19 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 8 replies · 443+ views
    TBO ^ | 4-14-06 | Chris Chmura
    There has been a deputy-involved shooting and a cruiser crash in southern Hillsborough County this afternoon. News Channel 8 says deputies shot a criminal suspect after a multi-car accident. It is unclear whether there was a chase involved. The sheriff’s office says the investigation is underway near U.S. Hwy. 301 and Sun City Center Blvd, outside a Publix shopping center. News Channel 8 said two deputies have been injured and at least one suspect has been shot several times. There may have been a second suspect. The deputies were not suffering gunshot wounds, and their injuries were not life threatening....