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A Kentucky man led police on a crazy car chase after his bright Yellow Ford Mustang was spotted going 143 mph. According to ABC News, 47-year-old Steven Alford from Roundhill, Kentucky was spotted zooming around at about 12:58 p.m. on Saturday, speeding eastbound on Bluegrass Parkway in a 70 mph zone. However, the only reason the police chase ended when […]
Sara Erwin, a police officer in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, has been fired after she compared the Black Lives Matter movement to “terrorists” in a post on social media. NJ.com reports that Erwin was fired for the post she made on Facebook, while officer Sgt. Mandy Grey will be suspended for six months for replying to a comment. […]
The New York Police Department has said good-bye to Spot—a canine-like robot from engineering company Boston Dynamics. According to the New York Times, the department had acquired about 500 models of the four-legged robot, which it nicknamed Digidog, back in August 2020 and had intended to test their capabilities for an entire year. Officials argued that the machine could […]
Body-cam footage of the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia is receiving renewed attention this week after an extended video was made public showing officers watching and laughing the recording. As highlighted by the Daily Beast’s Jamie Ross on Monday, the hour-long surveillance video shows the two officers from the Loveland Police Department […]
Chilling footage of Dave Grossman, an ex-Army Ranger who became a notorious police trainer, has resurfaced amid constant and ongoing examples of police brutality nationwide. For some background, Grossman was among the law enforcement figures featured in a 2018 film from director Craig Atkinson titled Do Not Resist. “It’s my hope that both community members […]
On Tuesday, a verdict was reached in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the now-former Minneapolis cop who was filmed fatally holding his knee to George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds on May 25, 2020. Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts—second degree murder, third degree murder, and second degree manslaughter. […]
The Black Buffalo police officer that was fired in 2008 for stopping a white officer from putting a suspect in a chokehold has won a ruling to receive her pension and back pay, CNN reports. Officer Cariol Horne was fired after she stopped her colleague from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect. Horne was a […]
U.S. Capitol police officers were instructed to not use key crowd control equipment in the fatal Jan. 6 riot, a new report from an internal investigator shows. The 104-page document, detailed in a New York Times report from Luke Broadwater on Tuesday, is at the heart of a Capitol Hill hearing set for later this […]
A video of a robot dog exiting a building in New York has gone viral, with many comparing it to iRobot, The Terminator, RoboCop, and Black Mirror. Called the Digidog, the 70-pound machine was first utilized by the NYPD at the end of last year and has been deployed in different scenarios, including resolving a […]
An NYPD officer was arrested on Monday near her home in the Bronx on marijuana charges, New York Daily News reports. A warrant was filed for the arrest of Catherine Soto, 31, after she allegedly sold marijuana and a small amount of painkiller to an investigator for the Internal Affairs Bureau in November and December […]
