Posts Tagged ‘officer safety & awareness’
Manhunt underway in rugged Australian bush after gunman kills two policemen
Australian police on Wednesday identified a suspect who shot and killed two police officers and seriously wounded a third as the search for the shooter entered day two in a vast, remote rural area in the country’s southeast. Dezi Freeman, 56, was heavily armed and experienced in wilderness survival skills, Victoria’s Chief Commissioner of Police…
Read MoreTexas man arrested for allegedly making bomb threats outside ICE facility
Authorities in Dallas arrested a 36-year old man who the Department of Homeland Security says issued bomb threats against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on Monday. Shortly after 6:30 p.m. Monday, Bratton Dean Wilkinson allegedly approached security officers and showed them what he claimed to be a “detonator” on his wrist, prompting a…
Read MorePorepunkah shooting: Weapons stolen from fatally wounded officers, alleged offender a ‘sovereign citizen’
Sovereign citizen Dezi Freeman is the target of a major manhunt in Victoria’s alpine region after allegedly executing two policemen and wounding a third in an ambush attack at a remote farm near Porepunkah, about 320 kilometres from Melbourne. Freeman, who once described police as terrorist thugs and Nazis when he was arrested in 2020…
Read MoreLicense plate camera company halts cooperation with federal agencies
One of the nation’s leading operators of automated license-plate reading systems announced Monday it has paused its operations with federal agencies because of confusion and concern — including in Illinois — about the purpose of their investigations. Flock Safety, whose cameras are mounted in more than 4,000 communities nationwide, put a hold last week on…
Read MoreWoman reportedly wielding explosive device shot by Michigan sheriff’s deputy
A 36-year-old woman has been hospitalized after being shot by a Mecosta County sheriff’s deputy. It happened at about 11:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 22, in Mecosta Township, just south of Big Rapids. According to the sheriff’s office, deputies were helping a man with a woman who was refusing to leave his property. The woman allegedly…
Read MoreColleges across the country deal with shooting hoaxes as classes resume
At least a half-dozen universities across the country welcomed students to first-day-of-fall classes Monday with run-and-hide warnings about possible gunmen on campus. In almost all the cases, police and administrators said the reports were hoaxes or swatting calls, which is when someone uses temporary cellphone numbers and voice-cloaking apps to create havoc. A few campuses…
Read MoreNational Guard troops in Washington, DC, begin carrying weapons
US National Guard members deployed to Washington, DC, started carrying their sidearms on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Joint Task Force carrying out the mission told CNN. This follows a directive by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week that authorized members of the National Guard, who were deployed as part of President Donald Trump’s anti-crime…
Read MoreBomb and attack on helicopter in Colombia kill at least 17, including police officers
A car bomb and a separate attack on a police helicopter in Colombia killed at least 17 people Thursday, according to authorities. President Gustavo Petro attributed both attacks to dissidents of the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, commonly known as FARC. At least 12 police officers died in the attack on a helicopter that…
Read MoreGeorgia man may have tried to enter CDC campus two days before he attacked agency
The Georgia man who shot at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention buildings on Aug. 8 apparently tried to enter the campus two days earlier but was turned away by security, according to an internal CDC email. Security video indicates “a very high likelihood” that the 30-year-old shooter — Patrick Joseph White — tried to…
Read MoreVillanova University says active shooter report was a ‘cruel hoax’
Villanova University said a report of a possible shooter at its law school was a “cruel hoax,” after it issued an alert warning of an active shooter on its Pennsylvania campus on Thursday. “Mercifully, no one was injured, and we now know that it was a cruel hoax — there was no active shooter, no…
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