PARIS (AP) — Security will be tight across France on New Year’s Eve, with 90,000 law enforcement officers set to be deployed, domestic intelligence chief Céline Berthon said Friday. Of those, 6,000 will be in Paris, where French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said over 1.5 million people are expected to attend celebrations on the Champs-Elysees. […]
Ivan Vyhivskyi, Chief of the National Police of Ukraine, has stated that the police are responsible for security within the country and are already involved to the maximum degree as part of the Security and Defence Forces, responding to a proposal to mobilise 100,000 law enforcement officers. Source: Vyhivskyi in an interview with Ukrainski Novyny […]
Three Washington state police officers were found not guilty of all criminal charges in the fatal arrest of Manuel Ellis — a Black man who was walking home in 2020 when deputies confronted him before being pinned down and brutalized as he pleaded, “I can’t breathe.” The more than two-month trial ended Dec. 21 as […]
Atlanta police officers released video from a recent arrest on Pryor Street. According to police, a business on Pryor Street reported a robbery had occurred on Dec. 19. When officers arrived, an employee said a man had entered the restaurant, threatened to “shoot up the place,” then stole cash out of the tip jar before […]
Dec. 23—A Nashville man was taken into custody following a manhunt that took place in Wilson County on Monday morning. Marco Lewis, 42, faces a series of charges following the incident. According to information provided by the Mt. Juliet Police Department and Wilson County Sheriff’s Department, at approximately 9:45 on Wednesday morning, a grey Honda […]
A US jury has cleared three police officers of all criminal charges in the death of a black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained face-down on the street as he pleaded for breath. Two of the officers – Matthew Collins, 40, and Christopher Burbank, 38 – had been charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter, […]
Donald Trump made a phone call in November 2020 in which he put pressure on two Republican election officers in Michigan not to sign the official document from the state confirming that Joe Biden had won the presidential election there, according to an exclusive report by The Detroit News late on Thursday. The Detroit News […]
Dec. 20—Representatives of 21 law enforcement agencies in Berks County recently converged on Boscov’s North in Muhlenberg Township for Crime Alert Berks County’s annual Shop with a Cop event. Twenty-eight elementary school-age children representing most of the districts in the county were paired with an officer to shop for their family members for the Dec. […]
A county commissioner in Ohio criticized the county sheriff for conditions at the jail. Then the sheriff’s officers arrested her. Now, Niki Frenchko, the Trumbull County commissioner, is suing the sheriff and his department, the county, the deputies and the other commissioners. Frenchko is the only woman and only Republican on the three-person board of […]
With the arrival of beach weather, climate change threatens to turn summers into months to endure rather than enjoy. Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in May showed that 46% of the U.S. will be experiencing hotter than average temperatures between June and August of this year, with the most extreme increase in […]
Philadelphia police say the pursuit of a suspected gunman ended in a shootout that left two officers and a suspect wounded ByThe Associated Press December 10, 2023, 11:01 AM PHILADELPHIA — A police pursuit of a suspected gunman ended in a shootout that left two officers and a suspect wounded, police said. The shooting happened […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indianapolis police officers were acquitted early Saturday of using excessive force to strike two women with batons during arrests at a May 2020 protest against racial injustice and police brutality. Officers Jonathan Horlock and Nathaniel Schauwecker had been charged with battery and official misconduct in the case. They were among officers […]