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Child struck by bullet. Thankfully a police officer was close by to deal with an issue with the dog. In a related story, the officer's gun had been fired in recent past. More updates as they become available.

Update: the dog is still alive.

06-20-2015 , 02:32 PM

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Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by DVaut1

Update: the dog is still alive.

Which doesn't really add up, because you'd think he would have fired another shot at the dog if the first one missed. Did the dog suddenly stop being a threat after the first shot?

06-20-2015 , 03:42 PM

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rjoefish

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Noise could have easily scared the dog away.

06-20-2015 , 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by rjoefish

Noise could have easily scared the dog away.

Thats the current training after they got all that bad pub for killing so many dogs. Now when a menacing dog is coming at you, its not necessary to actually shoot to kill the dog. Just discharge your firearm harmlessly into a wall, ceiling, or 4 year old, and the noise is usually good enough to resolve the situation.

06-20-2015 , 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by vhawk01

lol

I'm gonna guess that after the cop realized he shot a 4 year old, he was too focused on that to notice the family dog that was violently whipping his tail side to side in a menacing manner.

06-21-2015 , 08:24 AM

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Man with towel-wrapped arm shot by LAPD in Los Feliz was unarmed

There is a link to a video in the article. They basically put a bullet through his brain.

06-21-2015 , 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Aytumious

Man with towel-wrapped arm shot by LAPD in Los Feliz was unarmed

There is a link to a video in the article. They basically put a bullet through his brain.

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Smith said investigators would explore all possibilities, including whether the man needed some type of help from police. He said investigators would also look into the man's background to see if there were any indications the shooting was an attempted "suicide by cop."

The man's name has not been released.

"We cover everything. Our investigators leave no stone unturned," Smith said. "We don't have any idea about this guy's background. We just don't know yet."

LOL I love how the investigation is clearly aimed at finding some way to blame the shooting on the victim.

07-02-2015 , 12:29 AM

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The police and the mentally ill

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/inv...eadly-results/

07-08-2015 , 04:13 PM

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NYPD fearing for their lives while arresting unarmed autistic teens

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The complaint filed in federal court this week seeks monetary damages against three unnamed officers following the Nov. 12, 2014, incident. The suit claims uniformed police threw 17-year-old Troy Canales to the ground, beat him, and took him into custody without just cause. No charges were filed against him.

A copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Huffington Post says Canales, who is now 18, was leaning on a car when three NYPD officers approached him "in a menacing manner and demanded to know what he was doing."

Canales responded that he was just "chilling," but two officers took hold of his arms and "forcefully threw him down onto the sidewalk, smashing his head against the concrete," the suit claims. One officer allegedly punched him in the face. When the boy screamed for his mother, she came running out of the house and explained to the cops that her son has autism. Police ignored her and took the boy into custody.

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According to the lawsuit, the officers took Canales to the precinct, where he was held without reason for an hour before the commanding officer agreed to release him to his mother. One of the officers involved told Valentine that he had "feared for his life" when he spoke to her son on the sidewalk.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/77525...ushpmg00000067

07-11-2015 , 11:53 AM

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Philly cops make a drug arrest, charge the man with aggravated assault on the officers and state that he was inflicting injuries to himself by banging his head against the squad car. Video reveals that a mob of cops beat the **** out of him.

I n t e r n a l a f f a i r s i s i n v e s t i g a t i n g

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...-tyree-carroll

07-11-2015 , 12:33 PM

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John McNesby, president of Philadelphia’s Fraternal Order of Police, viewed the video of Carroll’s arrest and described it as “good policing”, in an interview with Newsweek.

26 cops beating 1 black guy = good policing

07-11-2015 , 02:02 PM

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If he stops resisting they stop beating.

Not the officers fault it's impossible to stop resisting in that situation

07-12-2015 , 09:31 AM

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This cop gets the shameless audacity award

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In profanity-laden terms, Rossi is seen on video telling the teen what's going to happen if he doesn't shut up.
"I'll break your f***ing neck," he says in the recording, which News 8 obtained through an open records request. "You understand me? You understand me?"

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In his statement to internal investigators, Rossi said he was using "verbal judo" to try to get information from the teen. He said that telling him he would break his neck was a "verbal technique that I've used to try to calm down people or suspects in my career with no intention of ever meaning the words I say."

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local...teen/29800143/

07-12-2015 , 09:50 AM

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Tuscaloosa officers involved in fatal pepper spray arrest not placed on leave

http://www.al.com/news/tuscaloosa/in...nvolved_i.html

07-12-2015 , 10:10 AM

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Ro Ti

07-15-2015 , 05:26 PM

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Surprised no one has posted this video of cops murdering Ricardo Diaz-Zeferino in the course of a bicycle theft investigation:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ce-made-public

The killers are still on patrol of course.

07-15-2015 , 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by bobman0330

I posted that in the Baltimore thread this morning and was surprised how much people here were like "meh, if you can't keep your hands up you deserve to get shot". That surprised me.

07-15-2015 , 08:39 PM

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I posted that in the Baltimore thread this morning and was surprised how much people here were like "meh, if you can't keep your hands up you deserve to get shot". That surprised me.

If that were true John McCain would have been shot a long time ago.

07-15-2015 , 08:46 PM

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Love Sosa

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Kid was clearly reaching for his waistband, cops feared for their lives, hopefully there will be an internal investigation.

07-20-2015 , 11:42 AM

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Massachusetts town won't hire cops who say they would arrest a fellow officer or family member.

http://www.photographyisnotacrime.co...ow-discretion/

07-20-2015 , 11:34 PM

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"things like this happen."

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/2015...e-lawsuit-says

(obv. officer "feared for his life")

07-21-2015 , 03:27 AM

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Massachusetts town won't hire cops who say they would arrest a fellow officer or family member.

http://www.photographyisnotacrime.co...ow-discretion/

Well, they are most likely lying when they say they would arrest a family member.

07-21-2015 , 06:46 AM

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Chicago police investigator fired for refusing to reverse findings that police shootings were unjustified.

http://www.wbez.org/news/city-fires-...ootings-112423

07-21-2015 , 12:37 PM

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Twenty-eight-year-old Sandra Bland was arrested Friday after a traffic stop for failing to use her turn signal while changing lanes. Three days later, on Monday, she was found dead in her jail cell in Waller County, northwest of Houston. Jail officials said her death was a suicide, a claim disputed by her family.

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Bland was involved in the Black Lives Matter movement and had posted a series of videos online speaking out against police brutality and racial injustice.

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On Thursday, video footage surfaced of her arrest, which appears to show police pushing Sandra Bland to the pavement and restraining her as she asks why she is being treated so roughly and why they slammed her head on the ground.

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...on Monday, the lawyer for the Bland family described newly obtained dash cam footage of the arrest, which shows that the police escalated a routine traffic stop by ordering Bland to extinguish her cigarette.

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Originally Posted by Cannon Lambert, Bland family lawyer

The dash cam video shows that the officer makes the stop, shows him approach from the passenger side and ask for a driver’s license and insurance, which she gives him. He goes back. He runs her name. He approaches her again after doing so, on the driver’s side. He asks her to put out a cigarette. She says, 'Why do I have to put out a cigarette when I'm in my own car?’ And that seemed to irritate him to the point where he said, 'Get out of the car.'

The officer who arrested Sandra Bland has been put on desk duty for violating traffic procedures during the stop.

Bolded was a clever solution by the cop. What can she say now other than, touche.