CROWN POINT, Ind. June 14 2020 A man is dead and an Indiana State Police trooper is injured after a shootout on Interstate 65 Friday night. The Lake County Coroner’s Office has identified 23-year-old Caine Van Pelt, of Chicago, as the suspect who was killed. The incident started with a carjacking at a gas station […]
Seattle WA Jan 13 2020 Reversing course just two days after news reports sparked a social media backlash, Starbucks says it will now allow employees to wear T-shirts and accessories in support of Black Lives Matter. “We see you. We hear you. Black Lives Matter. That is a fact and will never change,” the company […]
SAN ANTONIO TX June 13 2020 A woman who was shot by a bar security guard overnight has succumbed to her injuries, according to officials. She was taken to University Hospital in critical condition after she and other suspects were in a vehicle that ran over a security guard. The other suspects’ whereabouts are currently […]
RALEIGH, N.C. June 12 2020 North Carolina State University Police have arrested and charged a man in connection with a fatal shooting that happened on campus Wednesday evening. Theodore James Lee Jr., 23, of Raleigh, is charged with murder, university police announced Thursday morning. The shooting was first reported around 6:30 p.m. along the 1200-block of […]
STONY BROOK, N.Y. June 12 2020 A man has been arrested after he allegedly brought three explosive devices into Stony Brook University Hospital. According to the Suffolk County Police Department, a hospital security guard called State University Police at Stony Brook after a suspicious man entered the emergency department at around 9 p.m. Tuesday. When officers […]
Seattle WA June 12 2020 Private security contractor Denise Bamba remembers the point last week when she couldn’t get off the telephone. It was the Monday after weekend protests occurred in downtown Seattle over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Fortress Security Services, co-owned by Bamba and her husband, Deschamps, was besieged by local businesses […]
Charlottesville VA June 12 2020 Charlottesville City Schools is ending its current school resource officer program with a goal to have a new model in place before school starts Aug. 19 — a decision that comes after weeks of protests locally and nationally about policing. Many local activists, including from the Charlottesville chapter of the Black […]
AKRON, Ohio June 12 2020— Former Akron Art Museum employee Michael Murphy on Wednesday strongly denied allegations made against him by another former museum employee in a lawsuit she filed against the museum and its former director late Monday in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas. The lawsuit, filed by former museum security guard […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. June 12 2020 The North Carolina prison system has contracted with a private security firm to provide armed guards at some prisons across the state. Salisbury-based P&G Security will be paid up to $1.4 million to provide security guards to work at prisons across the state, a prison spokesman said. According to the spokesman, […]
PADUCAH, Ky. June 12 2020 A concerned Paducah citizen discusses training for security officers and race relations after an incident caught on camera at a local mall. On Saturday evening, while some teenager were waiting for their parents at the Kentucky Oaks Mall, a security guard says they sat on a flower pot and broke it. […]