Nashville TN Jan 10 2021 Security at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on Broadway notified police that two men had jumped off from the roof of the building with parachutes on New Year’s Day. Security told metro police that they were detaining the men. Metro patrol officers responded, and Central Precinct detectives investigated the incident. They […]
Monroe Louisiana January 10 2021 Ouachita Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested a Monroe man last week for assaulting an employee at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe. Len Williams, 52, of Monroe, was booked at Ouachita Correctional Center for battery of an emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel or a healthcare professional. According to the Jan. […]
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. Jan 10 2021 A corrections officer and a nurse were sent to the hospital Friday evening for possible exposure to fentanyl, according to the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security. It happened at the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston. Lawrence Messina, spokesperson for WVDHS, says two inmates appeared to be in need of […]
Deputy Sheriff Johnathan David Price Marion County Sheriff’s Office, South Carolina End of Watch Wednesday, January 6, 2021 BIO Age 29 Tour 3 years, 3 months Badge Not available INCIDENT DETAILS Cause Automobile crash Deputy Sheriff Johnathan Price was killed in a vehicle crash at the intersection of Maiden Down Road and Jackson Road at […]
Officer Brian David Sicknick United States Capitol Police, U.S. Government End of Watch Thursday, January 7, 2021 BIO Age 42 Tour 12 years Badge Not available Military Veteran INCIDENT DETAILS Cause Assault Location District of Columbia Incident Date Wednesday, January 6, 2021 Weapon Person Offender Not available Officer Brian Sicknick succumbed to injuries sustained the […]
St Louis County MO Jan 9 2021 When a police officer rang the doorbell Monday morning at Porscha Outen’s home in north St. Louis County, her mind raced through every possible emergency. The officer wanted to speak to Outen’s 15-year-old daughter Paris about a failing grade at Ritenour High School, which she is attending virtually for […]
Louisville KY January 9 2021 Exactly one year after an altercation between a Louisville bar employee and a patron left that patron dead, a Kentucky state representative filed a bill in his honor. Rep. Lisa Willner, D-35th, named the bill “Christopher’s Law” after her constituent, Christopher McKinney. McKinney died in the early hours of Jan. 5, […]
ORLANDO, Fla. Jan 9 2021 – A man who had just gotten into a fight at a nightclub downtown grabbed a belt rope stanchion from outside the bar and hit an officer in the head, according to the Orlando Police Department. Records show 27-year-old Khareem Calderon was at Shots Orlando on Dec. 19 around 11:30 p.m. […]
San Francisco CA January 9 2021 BART plans to use nearly $2 million budgeted to fill six vacant police officer positions to hire social work-trained civilians to respond to homelessness, mental illness and drug addiction that plague the train system. They are not replacing the police positions in this process; they just are not hiring additional […]
Washington DC Jan 9 2021 Battered by a wave of coronavirus infections and deaths, local jails and state prison systems around the United States have resorted to a drastic strategy to keep the virus at bay: Shutting down completely and transferring their inmates elsewhere. From California to Missouri to Pennsylvania, state and local officials say that […]