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GOP Senators Threaten To Block Bill To Avert Shutdown

The Hill reports: A bill to avert a partial government shutdown Friday night is running into delays in the Senate. Absent unanimous consent or an agreement between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Republicans, the upper chamber might not be able to vote until final passage before Saturday — after the government shutdown deadline but before many effects of …

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Miami Cop Charged With DUI After On-Duty Crash Into Marked Police Car, Drawing Gun On Fellow Cop [VIDEO]

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: Detective Victor Manuel Montalvo crashed the unmarked Miami-Dade Police Department car he was driving into a marked police cruiser while driving drunk, according to his colleagues. The police officer, who was injured, reported having to draw his side-arm and order Montalvo, 43, at gunpoint to drop his department-issued gun after he pulled it out from his …

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Cops: Texas Church Shooter Never Identified As Trans

“Our shooter is identified by a driver’s license as Genesee Moreno 36 years old, Hispanic female. There are some discrepancies. We do have reports she used multiple aliases, including Jeffrey Escalante. So she has utilized both male and female names but through all of our investigation to this point, talking with individuals, interviews, documents, Houston Police Department reports, she has …

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FL Bill Creates 60-Day “Virtual Currency” Tax Holiday

Florida Politics reports: A plan to grant a two-month sales tax holiday on select items purchased with “virtual currency” would save consumers boatloads of cash, but it’s not because Floridians would flock to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. State economists analyzing SB 352, sponsored by Sen. Jason Brodeur, a Sanford Republican, determined the measure would cost state coffers nearly $1.4 billion. …

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Police Search Home Of Texas Megachurch Shooter

CNN reports: The woman entered the church accompanied by a child who Houston Police Chief Troy Finner estimated to be between “4 to 5 years old.” “Once she entered, at some point she began to fire,” the chief said. Two off-duty officers were present: a 28-year-old Houston Police Department officer and a 38-year-old agent with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, …

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Grand Jury To Consider Charges For Uvalde Police

The Uvalde News-Leader reports: A jury has been convened in Uvalde to determine if law enforcement officers will face criminal charges related to the attack at Robb Elementary School. On Friday, Jan. 19, a dozen people were selected to serve on a special grand jury that is expected to spend at least six months studying the May 24, 2022, Robb …

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DOJ Report Blasts Police “Failures” In Uvalde Shooting

The Texas Tribune reports: The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a withering report into the hundreds of Texas law enforcement officers’ fumbled response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, finding “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training.” The long-anticipated 575-page report detailed the many failures of the May 24, 2022 response, but concluded the most significant …

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St. Louis Police Accused Of Falsely Charging Gay Bar Owner With Assault After Police SUV Crashes Into Bar

The Riverfront Times reports: A south St. Louis bar owner is now facing charges stemming from an incident that began when police crashed an SUV through the front wall of his business. The incident happened in the city’s Carondelet neighborhood around 12:30 a.m. today, when a police SUV traveling northbound on South Broadway swerved across multiple lanes of traffic and …

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Attempted Murder Charge In Stabbing Of Chauvin

The Associated Press reports: An incarcerated former gang member and FBI informant was charged Friday with attempted murder in the stabbing last week of ex-Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at a federal prison in Arizona. John Turscak stabbed Chauvin 22 times at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson and said he would’ve killed Chauvin had correctional officers not responded so …

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Officials: Chauvin To Survive Severe Prison Stabbing

The New York Daily News reports: Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, will most likely live after being stabbed by a fellow inmate, an official said Saturday. “We have heard that he is expected to survive,” said Brian Evans, a spokesman for the Minnesota attorney general’s office. Details were scant on what led up …

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AP: Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin Stabbed By Fellow Inmate

The Associated Press reports: Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The attack happened at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson, a medium-security prison that has been plagued by security lapses …

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SCOTUS Rejects Appeal By Former Cop Derek Chauvin

Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of his conviction for the murder of George Floyd during a 2020 arrest, which sparked widespread protests against police brutality and racism. The justices turned away Chauvin’s appeal that he filed after a Minnesota appellate court upheld his 2021 murder …

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NYPD Officer Spewed Anti-Gay Slur Over Loudspeaker

Gay City News reports: The Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) is calling on the NYPD to take swift action after a viral video shared on Instagram Oct. 26 appeared to show an officer using an anti-gay slur. In the video, posted by the Instagram user @skymilezz, an officer sitting in a police vehicle at a red light speaks into a …

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Maine To Probe Police Response To Mass Shooting

“A cornerstone of the ability to heal is to know the truth – in this case, the facts of what happened on that tragic night, of the months that led up to it, and of the police response to it. “It is important to recognize that, from what we know thus far, on multiple occasions over the last ten months, …

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Capitol Cop Who Battled Rioters May Run For Congress

Axios reports: Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who testified to the Jan. 6 select committee about his experience during the Capitol riot, is considering a run for Congress. Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) announced Thursday he will not run for a 10th term, opening up his safely Democratic district in the central Maryland suburbs for the first time in nearly two …

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Texas Police To Pay $175,000 For Refusing To Respond To Reports Of Cultists Menacing Biden Campaign Bus

The Texas Tribune reports: San Marcos police officers and professional staff must receive training on responding to political violence and voter intimidation and ways to develop community trust as part of a legal settlement approved Tuesday over a 2020 incident in which a caravan of Trump supporters were accused of harassing a Biden campaign bus as it drove on Interstate …

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Police Contractor Charged With “Sex Doll Tampering”

Omaha’s NBC affiliate reports: An employee with a company that assists authorities in transporting dead bodies was arrested — and fired — after he allegedly tampered with one such scene last week. Ryan Smith, 41, was arrested Friday and is facing charges of burglary, criminal trespassing, and tampering with physical evidence. Smith had contacted the property manager saying the Sarpy …

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NJ Man Plows Into Police Station, Gets Terrorism Charge

ABC News reports: A 34-year-old New Jersey man is in jail on terrorism charges after authorities alleged he deliberately drove his SUV into a home and a police station while blaring the Guns N’ Roses’ song “Welcome to the Jungle” from his stereo. John G. Hargreaves was immediately taken into custody when his Toyota SUV came crashing through the lobby …

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NYPD To Deploy “Robocop” In Times Square Subway

Gothamist reports: A 420-pound, 5-foot-2-inch robocop with a giant camera for a face will begin patrolling the Times Square subway station overnight, the NYPD announced Friday morning. At a press conference held underground in the 42nd Street subway station, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the city is launching a two-month pilot program to test the Knightscope K5 Autonomous …

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Suspect In 11 Serial Killings Arrested On Long Island

The Associated Press reports: A suspect has been taken into custody on New York’s Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Friday. The case has drawn immense public attention since human remains were found along a New York beach highway more than …

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