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Heavy.com reports: Noah Green, a former college football player and Nation of Islam adherent, was named as the knife-wielding, now-deceased suspect who rammed a car into a U.S. Capitol barricade, exiting with a knife and killing one Capitol police officer while injuring another. Green’s Nation of Islam beliefs emerged through a review of his now-deleted Facebook page by Heavy, although …

ABC News reports: After reports that someone hit two U.S. Capitol Police officers with a car, Capitol Police opened fire at the north barricade of the Capitol complex, law enforcement sources tell ABC News. Two officers are said to be injured, one critically, the sources said. Law enforcement sources tell ABC News the suspect is dead. A vehicle occupied “by …

The Associated Press reports: Police locked down the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon after a report of gunshots in the area. U.S. Capitol Police say all Capitol buildings were being locked down “due to an external security threat” and staff members were told they could not enter or exit the buildings. A law enforcement official says officers were responding to …

The Washington Post reports: Two Capitol Police officers who battled the mob of pro-Trump supporters that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 are suing the former president for the physical and emotional injuries they say they suffered in the attacks. In a federal suit filed Tuesday in D.C., Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby allege that for months, Trump rallied …

The New York Daily News reports: The sale of recreational marijuana would be legal for adults 21 and older in the Empire State, under a bill top lawmakers agreed to late Saturday. It’s expected to pass both chambers of the legislature as soon as next week. Coming after years of harsh penalties for marijuana possession — with many New Yorkers …

CBS New York reports: The New York City Council has voted to end qualified immunity for police officers. The decades-old protection has prevented officers from being sued or liable for misconduct. New York is now the first city in the country to end qualified immunity. Critics argued scrapping the protection will make officers less aggressive in fighting crime, if they …

NBC News reports: An Atlanta-area sheriff’s office on Thursday said it regrets “any heartache” caused by the comments of a department spokesman who said the suspect in the spa shootings that left eight people dead was having a “bad day.” The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office acknowledged that comments Wednesday by Capt. Jay Baker were “construed as insensitive,” but the department …

The Daily Beast reports: A Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson came under fire Wednesday afternoon for pinning the deadly Tuesday shooting rampage that left eight dead—including six Asian women—on a 21-year-old white man’s “very bad day.” “Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Jay Baker said during the joint news conference with …

The Washington Post reports: U.S. Capitol Police suspended an officer Monday after a copy of an infamous antisemitic tract was found near a Capitol Hill security post Sunday, alarming a congressional aide who viewed the document in plain sight at the checkpoint. Photographs provided to The Washington Post show a printed copy of the Protocols of the Meetings of the …

The Fresno Bee reports: The Fresno Police Department is investigating one of its own officers after he joined the Proud Boys on Sunday morning to counter protest the sale of the iconic Tower Theatre to a church. Officer Rick Fitzgerald was spotted in the YouTube footage posted by Eddie Block, a Madera man who is a former Proud Boy. Block’s …

NBC News reports: A large group of demonstrators gathered on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot in her apartment by police officers executing a no-knock search warrant. “All eyes are on Louisville today,” Bianca Austin, Taylor’s aunt, told the crowd. “And we are here to represent Breonna with dignity and …

The Louisville Courier Journal reports: The Senate passed a bill Thursday evening to enhance penalties for crimes related to rioting after more than an hour of heated debate, including criticism that it would criminalize insulting police officers and chill protected free speech. Sen. Danny Carroll [photo], a retired police officer, said his Senate Bill 211 would crack down on and …

NBC News reports: An internet-enabled art installation that launched Wednesday offers a strange proposition: the chance to pilot a $75,000 four-legged robot named Spot that is armed with a paintball gun. The robot may be familiar to people who have seen various viral videos of similar robots from Boston Dynamics that have offered a sometimes startling glimpse at leaps in …

Buffalo’s ABC News affiliate reports: Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old man seen being pushed to the ground during last June’s protests in Niagara Square, has filed a civil suit against the City of Buffalo, Mayor Byron Brown, Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood, Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia, and Officers Robert McCabe, Aaron Torgalski, and John Losi. Gugino’s attorneys, Richard P. Weisbeck Jr., …

The Daily Beast reports: A former North Miami Beach police officer has been charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of government business after live-streaming himself inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Nicholes Lentz, 41, told FBI agents that he traveled to the nation’s capital after seeing social media …

Lancaster’s NBC News affiliate reports: A police officer in Lebanon County is charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Joseph Fischer, with the North Cornwall Township Police Department, was arrested Friday by the FBI. He has been suspended without pay, according to a news release from the township. A criminal complaint alleges …

Washington DC’s Fox News affiliate reports: A spokesperson for the U.S. Capitol Police has confirmed to FOX 5 that the Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating the actions of 35 police officers on Jan. 6, the day of the riot at the Capitol, and suspended six officers with pay. “Our Office is investigating the actions of 35 police officers from …

The Oregonian reports: Roughly a dozen Portland police officers faced off with a small group at a Northeast Portland Fred Meyer on Tuesday after people tried to take food that had been thrown away. Workers at the Hollywood West Fred Meyer threw away thousands of perishable items because the store had lost power in an outage brought on by the …

The New York Post reports: The head of the NYPD’s sergeants union — who is facing up to a two-month discipline over social media posts that include calling the Big Apple’s former health commissioner a “bitch” and a lawmaker a “first class whore” — has defended his actions and says he refuses to apologize for them. In a Monday letter …

The Associated Press reports: The Senate briefly paused its trial Friday for senators to recognize Officer Eugene Goodman’s efforts at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack. Sen. Chuck Schumer asked for legislation to be introduced to honor the Capitol Police officer with the Congressional Gold Medal. The proposal drew a standing ovation from those present in the Senate Chamber. …