Category: police

Back-to-Back Motorcycle Fatalities Result from Speeding

Police say two speeding motorcyclists died April 17 in unrelated accidents. One crash happened in Fullerton when Francisco Sandoval, 32, of La Mirada crashed his 2006 Suzuki motorcycle into a wall at the intersection of Euclid Street and Rosecrans Avenue. Responding officers found Sandoval with life-threating injuries, and he was later pronounced dead at the scene. Earlier that…


‘You Can’t Stop the Revolution!’ But One State Is Making Plans

Commentary The season for potentially violent street protests is upon us, sparked by the latest police shooting of a black man in a suburb of Minneapolis. Officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, pulled over a car because it had an expired registration tag. They discovered the driver, Daunte Wright, 20, also had an outstanding warrant, reportedly…


Huntington Beach Takes New Collaborative Approach to Homelessness

Huntington Beach is expanding its strategy to help the homeless by creating new partnerships with local nonprofits and the police department’s Homeless Task Force. “It’s a true partnership with everybody in the community. Everybody’s got a stake in the game,” Lt. David Dereszynski, executive officer of the Homeless Task Force, told The Epoch Times. The…


Many Ontario Police Forces Won’t Use New COVID Powers To Conduct Random Stops

TORONTO—Many police forces in Ontario say they will not be stopping motorists or people at random to enforce new COVID-19 rules. Instead, they say, they plan to act on complaints or obvious violations. Criticism of Premier Doug Ford’s new powers for police has been widespread and furious. The powers allow officers to stop anyone and…


LIVE: Indianapolis Police Hold News Conference on Mass Shooting


Bodycam Video Shows Police Shootout With Armed Man Inside Ohio Hospital

The police department in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday released body camera footage after a 27-year-old man was shot and killed during a shootout inside a hospital on Tuesday. According to a news release from the department, shows Columbus and Westerville officers attempting to search Miles Jackson in a hospital room at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital…


Texas State Senate Passes Bill Requiring Voter Approval of Police Budget Cuts

The Texas Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would block local governments from reducing their law enforcement budgets without voter approval, in the Republican-led state legislature’s latest pushback against calls to “defund the police.” Senate Bill 23, which passed the state Senate in a bipartisan 28-2 vote, requires a local election before any city…


Man Faces Murder Charge Following Fatal DUI Crash in Newport Beach

A 28-year-old man with three previous driving under the influence convictions is facing a life sentence in jail after allegedly striking and killing a 74-year-old man with his car. The victim, Richard Frost, was fatally wounded about 4 p.m. April 10, after his car was struck by a Chevy Malibu on Newport Boulevard, the Orange County…


Officer Who Shot Daunte Wright to Be Charged With Second-Degree Manslaughter

The now-former police officer who fatally shot a 20-year-old man in Minnesota on Sunday will face a second-degree manslaughter charge. Kimberly Potter was arrested at approximately 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and will be booked into the Hennepin County Jail on a 2nd-degree manslaughter charge, according to the the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). The Washington County…


Former Officer Who Shot Daunte Wright Charged With Second-Degree Manslaughter

The now-former police officer who fatally shot a 20-year-old man in Minnesota on Sunday was charged on April 14 with second-degree manslaughter. Kimberly Potter, 48, was charged by Washington County Attorney Peter Orput. Potter was arrested at approximately 11:30 a.m. by Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) and later booked into the Hennepin County Jail, where she will await…