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No Charges For Metropolitan Police Officers Involved In Fatal DC Shooting: Prosecutors No Charges For Metropolitan Police Officers Involved In Fatal DC Shooting: Prosecutors
No Charges For Metropolitan Police Officers Involved In Fatal DC Shooting: Prosecutors There will be no charges for a pair of officers from the Metropolitan Police Department for their role in a fatal shooting last year involving a 33-year-old District resident, according to federal investigators. The US Attorney's Office announced that there is insufficient evidence to pursue criminal or civil rights charges for their roles in an officer-involved shooting in Southeast DC in October 2023 that left Arthur Porter dead. According to prosecutors, at around 5 p.m. on Oct. 19 last year, the officers were called to the 2800 block of Gainesville Street SE, where there were reports of…

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by Zak Failla
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Police ID Woman Killed In Officer Involved Virginia Hotel Incident Police ID Woman Killed In Officer Involved Virginia Hotel Incident
Police ID Woman Killed In Officer Involved Virginia Hotel Incident Police have identified the woman who was killed in a police-involved shooting over the weekend at a Virginia hotel. Melissa R. Tompkins, 40, of no fixed addressed, was fatally shot by police after hitting an officer in the head with his baton on Sunday night, Dec. 17, Virginia State Police said. Stratsburg police responded to a 9-1-1 call for an erratic person damaging property at a hotel on Signal Knob Drive around 11 p.m., police said. Tompkins was found in a back parking lot of the hotel, where an altercation ensued as the woman attacked the officer and took his baton, state police…

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by Cecilia Levine
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NJ Officers Justified In Shooting PA Man Who Rushed Them With Broken Bottle, Grand Jury Finds NJ Officers Justified In Shooting PA Man Who Rushed Them With Broken Bottle, Grand Jury Finds
NJ Officers Justified In Shooting PA Man Who Rushed Them With Broken Bottle, Grand Jury Finds UPDATE: Police in South Jersey had no choice but to shoot a Pennsylvania man who rushed at them with a broken bottle, a grand jury has found. Grand jurors had crystal-clear bodycam video of officers alternately imploring and commanding Amir Johnson, 30, to drop the bottle during a late-afternoon standoff in the middle of an Atlantic County highway in August 2020. “We don't wanna do this, man. Stop! Stop!" a Ventnor police officer shouts over and over in the video. “Put it down, bro, we don’t wanna do this,” another officer yells. Johnson, of Wilkes-Barre, keeps coming, however, and is onl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Juvenile, Adult Arrested For Shooting At Police Officer In Anne Arundel County: Police Juvenile, Adult Arrested For Shooting At Police Officer In Anne Arundel County: Police
Juvenile, Adult Arrested For Shooting At Police Officer In Anne Arundel County: Police A juvenile and adult suspect have been arrested in connection with a police-involved shooting in Anne Arundel County, authorities said.  The teenager, along with 18-year-old Brian Bautista, were approached by a Special Police Officer at an MPD-owned impound lot in Anne Arundel County on Tuesday, May 17, Metropolitan Police said. The SPO questioned the suspects, who then fired shots at the officer, according to MPD. The officer then returned fire. No injuries were reported, MPD said. Bautista and the juvenile were charged accordingly. The investigation is ongoing. 

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by David Cifarelli