attacks on law enforcement

The Los Angeles Police Department went on tactical alert late last night after two patrol officers in a squad car reportedly were targeted by rifle fire. Neither officer was hit, and returned fire. In a separate incident earlier on Sunday, Pasco County deputies in Florida reportedly also were shot at — this as they sat […]

At 2:47 p.m. Saturday, New York Police Department officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were very much alive. They were seated in their cruiser in Brooklyn. It was parked curbside. No one knows what they were talking about or thinking about. They expected to return to their loved ones after work, though. Liu, 32, was […]

BULLETIN: A Leon County sheriff’s deputy has been shot and killed in what authorities are calling an “ambush.” Early reports suggest the following circumstances: A house in northwest Tallahassee, the state capital, was set ablaze. The deputy was a first-responder and was shot and killed at the scene of the fire by the person who […]

2nd Update 11:35 p.m. to note that Frein has been added to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitive List. Normalcy has not returned to Monroe County in the Pocono Mountains region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Two troopers allegedly were ambushed outside their barracks in a nighttime, shift-change attack at the Blooming Grove station in nearby Pike […]

Multiple media outlets are reporting that two Los Angeles police officers were ambushed by a gunman early this morning outside the Wilshire Division police station. Early reports suggest the officers were injured — but not seriously. A manhunt is under way for their alleged assailant. See KTLA coverage.

State-run media in China are reporting that 12 members of law enforcement were injured in a clash with pyramid schemers. The Xinhua news agency says that a pyramid-inspired uprising began in China’s Anhui Province and that 34 members of the scheme were detained for assault and five were arrested. From the news agency (italics added): […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: In yet another disturbing attack against the law-enforcement community, the sheriff of West Virginia’s Mingo County has been shot and killed near the Mingo County Courthouse, multiple media outlets are reporting. A suspect is in custody in the shooting death of newly elected Sheriff Eugene Crum, the Charleston Daily Mail […]

BULLETIN: Multiple media outlets are reporting that a judge was stabbed and a sheriff’s detective shot with her own weapon at the Grays Harbor County Courthouse in Montesano, Wash. The alleged assailant reportedly is on the loose, possibly with the detective’s handgun. A massive manhunt reportedly is under way. Early reports suggest the victims survived. […]

A Texas man who pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to kill a deputy U.S. Marshal with a razor blade later assaulted a federal prosecutor, authorities said. In May 2009, Jose Garcia Jr. was being led into a federal courtroom in McAllen to face allegations that he had violated the conditions of his probation. As […]