attacks on police

Gavin Eugene Long, the alleged mass murderer of police officers in Baton Rouge yesterday, was a “sovereign citizen” and “MOOR,” according to a bizarre filing in his name last year with the recorder of deeds in Jackson County, Mo. The news of the filing appeared in the Kansas City Star. Here is a copy of […]

Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett has miraculously survived a late-night ambush in which a man who allegedly claimed allegiance to ISIS fired at least 11 shots at him and reached inside the patrol car to fire. The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security immediately became involved in the probe, Police Commissioner Richard Ross […]

This is Tyler Scott Testerman, a 21-year-old man suspected of shooting an Aberdeen (Md.) police officer in the face early today. A manhunt ensued, and police announced the capture of Testerman minutes ago. The shooting of the officer in a wooded area led to the closure of Aberdeen schools today, police said. wbaltv.com has identified the […]

DEVELOPING STORY: (2nd Update 1:22 p.m. EDT U.S.A.) An attack on Dallas police involving gunfire and bombs occurred early today at about 12:27 a.m. local time. The attack occurred outside Jack Evans Police Headquarters. The occupied building, which was hit by gunfire, is named after a former Dallas mayor and businessman. A police car outside […]

At 5 a.m. yesterday — two hours before he died in the Boston neighborhood of Roslindale — Usaamah Abdullah Rahim called David Wright of the Boston-area community of Everett, according to an FBI affidavit from a member of Boston’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. Wright, 25, also is known as Dawud Sharif Wright and Dawud Sharif […]

Multiple media accounts coming out of North Central Florida say the Marion County Sheriff’s Office learned of a plot to attack the Eustis Police Department today with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The alleged plot apparently was foiled over the weekend. A news conference reportedly will be held at 2:30 p.m. EDT today. The Orlando Sentinel […]

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: (6th Update 9:51 a.m. ET U.S.A.) A gunman who reportedly targeted the headquarters of the Austin Police Department and other government buildings in an overnight attack in Texas has been shot dead. Austin Assistant Chief Raul Munguia has told reporters that the suspect appears to have used a vehicle that contained an improvised explosive […]

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 […]

An ax-wielding man attacked a police officer driving a marked car at 3 a.m. today in an ambush, the Washington Metropolitan Police Department is reporting via Twitter and Facebook under the signature of Chief Cathy L. Lanier. The officer was not injured by the ax, but was injured in the “attempted apprehension,” the department said. […]