Police News
Is This Some Kind of Payback?
Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show A Christian minister who has had heated arguments with Muslims on his TV Gospel show has been brutally attacked by three men who ripped off his cross and warned: ‘If you go back to the studio, we’ll break your legs.’The Reverend Noble Samuel was driving to the studio when a car pulled over in front of him. A man got out and came over to ask him directions in Urdu.Mr Samuel, based at Heston United Reformed Church, West London, said: ‘He put his hand into my window, which was half open, and grabbed my hair and opened the door.He started slapping …Read more […..]
Religious Discrimination?
Can this type of thing be common in the USA?Officer ‘Bullied Because Of Beliefs’ 09-Mar-09 Claiming religious discrimination and unfair dismissal, the ex PC is taking Bedfordshire Police to an employment tribunal… A Muslim officer claims he was bullied out of his job by colleagues who made fun of his beard and called him a “f***ing Paki”. PC Javid Iqbal, 38, said white officers openly talked in front of him about how they were “better” than their ethnic-minority colleagues. The married father-of-two also claims officers pulled faces at each other if told they had to go out on patrol with him and forced him to walk home from …Read more […..]
FBI Director Mueller: A Mumbai-style attack can happen in the U.S.
How many cities around the world could fall prey to a Mumbai-style attack? How many cities here in the United States? Could a similar attack happen in Seattle or San Diego, Miami or Manhattan? These were the questions posed by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III in an address before the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. last week. Muller said that the terrorist attacks that killed more than 170 and wounded more than 300 others in Mumbai three months ago “reminds us that terrorists with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons to maximize their impact†and that “the simplest …Read more […..]
Steger grandpa duct-taped, bound to recliner
BY KIM JANSSEN Staff writer Except for the barking dog, nobody was home at Joseph Basile’s dirty-white, single-story home in the 3500 block of John Street in Steger on Wednesday afternoon. Basile was dead, and his dog’s leash was in police custody, at the center of a nightmarish homicide probe. Steger police say members of 90-year-old Basile’s family bound him in duct tape, then lashed him to a recliner with the leash. Officers rescued the grandfather Saturday evening after neighbors discovered him tied up, with bruises and bed sores, and dialed 911. But after three nights at St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights, Basile, a …Read more […..]
NUMBER OF FEMALE OFFICERS KILLED IN 2008
This article was published in the February 2009 issue of AMERICAN POLICE BEAT, a national law enforcement publication. It may be reprinted in whole, or part, in your publication, but it must include the following attribution: “Reprinted with permission of the author and AMERICAN POLICE BEAT.”RECORD HIGH NUMBER OF FEMALE OFFICERS KILLED IN 2008by Craig W. FloydFebruary 2009A convenience store camera had caught the entire incident on videotape-every horror-filled moment. Nicola Cotton, a 24-year-old New Orleans police officer, had been brutally murdered while attempting to arrest a rape suspect. Officer Nicola Cotton It was a …Read more […..]
Motel ambush wounds 2 Ind. officers; suspects flee
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. – An ambush at a southern Indiana motel seriously wounded two police officers and set off a multistate manhunt for the two shooting suspects.The Jeffersonville officers were approaching a room in the motel off Interstate 65 Thursday evening to investigate suspicious activity, when the suspects started shooting, said Indiana State Police Sgt. Jerry Goodin. At least one officer returned fire, but it was unclear whether he hit anyone.Cpl. Dan Lawhorn and Patrolman Keith Broady were able to get back to their vehicles and report the shooting, said Jeffersonville Detective Todd. Both underwent surgery …Read more […..]
16 Illegal Immigrants Suing Arizona Rancher
Roger Barnett has had his house broken into, trucks stolen, cattle killed and property damaged by illegal immigrants crossing the border via his 22,000-acre Arizona ranch and in 1998, he decided enough was enough.So he began rounding them up at gunpoint and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol. Barnett claims to have captured around 12,000 illegal immigrants attempting to cross his property – a spot along the border that authorities have deemed “an avenue of choice” – into the United States since then.Astonishingly, 16 of those illegally immigrants are now suing Barnett for $32 million in punitive damages for civil rights …Read more […..]