A southwest Louisiana city has a new leader of its police department following the resignation of its former chief. Lafayette Parish Mayor-President Monique Boulet announced Tuesday that Capt. Paul Trouard will serve as the interim chief of the Lafayette Police Department during a national search to fill the permanent position, The Advocate reported. Trouard, 50, has spent his entire 27-year …
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The Louisiana judge presiding over a high-profile criminal case accusing Black men of raping a White LSU student dismissed a 1972 rape conviction a year after she released a different rape suspect on reduced bail. District Judge Gail Horne Ray’s decisions, coupled with her son’s serial rape conviction and her potential bias as a lifetime member of the NAACP, has …
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A residential community in Michigan is tearfully celebrating the end of a tumultuous squatter situation that invaded their neighborhood and daily lives for over three years. Residents of Dowagiac feared for their safety and their children’s safety when one of their neighbors allowed a man, his beat-up campers and all of his friends to assume her backyard dwellings for their …
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Several local law enforcement agencies in Colorado, including the Denver Police Department (DPD), are making plans to start dispatching drones instead of officers to respond to 911 calls. “This really is the future of law enforcement at some point, whether we like it or not,” Sgt. Jeremiah Gates, who leads the drone unit at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, told …
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Police in Ocean City, New Jersey are investigating a stabbing incident and another nearby beach town declared a state of emergency on Memorial Day weekend. Police responded to the boardwalk Saturday evening to find that a 15-year-old male had been stabbed by an unknown male suspect. The individual was transported to an area hospital and is expected to recover from …
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A Georgia man was arrested after admitting to burning a trailer down with his stepmother inside it because his mother refused to sell the lot, according to police. Two Rome police officers responded to a structure fire late Saturday night at 11 Addington Court after a caller said a woman was trapped inside a trailer on the property, FOX 5 …
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Deputies in Louisiana are searching for four inmates who escaped from jail Sunday night, according to officials. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards said four inmates escaped through the perimeter fence of the Tangipahoa Parish Jail during recreation time in the jail yard. They have been identified as Omarion Hookfin, 19, Avery Guidry, 19, Jamarcus Cyprian, 20, and Travon Johnson, 21. …
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Black Lives Matter co-founder Melina Abdullah lost a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday, with a jury finding that police acted appropriately in a call to her residence, the Los Angeles Times reported. Abdullah had sued the LAPD in 2020 after officers responded to her home in an alleged “swatting” incident. Swatting is the practice of calling …
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Officer Sean “Sticks” Larkin invites Fox Nation subscribers to lace up their boots for a day on patrol before swapping them for bike pedals on a poignant pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., paying tribute to the men and women in blue who made the ultimate sacrifice. “Hearing the words ‘officer down’ over the radio is everyone’s worst nightmare,” Larkin said, heading …
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A Texas state senator called out Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for failing to publicly acknowledge the two-year anniversary of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Friday was the two-year anniversary since the shooting at Robb Elementary School, where an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. The shooting was not mentioned in the governor’s social …
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