police Page 5 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
L.A. Police Chase Results In Live, Televised Gunfight
A man police say is suspected of kidnapping led Los Angeles officers on a chase through south L.A. before stepping out of his car and firing a handgun at cops—before taking a barrage of return fire and seeking cover. All four Los Angeles major network affiliates covered the battle live—despite polic...
Robert Swift Arrested For Armed Robbery: Report
Ex-Supersonic Robert Swift—who was charged two months ago with a gun crime—was arrested Tuesday about an hour away from Seattle for armed robbery, reports KIRO. According to KIRO's report, Swift and his accomplice are not criminal masterminds:...
Bets And Bullets: A Small-Time Gambler's Death By SWAT
It's been nine years since police in Fairfax County, Va., turned small-time bettor Sal Culosi into a bookie and then killed him, but Culosi's death has been forcibly dragged back into the news, and so has all the unaccountable power-drunkenness that led to it. His killers, we've been reminded, struc...
Cleveland Cops Demand Apology, Call Activist Browns Players "Pathetic"
Browns receiver Andrew Hawkins wore a shirt demanding justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford before today's game against the Bengals, and the act so infuriated Cleveland cops that the city's police union president is now demanding the team apologize—calling Hawkins's statement (and one previously ...
Santa Clara Police Attack Fan At Pac-12 Championship Game
Here is a good example of how to not to police people, as seen at Friday's Pac-12 championship game. According to the video uploader, this confrontation started when the man in white walked down the wrong pathway. The situation then quickly escalated, for no clear reason. A lieutenant from the Santa...
Arizona Police Postpone "Run From The Cops" Charity Race
The Tempe Police Department is postponing its "Run From The Cops 5K" charity race scheduled for Saturday, because, well, that's kinda obvious, right?...
The American Justice System Is Not Broken
In July, New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo choked unarmed black man Eric Garner to death, in broad daylight, while a bystander caught it on video. That is what American police do. Yesterday, despite the video, despite an NYPD prohibition of exactly the sort of chokehold Pantaleo used, and de...
Police Raid Discovers Drugs, Hookers, Ex-Sonics Center Robert Swift
When we last checked in on former NBA center Robert Swift, in 2013, he'd left his foreclosed Washington home in a total mess. Kirkland and Redmond police raided a home on Oct. 4, and you'll never guess who they found....
A Good Police Guy
An NYPD cop would have cracked this fool's head open....
How To Fix The Police: A Former Chief Is Here To Take Your Questions
Norm Stamper is a retired Seattle police chief, columnist, advisory board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and the author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing. He is in the comments below and ready to take your questions about Ferguson, militarizat...
Cop Pointing Rifle At Ferguson Protestors: "I Will Fucking Kill You" [UPDATE]
This is remarkably bad copping. ...
Police: Drunk 13-Year-Old Drove Around Car Full Of Kids
A 13-year-old driving a car full of kids around Wisconsin is strange and cheeky, but a drunk 13-year-old?...
America Is Not For Black People
The United States of America is not for black people. We know this, and then we put it out of our minds, and then something happens to remind us. Saturday, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., something like that happened: An unarmed 18-year-old black man was executed by police in broad dayli...
Cop Gets Pushy With Rockies Bro; Rockies Bro Becomes American Hero
The temptation is to say there are no winners here, what with the cop getting needlessly pushy and the bro trying to summon James Madison from his grave with his slurring bluster about injustice. But you know what? Fuck this. We're on Team Bro here....
LeBron's Team Requested Extra Police At His Home For Announcement
Remember all the way back to yesterday, when police cars were spotted outside LeBron James's home, leading to all sorts of frenzied speculation? As it turns, the presence of those officers actually wasn't a coincidence—his team requested extra off-duty officers for the Bath, Ohio spread specifically...
Golf Cart Driver Arrested At U.S. Open For Driving Into Officer's Leg
Tommy Lineberry, a golf cart driver for NBC Sports analyst Roger Maltbie, was arrested at the U.S. Open Saturday for hitting a North Carolina state trooper's leg with his cart....
Truck Driver On Run From Police Drives Into Circle K, Somehow Escapes
Here is a man in California (natch) who is accused of trying to run over an Ontario police officer with his dump truck. They haven't managed to catch him yet, even though he drove into a gas station—and then out of that gas station through the same entrance....
Police Close Boston Marathon Finish Line, Detonate Unattended Backpacks
Police evacuated the Boston Marathon finish line earlier tonight after they discovered two unattended backpacks at the site of last year's bombings. Both bags were detonated by a bomb squad. One of the bags contained a rice cooker filled with confetti; the other contained photo equipment....
FDNY/NYPD Charity Hockey Game Features Bench-Clearing Brawl
Today's annual charity hockey game between the FDNY and NYPD devolved into a full-out brawl at Nassau Coliseum with the score tied at three. Cops and firefighters were beating the crap out of each other....