Off-duty NYPD officer shoots attempted carjacker, police say

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Police work is currently in a “great state of confusion,” Ted Williams, a former Washington D.C., police detective, warned on “America’s News HQ” on Sunday amid a surge in violent crime in major cities across the country. In New York City, for example, shootings have nearly doubled -- from 698 last year to 1,359 this year as of Nov.

A Los Angeles police probe got underway Saturday night after an investigator with the L.A. County district attorney’s office -- who was working security for DA Jackie Lacey -- fired at suspects who allegedly tried to carjack the security team.

One person was killed and four others were injured in Nevada, where police say an unhinged couple went on a random drive-by shooting spree throughout the city early Thanksgiving Day, authorities said. Henderson police and fire departments began receiving "several" calls shortly after 12:30 a.m.Thursday from different people -- from various parts of the city -- who reported shots being fired at them, according to a press release later that day.

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman called Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak “a dictator” after the Democratic governor issued a three-week “state-wide pause” to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.  “He’s been a dictator with whom we have complied every step of the way,” Goodman, formerly a Democrat and now an independent told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Guy Lodge Film CriticWhen his students express their weariness of constant lockdown drills, a sympathetic New York City math teacher offers them some cold comfort. Statistically, he says, they’re likelier to be hit by a car than they are to die in a school shooting.

It’s a Thanksgiving to remember. The two NYPD officers who were shot while responding to a domestic dispute in Queens were released from the hospital Thursday — just in time to spend the holiday with their loved ones.

Nevada is ready to hear the Trump campaign's case regarding illegal balloting allegations in Clark County, American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp told “Hannity” Tuesday night. Schlapp detailed that a state court is allowing 15 witnesses to present their evidence on Dec.

To improve relations with communities and police, NYPD leaders and Black activists joined together in New York City to hand out turkeys for Thanksgiving to a community in Brooklyn on Monday according to reports. Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, was there after making peace with cops after the death of her son.

The New York City police department will be bolstering enforcement in subways citywide amid a troubling pattern of instances in which straphangers have been pushed onto the tracks as the Big Apple also works to combat a spurt of shootings and other violence, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.

These probably weren’t the busts they’d expected. An underground swingers sex party was broken up overnight in Queens for violating pandemic gathering restrictions, the New York City Sheriff’s Office announced.

Nevada is facing new restrictions in an effort to help control the increasing spread of COVID-19. "As of today, 13 of 17 of our counties are flagged for elevated risk of transmission.

From subway attacks to shootings, violent crime is surging in New York City -- a startling reversal after years of record declines.  On Thursday, a 40-year-old woman was shoved onto the subway tracks in Manhattan's Union Square station just before a train pulled in. She fell between the rails and a row bed, police said, escaping with minor injuries.

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A maskless man at a New York City IHOP restaurant is accused of slashing a worker after employees asked him to cover his face to meet coronavirus guidelines, police said Wednesday. In surveillance video of the incident shared by NYPD Crimestoppers, the man appears to be arguing, then pulls a table out of the way and rushes them.

NEW YORK -- Prosecutors say the man accused of punching actor Rick Moranis is a suspect in multiple other unprovoked attacks on people in New York City.At a Manhattan Criminal Court hearing on Sunday, prosecutors said Marquis Ventura, 35, is charged in five assaults on strangers that took place in the last six months, the New York Post reported.Ventura allegedly attacked the owner of a liquor store in Soho hours after he punched Moranis in the face on Oct.

A good Samaritan used his martial arts training and jiu-jitsu in coming to the resuce of a mother who was struggling to stop a stranger from snatching her baby in a New York City park. Cellphone video shows Brian Kemsley pinning the man to the ground during the incident in Manhattan's Madison Square Park seven days ago.

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook Nevadans awake Friday morning. According to the U.S.