Mike Williams’ 04.06.07 local cop news

April 06, 2007 03:01 AM

Oregon: SERT rescues woman, deploys gas, to end standoff near S.E. 52nd.

Indiana: SWAT team is ready. But members are called out only when sheriff’s officers determine they’re needed.

Florida: SWAT team uses Spring Break to train for campus crises at Weston school.

Georgia: SWAT team breaks in to end standoff.

Florida: Cops Taser naked sex offender.

Canada: A sword-brandishing man shouting at police to shoot him was subdued by Taser Friday.

Wisconsin: The death of a 29-year-old man last year after police shocked him with a stun gun six times was the result of his struggle with officers and their use of the electronic control device, the Waukesha County medical examiner says.

Ohio: Coroner releases more details on police shooting.

Texas: Family calls Dallas police shooting ‘murder’.

Florida: Authorities searched today for what they now believe may be four suspects involved in an attempted burglary that led to the exchange of gunfire with an off-duty officer Wednesday afternoon, according to Manatee County Sheriff’s spokesman Dave Bristow.

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