Mike Williams’ 06.08.06 local cop news

June 08, 2006 08:07 AM

Los Angeles: Wounded LA officer will likely be paralyzed.

Officers Rally around Hospitalized Colleague. Police Release Videotape of Suspect in Officer’s Shooting.

Florida: A Tampa police officer broke his right ankle this afternoon when he fell while rappelling from a helicopter during a training exercise, police said.

Texas: An off-duty Tarrant County sheriff’s deputy was shot twice by an unknown assailant as he sat outside of a grocery store in full uniform talking on his cell phone officials said.

New Jersey: A 42-year-old man who threatened his landlord with a machete and then barricaded himself in his apartment was arrested Tuesday after the city’s SWAT team burst through his front door, police said. =

Arizona: Man who died in custody swallowed bag of cocaine.

Massachusetts: East Brookfield officer suspected of assault shoots self.

UK: Report into London bombings highlights flawed emergency planning.

Washington: Two Seattle police cars responding to a King County deputy’s call for help collided with each other Tuesday morning at Boren and Madison in Downtown Seattle.

Oregon: Multnomah County jail officials are investigating how a male inmate managed to fashion a homemade dummy in his bunk and sneak into a woman’s cell to have sex undetected by the on-duty deputy last month.

DC: Cover blown, but air marshal still flies.

Michigan: Michigan lawsuit against Taser dismissed.

North Carolina: A Cabarrus County sheriff’s deputy accidentally used his Taser on a captain from the Harrisburg Fire Department, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Pennsylvania: Wild standoff ends with Taser blasts.

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