Hero Down: Baltimore PD Officer Keona Holley Succumbs To Wounds From Ambush Attack
Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Police Department Officer Keona Holley died on Thursday night, one week after she was ambushed and shot twice in the back of the head as she sat on duty in a patrol car in Curtis Bay.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said that the 39-year-old Officer Holley had volunteered to work overtime on Dec. 16 and was sitting in a crime-plagued neighborhood in the middle of the night when she was ambushed from behind by the gunman, WBAL reported.
Police said that Officer Holley hit the gas on her police vehicle after she was shot and crashed into the fence of Curtis Bay Park.
Minneapolis, MN – A Hennepin County jury on Thursday found former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
Potter, 48, fatally shot Wright with her duty weapon on April 11 while trying to arrest him on a warrant when she mistook her gun for her Taser.
The judge immediately ordered Potter taken into custody.
Defense attorneys asked the judge to reconsider that decision and release Potter until sentencing because “she’s not going anywhere and she’s not going to commit a crime.”
The state strenuously objected to Potter’s release.
The judge ultimately upheld her ruling and ordered the former police officer taken into custody direct from the courtroom and held without bail.
Potter’s sentencing was scheduled for Feb. 18.
The 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Park police department could be sentenced to a maximum of 25 years in prison.
The jury, made up of six men and six women, deliberated for more than 26 hours before rendering its verdict.
The Jury was hung and decided on this to get out before the holidays. She will appeal and hopefully this travesty will be reversed. Those jurors are a disgrace!
Two Democrats who support police reforms are both CARJACKED just hours apart: Rep. Mary Scanlon is robbed at gunpoint in Philadelphia and Illinois Senator Kimberly Lightford and her husband are carjacked in Chicago
Democratic Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, 62, was robbed at gunpoint in Philadelphia’s FDR Park on Wednesday afternoon 16 hours after Illinois State Senator Kimberly Lightford, 53, and her husband, Eric McKennie, were also carjacked on Tuesday night in a suburb 20 minutes outside of Chicago. Both women supported police reform policies last year following the Black Lives Matter movement, with both co-sponsoring a bill in their respective offices to allow mental health specialists to be dispatched as first responders instead of police officers. Lightford, the Illinois Black Caucus chairwoman, had also previously supported cutting police budgets in the state, with Chicago proposing to slash $59 million from their police department’s budget.
BLUE PRAYER REQUEST: A Burton police officer and a Genesee County sheriff’s deputy are both in critical condition after a suspect opened fire on them during a foot chase on Tuesday afternoon.The incident occurred shortly before 3 p.m. on Dec. 21 in the area of Saginaw Street and Bristol Road on Burton’s west side, WJRT reported.
Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said the Burton police officer and the Genesee County sheriff’s deputy responded to a call about shots fired. Leyton said that when the officer and deputy arrived on the scene, they spotted a man matching the description of the suspect and chased him on foot, WJRT reported.The suspect tried to climb a fence as he was fleeing but it collapsed, according to the prosecutor.The officer and the deputy were trying to pull the fence off of the suspect when he opened fire on them, shooting each of them multiple times, WJRT reported.Leyton said both law enforcement officers returned fire and shot the suspect multiple times
“Um! What I miss in the last six weeks,” Kotlewski asked.
Despite being in a wheelchair, Kotlewski is in high spirits as he returns to his in-law’s home in Roselle.
“It was that emotional to see 80 to 100 police officers come out, from firefighters to paramedics, the garbage truck, everybody was here,” said Bensenville Village President Frank Desimone. “You saw the streets, it was a band playing!”
It came after a procession took him from a Wheaton rehabilitation hospital on Saturday, where he spent 42 days working to get his movement back after being shot nine times.
“I kind of got shot the best nine possible ways a person can get shot,’ Kotlewski said. “Most of my injuries are just orthopedic. Just bones, man. With the exception of a few nerves, I mean, they say I’ll be running again so it’s not much to be sad about, right?”
It happened early last month when Kotlewski was responding to a home for a domestic disturbance.
When he arrived, police said 21-year-old Kiante Tyler shot the officer multiple times.
Tyler was arrested as Kotlewski’s family said they were counting their blessings at the same time.
“I thought my son was going to pass. When I walked in that room and I seen him, I thought he was gone,’ Officer Kotlewski’s father, Arthur, said. “I’m grateful to God that he’s back. I know God had something to do with it.”
Thankful to be alive and back home, the father of three said he’s looking ahead to spending much-needed time with his family.
“If you get to roll the dice on nine bullets,” Kotlewski starts to say as his wife helps wipe his nose “Hey, what? Knock it off! I’m on the news right now!”
Protests Reduce Police Killings, New Research Shows– BigTech Yahoo Fake News- Yeah, you know why you morons? Because the cops quit and the ones who stay put blinders on and hide. Meanwhile MURDER and VIOLENCE go up, but that topic doesn’t fit you agenda to warrant a discussion.
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