Las Vegas, NV – Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP) Trooper Micah May died in the line of duty on Thursday due to injuries he suffered after being hit by a fleeing suspect two days prior.
The 46-year-old trooper was trying to deploy spike strips during a pursuit on Interstate 15 near Sahara Avenue on July 27 when the suspect, 60-year-old Douglas Claiborne, crashed into him, KVVU reported.
Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers President Rick McCann said Trooper May went through the armed carjacker’s windshield upon impact, according to KLAS.
Troopers were able to force the suspect vehicle to a stop near Sahara Avenue and swarmed the vehicle.
That’s when Claiborne allegedly reached for a gun and police opened fire on him.
The suspect was fatally shot during the mayhem.
Trooper May was airlifted to University Medical Center, where he remained until his death on Thursday, KVVU reported.
Violent crime is exploding. Cops leaving and arrests plummeting may set off a wave of dangerousness that impacts cities and counties far beyond urban areas.
The damage happening to cities due to violent crime far exceeds what happened during the Capitol Hill riot.
Let’s give cops the forum they deserve via Congressional testimony before more quit and violence increases.
All cops (especially big city officers) need an opportunity to tell the nation and world what’s happening and what needs to be done.
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In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, association spokeswoman Betsy Brantner Smith, a retired police sergeant who describes herself as a conservative, noted Congress should hear from the thousands of police officers who were injured during the George Floyd riots last year.
The National Police Association on Wednesday blasted the Congress investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as a politically motivated “dog and pony show” that has no intention of uncovering the truth of what really happened that day.
“People need to see that police officers go through horrible things, and Jan. 6 was a horrible thing for some of those officers,” she declared. “But, quite frankly, I find this whole Jan. 6 Commission, frankly, a dog and pony show. It doesn’t tell the whole story.”
“Myself, like millions of Americans, sat there watching the testimony thinking, ‘Wait, where are the police officers who appeared – appeared – to let some of the protesters in?” she asked. “Where is the police officer who shot
Ashli Babbitt? In fact, why aren’t we talking about Ashli Babbitt? I mean there’s so much more here.”
Brantner Smith’s comments came the day after four law enforcement officers who responded to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol gave testimony to a House select committee about their experience.
Violent crime is exploding. Cops leaving and arrests plummeting may set off a wave of dangerousness that impacts cities and counties far beyond urban areas.
The damage happening to cities due to violent crime far exceeds what happened during the Capitol Hill riot.
Let’s give cops the forum they deserve via Congressional testimony before more quit and violence increases.
All cops (especially big city officers) need an opportunity to tell the nation and world what’s happening and what needs to be done.
Violent crime is exploding. Cops leaving and arrests plummeting may set off a wave of dangerousness that impacts cities and counties far beyond urban areas.
The damage happening to cities due to violent crime far exceeds what happened during the Capitol Hill riot.
Let’s give cops the forum they deserve via Congressional testimony before more quit and violence increases.
All cops (especially big city officers) need an opportunity to tell the nation and world what’s happening and what needs to be done.
Detroit, MI – One Detroit police officer has been suspended and another is likely facing the same after a routine review of dashcam video revealed they fled a shooting scene rather than engaging the gunman (video below).
The incident occurred on June 30 near the intersection of Schoolcraft and Greenfield, WJBK reported.
Detroit Police Interim Chief James White told reporters at a press conference that supervisors were conducting a routine review of officers’ dashcam videos when they saw the unusual scene unfold.
The video showed a man on a sidewalk who took off running as a blue sedan rolled up on him.
Then, right in front of the police car parked across the street, a gunman leaned out the passenger-side rear window with a semiautomatic rifle and opened fire on the man who was running away.
Dashcam video showed the officer driving the police vehicle hit the gas and fled the scene, driving right by the suspect vehicle, instead of trying to intervene.
The officers did ultimately turn around and return to the scene to see if the man who was being shot at needed assistance, WJBK reported.
Neither the gunman nor the driver of the blue sedan have been identified or arrested.
“This incident is troubling and it is unfortunate and it’s not consistent with our training,” Chief White told reporters. “And it’s not consistent with the expectations that are set by myself and my command team.”
The city’s interim police chief said he had launched an investigation into the incident, WJBK reported.
“What I’m looking to understand is prior to leaving the scene and providing assistance, what did they think they were doing,” Chief White said. “I need to know a lot of things that I don’t want to discuss right now, but it has to do with, were they secure enough to take immediate action.”
The supervisor who discovered the dashcam video sent it up the chain of command and top brass took action immediately, WJBK reported.
The officer who was driving was suspended with pay while the investigation is conducted, WBJK reported.
Chief White said he was waiting for the other officer to return from medical leave so that the department could finish its internal investigation and make decisions about the officers’ future with the Detroit Police Department.
Other former high-level Detroit police officials told WJBK the officers’ actions were unacceptable.
Retired Detroit Assistant Police Chief Steve Dolunt said the officers should have engaged the gunman.
“Yes, you pull your gun,” Dolunt said. “He’s shooting at somebody. You pull your gun when you’re in fear of your life, or someone is in fear of their life.”
He said the officers hadn’t told supervisors what happened when it happened, WJBK reported.
“It appears they were hiding something at first because again, it came to light through a routine investigation of the cameras, and the supervisor says ‘Wait a minute,’” Dolunt said. “So it wasn’t reported to them right away.”
Former Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee said the video upset the community because it showed police running away from danger, WJBK reported.
“I think what is disconcerting for citizens is, and I don’t want to generalize, we see a lot of instances where unarmed individuals are given a hard time by the police,” Godbee said. “And police say they fear for their lives. This was an actual shooting in progress that the officers witnessed and they did not engage the threat.”
Chief White defended his department and said the actions of two officers don’t represent the members of his police force, WJBK reported.
“Individualized incidents do not represent the hard work of the over 2,000 men and women of this department that they do day in, and day out,” the chief said.
Watch the incident unfold in the video below. WARNING – Graphic Content:
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