Category: North America

As the nation reels from the sniper attack in Dallas that killed five police officers and wounded seven others and two civilians, Dallas Police Chief David Brown vowed Friday that the senseless violence wouldn’t change the city’s community relations efforts. “We won’t militarize our policing standards, but we will do it in a much safer […]

Using a robot to clear a hazard, from a Combat Engineer perspective, makes perfect sense. Why endanger further innocent lives for the sake of a bad guy?

The Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest group of sworn law-enforcement officers, is asking the Justice Department to “immediately” investigate the killing of five Dallas police officers as a hate crime. “The U.S. Department of Justice is always quick to insert itself into local investigations,” group President Chuck Canterbury said Friday. “Today we expect […]

Investigators believe the Dallas gunman who shot 14 people, including five murdered police officers, originally planned a much larger attack. Dallas’ WFAA-TV, citing a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation, reported that authorities think Micah Johnson changed his attack plan so the shootings would coincide with Thursday’s protest against police brutality. “We think […]

Dallas police officers and SWAT units combed a parking garage adjacent to the department’s downtown headquarters Saturday after a suspicious person was seen on the garage’s second floor. Authorities confirmed to Fox News that the person was spotted in an area of the garage reserved for police officers and employees and ran away when confronted. […]

“President Calderón doesn’t listen,” many said, even within his party.

His apparent deafness of the problem, however, had a very high cost for Mexicans, who to this day, continue to pay, even with their own blood.

Abdulkader’s plans included abducting a military employee at home and filming the employee’s execution. After executing the employee, he would attack a police station in the Southern District of Ohio using a firearm and Molotov cocktails.

SOFREP recently received new information from two separate law enforcement sources, close to the Dallas shooting, that said the shooter allegedly used a Saiga AK-74.

Few people understand loss better than David Brown, the Dallas police chief who stood before television cameras Friday morning and said, “We are heartbroken.” Even before five police officers were killed Thursday at the site of a Black Lives Matter protest where seven other people were wounded, Brown had become all-too familiar with grief, pummeled […]

The killing of five Dallas police officers and wounding of seven more late Thursday brought out the worst of people on the crackpot corners of the Internet. While President Obama, civil rights leaders and members of Congress joined law enforcement officials in condemning the monstrous sniper attack by a former Army reservist named Micah Johnson, […]

Protestors across the U.S. continued Friday night, as people decried police brutality over the killing of two African-American men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, earlier this week. Friday’s protests came a day after a 25-year-old Army veteran went on a shooting rampage killing five police officers in downtown Dallas late Thursday. After four days of […]

A suburban St. Louis police officer was in critical condition late Friday after he was shot in the neck in what investigators described as an “ambush” following a traffic stop. Ballwin Police Chief Kevin Scott said the unidentified officer was walking to his car after the initial conversation with the motorist he stopped for speeding Friday […]