It is with great sadness that the Needham Police Department shares the passing of retired Sergeant Richard I. Grudinskas, age 78, who passed away on Monday, August 31.

Sergeant Grudinskas dedicated an extraordinary 43 years of service to the Needham Police Department, retiring at the rank of Sergeant.

At the age of 54, while still serving as a Needham Police Officer and working his shifts, he attended the Massachusetts School of Law, graduating at the top of his class and earning his Juris Doctor degree.

Rest Easy Brother. Prayers for his family of blue and blood.🙏🏻

Nevadans! Do you want gas prices like in California? No problem - vote Aaron Ford!🧐

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NEW: ICE San Francisco arrested criminal alien Itzel Anahi Medina-Nieto, 28, of Mexico, in Sacramento. Medina has a conviction for pimping a child under 16 for which she was sentenced to 3 years in prison, and a parole violation. She is in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings.

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The Minneapolis police chief testified under oath that officers were not trained to restrain suspects by placing a knee on their neck. But pages from Derek Chauvin’s training manual—later displayed by his mother—show that officers were in fact taught this technique.

Those pages were removed from the online manual after George Floyd’s death, so the public, and more importantly the jury, never saw them.

Another training slide shows the same knee placement and instructs officers to call an ambulance.

What most people don’t know is that officers requested one approximately 30 seconds after Floyd was placed on the ground.

If Chauvin was trained to use this restraint, why wasn’t the jury shown those pages of his training manual?

Paul Manicone

God, family, country. In that order.

Happy Labor Day!

Charlie Kirk

You may never know who that person is or what your presence meant to them. That's one of the strange and meaningful parts of this job.

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LAPD News:  There has been an Officer-Involved-Shooting in Hollenbeck Division near the 600 block of Gillette Street.  A PIO is enroute.  More information to follow.

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Three masked teens showed up at a Georgia home around 4 A.M. to rob the people outside. One opened fire. The homeowner FIRED BACK.

Investigators said the teens, ages 15 and 16, approached three people outside the home wearing masks. One pulled out a handg*n and fired at the residents before the homeowner returned fire.

All three suspected robbers were k*lled. This story is worth remembering - this is why we MUST protect our Second Amendment rights!

Deputies recovered two g*ns, and Sheriff Eric Levett said investigators were looking at the case under Georgia's stand-your-ground law. The homeowner was not charged at the time.

He did not choose when three masked, armed people showed up at his home in the middle of the night.

He DID have a choice about whether he would defend the people standing there with him.

Remember this one the next time someone tells you the right to defend your home and family doesn't matter.

⚠️Don’t become dinner. Leave Bears Alone.

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GOOD RIDDANCE: Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez is permanently banned from serving as a Texas judge after ordering a defense attorney HANDCUFFED during a courtroom dispute.

The Bexar County judge had attorney Elizabeth Russell put in cuffs during a disagreement over how one of Russell’s clients was handling a plea.

That decision eventually came back to bite her HARD.

Gonzalez was indicted on charges of unlawful restraint and official oppression and suspended from the bench.

Then in April, she signed an agreement resigning from office and becoming permanently disqualified from judicial service in Texas. She won't be missed.

Labor Day. Thank you to everyone working the shift so the rest of us don't have to.

The cops, the firefighters, the EMS crews. The farmworkers, the nurses, the truck drivers, the line cooks, the crews at the port. To everyone who doesn’t get the day off. LA runs on you. Thank you.

And to the tan and green: help is on the way. 🇺🇸

Alex Villanueva

NEW DETAILS: The Amazon cargo plane that overran a runway in Miami traveled roughly 1,300 feet beyond the paved surface, striking airport equipment, a van carrying seven people and a car, according to the NTSB.

The plane first hit navigational equipment before slamming into the contract cleaning company van.

The plane then tore through a perimeter fence, struck a Toyota, and continued into the grass before hitting another fence near an area where Tesla robotaxis were stationed.

Sheriff Chad Bianco made a point that stuck with me: most Californians who don't vote actually share our values. 

I'm tired of watching law enforcement fight an uphill battle against their own Attorney General. That changes when I take office.

Vote Michael Gates for Attorney General. #Gates4AG

Vote Michael E. Gates for California Attorney Gen.

⚠️Community and Traffic Advisory⚠️

Happy Labor Day‼️

Alameda and Aliso

A demonstration has formed and may impede traffic in North and South bound lanes of Alameda.  Please use caution in the area.

LAPD Central Division