NENA announced today that it has cancelled its in-person 2020 Annual Conference & Expo and is replacing it with an online event due to public-health and safety concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic. The face-to-face event was originally scheduled to be held in June in Long Beach, California, before being postponed to September. However, given the still-uncertain trajectory of the pandemic, and considering that conference participants would be coming from all over the country and around the world, NENA concluded that cancelling the in-person meeting was the only safe and responsible action.
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Tampa police release video of officers being 'Ambushed' while responding to call. This is what happens when you embolden the Mob when every inaction with Police becomes a racial issue. When the media and Politicians paint all law enforcement agencies with a broad brush. Police Officers will die and have already died. I am surprised that this Chief stood up for his Officer the vast majority have been kissing up to the perpetrators with false narratives of Police Brutality and Systemic Racism. It's about time someone in authority stood up for Cops. There's a video of a Black Police Officer that was assaulted by a group of people when he was trying to subdue a subject that resisting arrest. Maybe it's time to sue these media jerks and the stupid Politicians who have created this environment.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! A Harlem man escaped a stabbing Tuesday with minor injuries — including one caused by the massive kitchen knife left sticking upright out of his scalp, authorities said. Viral Instagram video of the gory aftermath shows the unidentified man appearing to talk calmly with horrified onlookers and walking toward an FDNY ambulance — seemingly unaware of his blood-drenched undershirt and the kitchen knife protruding from the top of his head. Despite the slasher flick-worthy nature of the injury, cops said that the victim — identified only as a 36-year-old Harlem resident — escaped serious harm because the blade didn’t penetrate his skull. He was listed in stable condition at Harlem Hospital. Multiple witnesses characterized the events preceding the stabbing as an apparent domestic squabble in which the man allegedly roughed up a female companion who responded by plunging the knife into his head.

Armed protesters stood guard at an Atlanta-area Wendy's, the site where Rayshard Brooks, a black man shot twice in the back by an Atlanta police officer, died earlier this month. Earlier in the day, a group of people had "taken over" the burned-out property in South Atlanta, according to local reports. People living in the area also have complained that the protesters who remained were no longer peaceful, but instead were using the space for their own gain and at times blocking people on the street from getting by.

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Warning: Strong language! Overnight, deputies responded to a report of a Volusia County ambulance that was stolen from AdventHealth Daytona Beach. With Central Communications able to track the ambulance and give updates on its location, Deputy Cowger spotted it traveling at a high speed on S.R. 11 in Bunnell, where he conducted a traffic stop and took the driver into custody.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! On Tuesday, June 23, Pasadena Police Chief J. Perez invited local reporters to a press conference regarding an officer involved #shooting that occurred in the city May 8. On Friday, May 8, 2020, at approximately 3:35 p.m., Pasadena Police Department personnel were in the area of Walnut Street and Meridith Avenue when they attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage for a vehicle code violation. Lloyd Nelson Jr., the 47-year-old male driver and solo occupant of the vehicle failed to yield, and a vehicle pursuit ensued. Nelson drove recklessly through city streets, and officers discontinued their direct pursuit while the Pasadena Police helicopter monitored the suspect from above. The video has been released and is now on the Pasadena Police.