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The Sacramento Police Department remains committed to transparency and informing our community about our department. Please take a moment to watch this educational video regarding some of the less lethal options available to our officers, and how they have been used in a scenario that occurred during the recent.
An Oklahoma angler may have smashed both a state and world record over the weekend. An Edmond man snagged an enormous paddlefish Sunday while fishing at Keystone Lake in the Sooner State, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation posted on its Facebook page. James Lukehart landed the possible world-breaking catch weighing 146 pounds, 11 ounces, and measuring 70.5 inches with a 45-inch girth, after quite a fight he told Tulsa World. The paddlefish was certified as Oklahoma’s newest rod-and-reel-state record by Paddlefish Research Center and Northeast Region Fisheries staff, the state wildlife department wrote. Since paddlefish are not considered “sport fish,” and must be snagged, the International Game Fish Association does not keep records on the catches, Tula World reported. Instead, they are kept by biologists and state departments. #WOW
For the first time, a former police officer pleaded guilty Monday to committing a series of rapes and murders across California in the 1970s and 1980s that were attributed to the elusive “Golden State Killer.” Wearing a clear face shield and an orange jumpsuit, 74-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was wheeled into a makeshift courtroom Monday where he pleaded guilty to the first of 13 murders. A plea deal will spare DeAngelo any chance of the death penalty for 13 murders and 13 kidnapping-related charges throughout California. In partial return, survivors of the assaults expect him to admit to up to 62 rapes that he could not be criminally charged with because too much time has passed. A guilty plea and life sentence avoids a trial or even the planned weeks-long preliminary hearing.
An Alabama police officer has been fired after he sparked backlash by posting a photo on Facebook that shows a protester in the crosshairs of a rifle scope. Hoover Police Chief Nicholas Derzis said Officer Ryan Snow admitted to sharing the image on his personal social media account in response to protests over the death of Rayshard Brooks, AL com reported. The Facebook post in question involves the image of an armed, Black demonstrator, originally from an article titled “Armed protesters remain at Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed. So what’s next?” Snow shared an edited version of the picture, this one with crosshairs laid over it. “Exhale. Feel. Pause. Press steadily. That’s what’s next,” he wrote in the caption. Derzis said Snow was brought in for questioning as soon as officials were made aware of the “disturbing” post on Wednesday. He was put on leave later the same day, and by Friday he was fired.
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Colt 1877 "Bulldog" Gatling Gun in 45/70
In an Army test of a prototype Bulldog, one fired 1,000 rounds in 79 seconds with 996 hits on target at 500 yards. Today you can find reproductions, however only 50 were produced making them difficult to find and expensive. (Expensive to own too, 1,000 rounds of .45/70 a minute)
In an Army test of a prototype Bulldog, one fired 1,000 rounds in 79 seconds with 996 hits on target at 500 yards. Today you can find reproductions, however only 50 were produced making them difficult to find and expensive. (Expensive to own too, 1,000 rounds of .45/70 a minute)
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When life give you lemons, make lemonade – for others. A 5-year-old boy in Missouri has helped raise over $3,000 with lemonade stand for a volunteer firefighter who was injured in a deadly shooting at a local Applebee’s last week. Kinloch Fire Protection District firefighter Arlydia Bufford was eating in a St. John’s Applebee’s on June 22 with her best friend Kimberly Ratliffe-Penton when a random gunman opened fire inside the restaurant, Fox 2 Now reports. Ratliffe-Penton was killed, while Bufford and another customer, Lakisha French, were injured. French’s injuries were not life-threatening, and Bufford, 20, was said to be in critical, but stable condition after surgeries last Wednesday, per KDSK. After learning of Bufford’s story, Cooper Wallweber, 5, and his older sister Olivia Boyer felt compelled to do something good for the first responder. The brother and sister recently set up shop with a roadside lemonade stand in St. Peter's to benefit Bufford, and business boomed during the six-hour venture.
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Meanwhile, somewhere in Russia. 🙈 #WTF
Los Angeles County beaches will close to the public during the Fourth of July weekend to limit the spread of COVID-19, but the county sheriff announced Monday his department won't enforce the closure order. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced the order on Monday which will close the beaches for all recreational activities -- as well as prohibit fireworks displays to deter large crowds. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said his department wasn't consulted on that order and they will only enforce parking lots and traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Beaches will be closed from July 3 to July 6 at 5 a.m. The department announced more than 2,900 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, which it said was "the single largest one-day case count since the pandemic began." The order will include "all public beaches, piers, public beach parking lots, beach bike paths that traverse that sanded portion of the beach, and beach access points."
Authorities in the California Bay Area said Monday that they are investigating another incident where a person is accused of intentionally coughing on someone during the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The most recent incident occurred when police said an unidentified woman intentionally coughed on a bartender. The woman was aggravated that she was told to put on a mask and to stop hugging people at the establishment. The bar released a video of the alleged incident in hopes to identify the woman. It is unclear if the bartender will press charges. Last week, police in San Jose said they were searching for a woman who appeared to cough on a 1-year-old at a Yogurtland after becoming “upset the female was not maintaining proper social distancing, so the suspect removed her face mask, got close to the baby’s face, and coughed 2-3 times."