BREAKING! GERMANY -- At least 3 injured after a letter bomb explodes at Lidl's head offices in Neckarsulm. A suspected letter bomb has exploded at the headquarters of the Lidl supermarket chain in Neckarsulm, Germany, with police telling local media three people were injured. It’s the second such incident in two days in the country. The wounded have been rushed to hospital. One of the three sustained moderate injuries in the incident, according to local reports, while the other two escaped with light injuries. Around 100 people were evacuated from the administrative building, located in a small town near Stuttgart. While police have confirmed that three people were injured, they have not corroborated media reports that the blast was caused by a letter bomb. According to German news outlet Bild, a bomb disposal squad has been spotted entering the building.
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The former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, NJ was imploded on Wednesday morning. It has been closed since 2014.
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Meanwhile, in Texas ... One state has snow plows. The other doesn’t. One side of this street is Texarkana, Arkansas. The other side is Texarkana, Texas. "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." There is a leadership failure in Texas..
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Gas stations getting pilfered now in Austin.
Many want to blame Trump... but police say their bosses were to blame.
“Our leaders did not properly plan for the protest nor prepare officers for what they were about to face... they knew days before that the protest had the potential to turn violent.”
http://ow.ly/wP3q50DCaSB
“Our leaders did not properly plan for the protest nor prepare officers for what they were about to face... they knew days before that the protest had the potential to turn violent.”
http://ow.ly/wP3q50DCaSB
Law Enforcement Today
Capitol Police union deliver 'overwhelming' vote of no confidence in leadership: 'The bosses can't be trusted'
In the wake of the riot at the Capitol Building, the U.S. Capitol Police Labor Union delivered a vote of "no confidence" in senior leadership.
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BREAKING! Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party, died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer. #RIP
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A transformer caught fire in Hoboken, New Jersey. Another had exploded the night before, leaving thousands of residents without power.
This is what happens when you protect criminals who attack cops. This is what happens when you defund the police. This is what happens when officers have decided they've had enough.
Good luck, New York. The city is screwed.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/2021-nypd-retirements-expected-to-blow-past-2020s-72-increase/
Good luck, New York. The city is screwed.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/2021-nypd-retirements-expected-to-blow-past-2020s-72-increase/
Law Enforcement Today
Mass exodus: 2021 NYPD retirements expected to blow past 2020’s 72% increase in officer's calling it quits
The New York Police Department is on track to face even greater losses of officers in 2021, according to NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea.
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AR15.COM: Did you ever America so hard you knocked your teeth out?
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President Trump Reacts to the Death of Rush Limbaugh
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Austin, Texas -- This is what Austin is like right now. Only a few grocery stores open, the ones that are have lines around the block and aren’t currently being restocked. Roads are still iced over, traffic lights are still off. Still no power/water for a lot of the city.
Full blown ice hockey games taking place in Texas.
The Los Angeles public school district has voted to ax 133 members of its police force — and replace them with school “climate coaches” to help black students.
The district’s board voted Tuesday night to cut the Los Angeles School Police budget by $25 million, losing 70 sworn officers, 62 non-sworn officers and one member of support staff, the force said. The money will help create a $36.5 million new Black Student Achievement Plan, with most of it used to hire “climate coaches” at secondary schools, the Los Angeles Times said.
The coaches “will provide students with an advocate on campus who is trained and focused on implementing positive school culture and climate,” a school report said. They will use “effective de-escalation strategies” while “building positive relationships and elevating student voice, eliminating racial disproportionality in school discipline practices, and understanding and addressing implicit bias,” the report said. The cuts amount to 28 percent of the police department’s staff, and defied “significant opposition” among parents and staff, the force said.
“Make no mistake, this will impact student and staff safety,” warned Rob Taylor, the president of L.A.’s School Police Management Association.
The district’s board voted Tuesday night to cut the Los Angeles School Police budget by $25 million, losing 70 sworn officers, 62 non-sworn officers and one member of support staff, the force said. The money will help create a $36.5 million new Black Student Achievement Plan, with most of it used to hire “climate coaches” at secondary schools, the Los Angeles Times said.
The coaches “will provide students with an advocate on campus who is trained and focused on implementing positive school culture and climate,” a school report said. They will use “effective de-escalation strategies” while “building positive relationships and elevating student voice, eliminating racial disproportionality in school discipline practices, and understanding and addressing implicit bias,” the report said. The cuts amount to 28 percent of the police department’s staff, and defied “significant opposition” among parents and staff, the force said.
“Make no mistake, this will impact student and staff safety,” warned Rob Taylor, the president of L.A.’s School Police Management Association.
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Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office: An AMBER Alert for Tinnley Sage West, 1, has been canceled after the infant was located safely inside her family's stolen car at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16. West was abducted just before 3 p.m. on Tuesday while sleeping in a car seat in the backseat of a 2018 Volkswagen SUV. Her mother was assisting a family member to carry items into a home on the 2600 block of Green Valley Street in Valrico when a suspect entered and drove off in the unlocked, running vehicle. Deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office conducted a thorough search by land and by air more than two hours until West was located approximately three miles from the home by HCSO Master Corporal John Seale. The SUV, with West still inside, was left abandoned at the St Andrews United Methodist Church located at 3315 S Bryan Road in Brandon. West was unharmed and returned to her parents. (Read more.)
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BREAKING! Mass shooting reported at Philadelphia transit station. Seven people were shot in broad daylight near SEPTA’s Olney Transportation Station on Wednesday afternoon. Philadelphia Police say the shooting happened shortly before 3 p.m. at Broad Street and Olney Avenue.
Henderson police have released a few details about the apparent murder-suicide on Tuesday night. Arriving officers at the residence on Sunridge Heights Parkway in Henderson, they found a 25-year-old female and 29-year-old male inside the home deceased. They also discovered a 2-year-old child, a 14-month-old baby and 2 dogs inside the residence. The Clark County coroner will release the names after notification has been made. This is the third homicide for Henderson in 2021. No other details are being released at this time.
KTNV
UPDATE: Coroner identifies bodies from Henderson murder-suicide
Henderson Police Department is investigating an apparent murder-suicide on Sunridge Heights Parkway near Seven Hills Drive and St. Rose Parkway.
Images from today, Feb 17, of the Afghan-Iran border showing the aftermath of a series of fuel tanker explosions that occurred on Feb 13 at the Islam Qala crossing in Afghanistan's Herat province. 500+ trucks carrying natural gas & fuel were reportedly destroyed in the blasts.