Category: Police

Guy sends us a link to the story of Irvington police Officer Arcangelo Liberatore who was at the park with his kids when a coyote attacked a 5-year-old, “like a cheetah” according to the girl’s mother Kasey King-Petrellese. After making his own kids safe, Officer Liberatore intervened in the coyote’s nefarious intentions;

Irvington police officer Arcangelo Liberatore said he mounted the coyote and had his hands around its neck.

“I just sat and tried to squeeze the life out of it, but it was pretty resilient,” he said.

Liberatore sat on the out-of-control creature until Mount Pleasant police arrived and shot it.

From Fox News;

Liberatore had a bandage on his arm Monday, according to the Journal News.

“I was telling my wife, I’m just wired differently than most people, I think,” he said. “I run toward danger.”

Mick sends us the news that James Decoursey, while disguised as a police officer, killed off-duty Hopkinsville Police officer Phillip Meacham when Decoursey pulled over Meacham. Logan County, Kentucky Sheriff’s Office reports that they put down Decoursey according to Fox News;

According to a Hopkinsville Police Department news release, the off-duty officer was pulled over in his own car by someone “pretending to be a police officer.” Not long after, the officer reportedly was shot by the suspect. He was rushed to the hospital where he ultimately died from his injuries, authorities said.

From Kentucky New Era;

Decoursey is believed to have fled the scene on foot before stealing a white 1997 white Chevrolet pickup truck, Kentucky license plate number 2070GH.

The stolen vehicle was located at Cracker Barrel in Clarksville, according to scanner traffic. Shortly late, scanner traffic indicated Decoursey was located behind Cracker Barrel. An employee of the Exxon gas station next to Cracker Barrel said he heard multiple gunshots and that officers had blocked off traffic in the area.

HPD confirmed early Friday morning that Decoursey was dead. He is believed to have been shot by police, though it’s unclear if it was by Clarksville Police Department or Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.

Devtun and Mick send us a link to the story of Prescott Valley, Arizona police Chief Bryan Jarrell who changed his clothes in a public restroom at the library forgetting his Glock 19 handgun for four days. Four days.

I’m not sure how a police officer forgets that he doesn’t have his gun for four days.

Anyway, he’s asking for the public’s help to find the handgun. I’m sure it will show up at a crime scene soon.

Top Goz sends us a story from Blue Lives Matter about Iaroslav Mosiiuk who decided to point a rifle at Charlotte, North Carolina Police Officer Mike Dezenso when the officer responded to a domestic disturbance call.

The officers retreated to different positions of cover while Officer Dezenso yelled, “Gun, gun, gun.” Mosiiuk pursued the officers to the end of his driveway and lifted his rifle to shoot at Officer Dezenso. That’s when Officer Brian Walsh fired a singled well-placed shot from approximately 75 feet away to take take the man down and save his partner.

Mosiiuk was his mid-back and was transported to the hospital where he died of his gunshot wound.

Yep, Officer Welsh took a single shot with a Glock, no less, and killed the criminal. It was later determined that the rifle Mosiiuk was inoperable, someone had removed the bolt before the incident. But here’s the video of the shot that occurs at about 1:27 mark;

The DA concluded, “While the death of Iaroslav Mosiiuk is certainly a tragedy, it is not a crime. Officer Walsh was dealing with a mentally ill subject pointing a rifle at him, his partner and nearby civilians. The officer’s decision to fire his weapon is justified under the law of self-defense.”

I’m just impressed by the shot with a Glock using iron sights.

According to ABC News, New York police officer, 48-year-old Miosotis Familia was assassinated by Alexander Bonds, 34 while she was sitting in her mobile command vehicle, aside her partner. A bystander was also wounded and her partner was unharmed. Bond was confronted by officers and gunned down when he drew his revolver on them minutes after the murder.

At a press conference Wednesday morning, New York City Police Department Commissioner James P. O’Neill said Familia had been shot in the head in an “unprovoked attack” while sitting with her partner in a marked police command vehicle on the corner of Morris Avenue and East 183 Street around 12:30 a.m. ET. O’Neill told reporters the vehicle had been parked there since March due to increased gang activity in the area.

According to the New York Times, Bonds was paroled in 2013 after seven years in prison for an armed robbery in Syracuse.