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Man sentenced to life for killing Mich. cop, kicked out of court during hearing

Michael Lopez was sentenced to life in prison, a mandatory sentence because he was convicted by a jury of murder, following a contentious hearing

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Seattle reaches $2.6M settlement with 4 officers over sexual harassment claims

The four officers alleged that department officials, including former chief Adrian Diaz, created a hostile work environment and sexually harassed them

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Video: Suspect in back of Dallas cruiser escapes handcuffs, tries to drive away

When Dallas Police officers stopped to restrain the man, he climbed into the driver’s seat with one of the officers in the backseat

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Video: Fleeing suspect nabbed by Grappler 33 seconds after Wash. deputy joins pursuit

A Thurston County deputy quickly brought the pursuit to a halt after he used his Grappler-equipped cruiser to stop a repeat fleeing DUI suspect

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Ky. police chief moves to fire officer following fatal OIS of naked assault suspect

Body camera video shows the unarmed man running toward the officer when the officer fired a single shot, fatally wounding the man

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‘He rammed me’: 17-year-old driver strikes Kan. PD cruiser head-on

The Lawrence Police officer arrested the driver, who had also rammed his father’s vehicle after a family dispute

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Suspect who took 10 people hostage in Calif. standoff has been shot and killed, police say

The suspect, a registered sex offender with a prior criminal history, was killed as FBI agents ended the 16-hour ordeal

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BWC: Man throws lit Molotov cocktail on cruiser, stabs K-9 in head before fatal OIS

Grand Rapids PD officers responded to the scene after the man threatened to kill his family; he tried to set a cruiser ablaze, carjacked a woman and attacked a K-9 before the shooting

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FBI fatally shoots man holding hostages in Calif. bank building

The suspect was killed in “an officer-involved shooting involving Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel,” the Bakersfield Police Department said in a statement

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S.C. officer fired after pointing gun at colleague in alleged confrontation over microwaved fish

Michael Debiase allegedly confronted another Myrtle Beach officer who was “warming up fish in the microwave, causing an odor,” according to an arrest warrant

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Calif. police continue negotiations with man holding hostages under bomb threat

After more than 20 hours of negotiations and the release of two hostages, the barricaded man and several other hostages remain inside the building as of 9:30 a.m. on May 3

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Ex-N.Y. trooper sentenced up to 7.5 years in prison in pursuit crash death of 11-year-old

Monica Goods’s father fled a traffic stop after refusing to hand over his license to then-trooper Christopher Baldner; Baldner rammed the vehicle, leading to a crash that killed Monica

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N.C. police officer fired, charged after video captures him repeatedly striking woman during arrest

Video shows the 22-year-old officer punching the woman multiple times before another officer intervened and placed the woman in handcuffs

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Video: Woman points gun at civilians, officers inside Ariz. PD lobby before OIS

Surveillance footage from a Scottsdale Police station shows the woman walking in and pointing a gun at the desk attendant and a person waiting for service in the lobby

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BWC: Suspect stabs Colo. officer in head multiple times before fatal OIS

As Aurora Police Officer Mark Moore was being stabbed in the head with a butcher knife, he fired multiple shots at the suspect, striking him

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