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An Omaha, Nebraska, police officer attempting to arrest a shoplifting suspect was shot in the face and the top of his head during an altercation with the suspect.
Officer Jeffrey Wittstruck, a four-year veteran of the Omaha police, was shot after responding to a call at Nebraska’s largest mall after security officers detained Kenya Lamont Jenkins Jr. for allegedly stealing a package of T-shirts from J.C. Penney.
In a statement, the department said Jenkins was “not forthcoming or cooperative” and, after a brief struggle, Wittstruck attempted to use a taser on Jenkins but the probes were “ineffective.”
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Washington D.C. Organizers of National Police Week have announced that the May events have been postponed until October 2021. The host organizations of National Police Week, which include the National Law Enforcement Memorial and Museum, the Fraternal Order of Police and Auxiliary (FOP), and Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S), announced this week that they made the “difficult but necessary decision” to postpone in-person events of National Police Week to October 13-17, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
The original event was to be held May 11-16, 2021. The organizers cited the inability to secure necessary permits in time for in-person gatherings due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.
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Case Western Reserve professor raises awareness, offers solutions
Of the 264 police officers who died in the line of duty in 2020 across the United States, more than half died of COVID-19, according to new data compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (PDF) (NLEOMF).
A professor at Case Western Reserve University is bringing some awareness to the disturbing trend.
Mark Singer
“COVID-19 is absolutely devastating police departments around the country,” said Singer, also deputy director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Mandel School. “I’m certain there are local departments that have been ravaged by this disease, as well as our hospitals’ staff, firemen and EMS. We need to do everything we can to promote healthy, safe first responders.”