Pavon Davis cowered behind a fallen pine tree, his heart racing. The sharp teeth of a trained police dog drew nearer. Davis, 18, and his friends had jumped a fence and entered Flanagan High School to play manhunt. Now a helicopter hovered overhead, guiding Pembroke Pines Police Officer Mark Farah and K-9 Rory to Davis’ hiding spot. The dog bit without warning, body camera footage shows. As the .
The South Florida Sun Sentinel examined K-9 bites over a 17-month period at Broward’s largest police agencies and found 84 percent of people bitten were Black. The dogs are indispensable for finding and capturing dangerous criminals. Yet more than half of the people bitten were accused of nonviolent property crimes. The typical K-9 case: a young Black man driving a stolen car or accused of stealing from an unlocked one.
Gamecocks Walk Off Mississippi State in 11 Innings This was Carolina’s second walk-off win on Mother’s Day in the past four years. (Source: Ryan Bethea) By USC Athletics | May 9, 2021 at 9:36 PM EDT - Updated May 9 at 9:45 PM
COLUMBIA – David Mendham’s RBI double in the bottom of the 11th that scored Jeff Heinrich lifted the University of South Carolina baseball team to a 4-3 extra-inning win over No. 4 Mississippi State Sunday afternoon (May 9) at Founders Park.
Heinrich singled to right with one out and scored from first on Mendham’s double to the gap in left. Carolina was down to its last at-bats in the ninth, but Heinrich doubled to right to score pinch runner Noah Myers, tying the game at three.