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Demonstrators challenged policing and pushed for changes from the department to legislative levels. How did policing change?

Heart-stopping images show Culpeper County police stopping man from jumping off cell phone tower Images show police in Virginia trying to stop man from jumping off cell phone tower Heart-stopping images from Culpeper County show police trying to stop a man from jumping off of a cell phone tower. CULPEPER COUNTY, Va. - Police officers in Culpeper County, Virginia climbed a 250-foot cell phone tower Sunday trying to save a man threatening to jump. "We tried the bullhorn and other methods, but it wasn’t working," said Jenkins. "At several points, he had gotten up on that second rail and he was...

Find out what's happening in Woodbridge with free, real-time updates from Patch. Let's go! The Prince William County Community Services is creating a Missions Workgroup for the Marcus Alert System. Through the workgroup, officials hope to receive feedback from community members. This input will help determine behavioral health crisis system needs. Find out what's happening in Woodbridge with free, real-time updates from Patch. Let's go! submit an application by April 30. For questions, email PWMarcusAlert@pwcgov.org. Comments are also being collected through a survey until May 28. The Marcus...

Captain Steve Richardson was one of 40 people selected from over 300 nominations to serve as a member of the 40 person Marcus Alert State Stakeholder Planning Group. He was one of the handful of law-enforcement professionals invited to serve in the group. The “Marcus Alert” stands for “mental health awareness response and community understanding services.” It provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Development Services coordinate and implement initiatives regarding mental health, substance abuse and emergency ma...

By ALLISON BROPHY CHAMPION Culpeper Star-Exponent The 44-year-old man killed by a Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office deputy at his house on Thursday morning was an Army veteran who served honorably, according to a local pastor. Donald Francis Hairston, an African-American, was shot to death by police called out for a welfare check to the home on Horseshoe Drive. According to Virginia State Police, the agency in charge of the investigation, Hairston shot a gun and pointed it at deputies before he was fatally shot. This is the second fatal shooting in three months by CCSO deputie...