A man walked through East Oakland with two knives lashed to poles. Officers followed him down the street and tried Tasers first. He turned and swung. Two officers fired.
LVMPD officers cleared a burning house room by room. Behind a locked door, a round hit an officer in the chest. Her vest stopped it. A 14-year-old girl did not survive.
An armed robber took a mother and four children hostage in North Olmsted. An Elyria officer went through the door seconds behind him. Every hostage came out unharmed.
Eight officer-involved shootings broken down: a hostage rescue in North Olmsted, an officer shot through a door in Las Vegas, and a Dallas cop who fired on his own undercover.
A carjacker who took a man's car at rifle-point opened fire on Vallejo officers during the felony stop. Instead of rushing a man who'd already shot at them, they used cover, called for a shield, and let time work — until he tried to drive off. A textbook fatal shooting.
Downtown Louisville. Just after midnight, July 26. LMPD got an active break-in call near Fifth and York — a caller watching two men in all black break glass and climb through a ground-floor window.
Nine HPD officers opened fire on a felony-stop suspect who popped his door and simulated a pistol. He survived with a graze. It was a legal shooting — and a clinic in what not to do when the rounds start.
