Bristol police Sgt. Dustin Demonte, 35, and Officer Alex Hamzy, 34, who were both shot dead late Wednesday night, were highly commended officers who previously earned awards for saving lives in medical emergencies, mourning city police and officials said Thursday.
We’ve all experienced them. Those moments when the stakes are at an all-time high and we can feel the pressure constricting our souls. They can be overwhelming and unpleasant experiences for sure, but luckily for most of us, that’s all they are – just moments.
Police found heroin and fentanyl, but they didn t find any guns.
Ten years earlier, a Black man also in his 20s died after a police no-knock drug raid in a Toronto highrise. In that case, an officer shot Eric Osawe and was charged with murder, but threelevels of court concurred that it was an accident.
In 2016, tactical officers in London, Ont., shot dead 35-year-old Sam Maloney at his family home in front of his wife and kids while dynamically executing a search warrant for computer tampering charges.
Maloney was known to distrust authorities and shot the first officer he saw entering his house with a crossbow before running down a hallway holding a hatchet overhead.
January 15, 2021
Every month, my Uncle Kenji and Tía Sol would drive up the coast from San Diego to the wide, green plain of Oxnard, California, where my family had been farming and working in the fields since the end of World War II. We would host a garage party for them, dragging the mowers and buckets of tools to the driveway to make room for a ping-pong table covered with platters of futomaki, inari, teriyaki chicken, steamed corn, and watermelon slices. We sat on wooden crates and threadbare couches in the cool garage, balancing paper plates of chicken and potato salad on our knees while listening to Japanese folk music on a cassette player.