A Salt Lake police K-9 officer already charged with aggravated assault for a case involving a man who was bitten last year now faces a new criminal charge in a separate biting incident.
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Hundreds who oppose vaccines particularly the COVID-19 vaccines currently used to fight coronavirus globally gathered in Moroni, Utah to burn a giant syringe in effigy to celebrate a night of liberty and the end of medical tyranny.
Former police officer Eric Moutsos broadcast the event that attracted hundreds of people, including many families, to watch the syringe go up in flames. Moutsos was put into the public eye when he was put on leave as a Salt Lake City Police Department officer for declining to ride as a motorcycle escort for a Utah Pride parade.
During 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been a vocal leader and organizer against the way Utah has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. He produced the film Non-Essential and has played it at tour stops in several states, including several in Utah. He also organized business rallies against mask mandates.
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When Michael Rosfeld, a rookie East Pittsburgh police officer, shot and killed an unarmed teenager named Antwon Rose II in June 2018, some Pennsylvania lawmakers started kicking around the idea of improving training and hiring standards for cops across the state.
Several months before Rosfeld was hired in East Pittsburgh, he’d resigned from a university policing job after being notified that he was going to be fired. That a troubled cop could so easily get another law enforcement job and then take someone’s life seemed to make the case that the state needed to have a better way of regulating its police forces, which number more than 1,000.
Decarcerate Utah, a group looking to defund the Salt Lake City Police Department, listed their demands Tuesday, saying local leaders have ignored the “will of the people,” according to KUTV.
In a new declaration, the group claims the police department is overstaffed compared to similar-sized cities across the nation. They suggest the number of employees in the SLCPD be cut in half (from 711 to 356), which would free up a lot of money that could be spent elsewhere.
The group’s demands also include a reduction in the police department’s budget from $79 million to $39.5 million, the elimination of funding from the non-departmental budget reserved for policing operations and investment of the saved funds from the police department into supportive community programs.
SLCPD releases name of man found murdered in industrial area Saturday morning
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SALT LAKE CITY â The Salt Lake City Police Department has released the name of the man who was found murdered in an industrial area Saturday morning.
According to SLCPD, the victim was 51-year-old Kevin Hettich.
Police told FOX 13 Hettich s body was found near 338 W Hansen Ave. and he had been badly beaten.