DC s first female police officer killed in the line of duty honored with street sign Nick Boykin
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Gail Cobb, the Metropolitan Police Department s first female officer to die in the line of duty, was honored during a ceremony Saturday that dedicated a street name in her honor.
Cobb was shot to death while on patrol in 1974. Gale Cobb Way is now the name of a street in an area where the former officer grew up - It is located in what is the 300 block of 14th Place, Northeast.
The ceremony was also followed by a cook-out was held to celebrate Cobb, who died at the age of 24.
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Officer Adam Coy, a 19-year veteran, shot and killed Andre Hill last week.
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Officer fired in fatal shooting of Andre Hill
Adam Coy was terminated by the Columbus Police Department for unreasonable use of force, not turning on his body camera and not rendering aid to Hill while he was dying.Andre Hill/Facebook
The Columbus, Ohio, public safety director has decided to terminate Columbus police officer Adam Coy after Coy shot and killed Andre Hill, a Black man, last week.
In a Monday ruling, Public Safety Director Ned Pettus Jr. wrote that known facts do not establish that this use of deadly force was objectively reasonable.