Shocking police footage shows man brutally beating victim with a baseball bat



A Connecticut police officer shot and killed a man who was brutally beating his father with a baseball bat on Sunday, according to residents in the neighborhood.

Meriden police said they were called to the residence on Sagamore Road at about 10 a.m. on Sunday over reports of a domestic violence situation.

An autopsy found that the victim died from blunt force head injuries and listed his cause of death as homicide.

The shocking body camera footage shows a man beating a victim with a bat as the officer arrives.

The officer yells at the man to stop, but he continues attacking the man. Seconds later, the officer shoots at the man, who falls down.

The alleged attacker was identified as 38-year-old Robert Lee Jenkins III, who was treated for gunshot wounds and hospitalized before he was declared dead at about 11:30 p.m.

His victim was also declared dead at the scene.

WVIT-TV reported that numerous neighbors in the area confirmed the victim to be the father of Jenkins, but Connecticut law prevents the identification of victims of certain crimes.

The Connecticut Office of the Inspector General said the cause of death for Jenkins was determined by the chief medical examiner to be multiple gunshot wounds to the torso.

An autopsy found that the victim died from blunt force head injuries and listed his cause of death as homicide.

Some reports indicate that the officer fired nearly 20 times at Jenkins.

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The Office of the Inspector General released the body camera footage from the harrowing incident.

The New Haven Judicial District State's Attorney's Office is investigating the incident along with the Connecticut State Police Central District Major Crime Squad and the Meriden Police Department.

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'That's some karma': Man's truck stolen while he was busy burglarizing Verizon store, Maryland police say



Maryland police said they were surprised to realize the victim of a truck robbery was also the perpetrator of a burglary at the same time.

Jalen Godard, 29, of Odenton called police on Thursday morning to report that someone had stolen his truck at about 5:44 a.m.

'Don't you hate it when your car gets stolen while you're committing a burglary?'

The Howard County Police Dept. posted footage from officers' body cameras as well as surveillance video from the store.

"Man, someone took my truck," Godard said to the responding officer, according to footage released.

"Did you leave it here running?" the officer asked.

"I was at McDonald's," Godard replied.

The officer realized there had been a burglary report at a Verizon store near the same location of the stolen truck, just a few minutes prior.

Then another piece of evidence linked the two incidents: Blood was found at the robbery scene at the window that had been broken, and the officer noticed blood on Godard's hands.

"Let me just see your hands real quick. Let me see this hand," the officer said.

"All right, put your hands behind your back for me," he adds after inspecting Godard's hands.

The officer tells Godard that he has blood on his hands, his glasses, and his shirt.

Godard denies being in a Verizon store, but the video shows footage from the store of the crook that looks very much like the suspect.

"So, the gig's up. It's whether you want to be honest about stuff or not," the officer says.

Godard continues denying that he robbed the store, which makes the officer laugh.

"That's kind of some karma s**t right there, ain't it?" he says.

"Well, I left the keys in," Godard replies.

"Yeah, that's some karma s**t right there, dude!" the officer says.

Godard was charged with burglary, theft, and destruction of property.

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"Don't you hate it when your car gets stolen while you're committing a burglary?" the police department wrote on the post with the video.

"Great work by PFC Buchanan connecting the dots to the burglary across the street when this suspect called to report his car was stolen," the department added. "Karma, indeed."

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British cop involved in Henry Nowak murder case resigns as fury intensifies over damning arrest footage



Henry Nowak, a white teenager headed for home in the Southampton suburb of Portswood, England, was savagely attacked on Dec. 3 by a knife-wielding Sikh named Vickrum Digwa.

The attacker stabbed Nowak several times, filmed his desperate attempt to flee, and loomed over him as his chest cavity filled with blood. Adding grievous insult to injury, Digwa, joined by members of his family at the scene, falsely told police that his bleeding and crumpled victim was the real aggressor — that Nowak was a racist who attacked him, called him a "Paki," and knocked off his turban.

'A deep line needs to be drawn in the sand.'

Digwa was convicted of murder last week and sentenced on Monday to a minimum of 21 years in prison.

While Digwa will be going away, the scandal surrounding Nowak's death isn't — certainly not after the release of damning body camera footage showing how poorly police treated the teen in his final minutes.

Hundreds of protesters swarmed Southampton Central Police Station on Tuesday carrying English flags and signs that said, "All lives matter," and demanding justice for Nowak, whom police arrested for assault, handcuffed, and treated as a criminal, all on the basis of Digwa's lies.

In addition to reciting the Lord's Prayer, denouncing the police involved in Nowak's arrest, and chanting "Christ is king," some protesters yelled, "I can't breathe" — a phrase the young man apparently said to police nine times before losing consciousness, footage revealed.

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Remigration activist Tommy Robinson stressed to his fellow protesters that the public does not want the officers involved to resign "with fully bloody pensions" but to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

A spokesman for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, which oversees Southampton, confirmed to Blaze News that three of the officers who responded to the scene of Nowak's murder in December are still serving but that one officer has resigned.

The spokesman noted further that the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is investigating the incident, is treating the officers as witnesses, meaning they are "not subject to any restrictions."

The police department complained on social media Tuesday about "the significant spread of misinformation online" and has asked that "people avoid harmful speculation online" while the IOPC investigation is under way.

While Britons took to the streets to signal their displeasure, lawmakers and other officials — confronted with the bloody results of years of woke policies — have roundly condemned the murder and character assassination of Nowak.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, for instance, called the body camera footage "harrowing" and noted that "it's absolutely right that the IOPC is looking at this."

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch blasted Britain's "race-based laws" and "two-tiered policing."

"The fear of being called racist was greater than dealing with Henry Nowak’s murder," said Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who demanded on Monday that England's attorney general ensure that Digwa can never walk free again. "We should respond to this with pure cold rage."

"Enough is enough — a deep line needs to be drawn in the sand. Talk is weak. Britain needs to say no more, and mean it," wrote Rupert Lowe, the leader of Restore Britain.

In her lengthy response to the scandal, British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made sure to reassure the public that "everyone in this country is equal before the law," that there can be no justification for vigilante justice, and that the Labour regime "is committed to halving knife crime in this decade."

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Bodycam video shows moment authorities put to death massive alligator that killed 41-year-old Florida woman



Newly released bodycam video shows the moment that authorities put to death a massive alligator that had recently killed a Florida woman.

Last September, a Florida man noticed what appeared to be a human body hanging out of the mouth of a huge alligator in Pinellas County.

The witness, Jamarcus Bullard, told WTVT at the time, "I noticed it had a body in its mouth, like a lower torso, so once I saw that, I ran straight to the fire department and got them, they confirmed it was a body."

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was called to the grisly scene and discovered the body of 41-year-old Sabrina Peckham was in the alligator's mouth. Bodycam footage from the FWC shows authorities wrangling the massive alligator with ropes and chains. Suddenly in the bodycam video released last week, one of the officers is seen using a rifle to shoot and "humanely" kill the animal.

The gator – nearly 14 feet in length – was later dissected, and some of Peckham's remains were found inside the beast.

Peckham was a homeless woman who lived in a campsite roughly 35-45 feet away from the canal where the alligator attack occurred. Investigators found no evidence that the alligator attacked the woman at the campsite in Largo, Florida.

Peckham's family last saw her a day before the deadly alligator attack. A park ranger reported seeing the woman near the canal a week before her tragic death.

Peckham's daughter, Breanna Dorris, shared her grief during a vigil held in September.

The heartbroken daughter said at the time of her mother's death, "It's surreal, but I'm super grateful her community can pull together in times like this. It shows we have an amazing support team behind us in times of tragedy,"

Doris wrote a Facebook post that read: "The past 24 hours have been filled with grief and sorrow and unbearable pain for our family. My mother, Sabrina Peckham, was the victim of the alligator attack at McKay Creek. She was a part of the homeless population living in the nearby wooded area. It's believed she may have been walking to or from her campsite near the creek in the dark when the gator attacked."

Since the fatal incident, Pinellas County has installed fencing and signs warning people to stay away from the canal.

The canal, known as McKay Creek, connects Ridgecrest Lake and Taylor Lake. Alligators have been known to use this waterway to travel between the two lakes.

You can watch the chilling bodycam video here.

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Dramatic video shows father on his knees begging as hero cop saves his choking baby's life: 'Officer, please!'



A Los Angeles Police department sergeant's body cam footage captured the moment a panicked motorist ran into the road with a listless toddler in his arms.

What are the details?

Sgt. Bumjin Kim was on patrol duty in the area of Bellevue Avenue and Echo Park Avenue on the evening of Jan. 19 when he noticed two parents across the intersection screaming for help.

A release from the LAPD stated that a man in hysterics rushed toward the officer with a limp child in his arms.

The man could be heard screaming, "I don't know what's wrong! Officer, please! I don't know what's wrong!"

Kim jumped into action and was almost immediately able to clear the choking toddler's airway after deftly radioing for medical backup.

The unnamed child immediately began crying and gasping for air after the officer dislodged the object from her throat.

"On January 19, an LAPD Sergeant assigned to Rampart Division was on patrol when he saw parents yelling for help, with a lifeless toddler in their arms," the report said. "Without hesitation, the Sergeant took immediate action, cleared the airway, and seconds later the toddler was breathing."

Caught on camera: LAPD officer saves choking child www.youtube.com

'We shared a hug'

KHOU-TV reported that Kim, a father of a 3-year-old child, said that he is “glad everybody’s safe.”

“The whole incident ... 45 seconds, or a minute, whatever it was ... but my big thing was at the time was getting the paramedics there,” he said. “And it didn’t hit really me at about what’s going on until got they got there, and there was a sigh of relief once the baby started breathing and crying.”

Kim said that he and the child's father embraced following the emotional ordeal.

“I spoke to the dad, and ... he was grateful. We shared a hug,” Kim said. “I think it was a sigh of relief for both of us fathers.”

Paramedics arrived on the scene and took the child to a local hospital for treatment. She was listed in stable condition and is expected to recover.

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VIDEO: Mother of 5-year-old boy files lawsuit after police handcuff, scream in face of child after he wanders away from school



A Maryland mother has filed a lawsuit against the Montgomery County Police Department after her 5-year-old son was subjected to a "nightmare" experience, according to NBC News, including threats, screaming, and handcuffing.

The incident took place in January 2020, and Montgomery County police released body camera footage of the exchange on Friday.

What are the details?

On a January day in 2020, the child — who remains unidentified at the time of this reporting — reportedly wandered away from school without permission.

The disturbing video begins when one of the officers discovers the child on a residential street near the school.

An officer stops the child and can be heard asking, "Listen to me: How old are you?"

The child responded, "Five."

"Five?" the officer fired back. "You feel like you can make your own decisions? You feel like you can do what you want?"

The child, naturally, became emotional and began to cry and carry on during the questioning. As police walked the child to the rear of the patrol vehicle, the child began screaming.

"You better stop," an officer told the boy in response.

According to the outlet, "As the 50-minute video unfolds, the interactions between law enforcement officers and the child escalate. The boy sobs and appears inconsolable as officers repeatedly tell him that he is 'bad' and should be beaten."

One of the officers can be heard asking the child, "Does your mama spank you? Does your mama spank you? She's going to spank you today."

"When the boy doesn't stop crying," the report continued, "a police officer screams just inches from his face. Later, after the child was reunited with his mother, a police officer takes out a pair of handcuffs and places the little boy's wrists inside them."

The officer told the boy, "You know what these are for? These are for people who don't want to listen and don't know how to act."

In a statement, Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando said, "I watched in horror as what can only be described as a nightmare unfolded for nearly an hour. It made me sick."

What's happening now?

A spokesperson for the Montgomery County Police said in a statement that both officers remain employed with the department.

The results of an internal investigation, the spokesperson said, are confidential under Maryland state law.

Montgomery County school officials issued a statement on the body camera footage, saying it was "extremely difficult" to watch.

"Our heart aches for this student," the statement added. "There is no excuse for adults to ever speak to or threaten a child in this way. As parents and grandparents, we know that when families send their children to school, they expect that the staff will care for them, keep them safe, and use appropriate intervention processes when needed."

The child's mother — who also remains unnamed at the time of this reporting — filed a suit against the department, Montgomery County, and Montgomery County Public Schools.

She is seeking "compensation and justice" for the child's ordeal.

Anything else to know?

According to WRC-TV, attorney James Papirmeister said that the child was inconsolable during the ride in the police car.

"Very, very upset, not offering any physical resistance," he said of the child's demeanor. "And the officers, and in turn the school, treated him like he was a common criminal."

"The officers [were] advising [the mother] how to get away with beating the child without getting in trouble for child abuse," Papirmeister added. "She said, 'I don't want to beat my child.' They said that the boy wouldn't stop crying, an officer allegedly told him, 'I don't want to hear it. I still don't want to hear it. You better stop. You better cut that out.'"

Matthew Bennett, another attorney representing the mother, added, "Something went awry here and we're hoping that a lesson can be learned from it in the sense that it doesn't happen in the future and whatever training or retraining needs to be done gets done."

(Content warning: Disturbing footage):

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