Author - Sandy Malone

Managing Editor - twitter.com/SandyMalone_ - Prior to joining The Police Tribune, Sandy wrote the Politics.Net column for the Wall Street Journal and was managing editor of Campaigns & Elections magazine. More recently, she was an internationally-syndicated columnist for Conde Nast (BRIDES), The Huffington Post, and Monsters and Critics. Sandy is married to a retired police captain and former SWAT commander.
Oct 09
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UPDATE: T-Mobile Takes Action Against Employee Who Demanded Officer Disarm

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Grants Pass, OR – An executive from T-Mobile has apologized to the police detective who was asked to leave their Grants Pass store on Monday after he refused to disarm on duty. Grants Pass Community Service Officer Jennifer Brown told Blue Lives Matter that she and her husband received a call on Monday night. “We […]

Oct 08
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T-Mobile Store Refuses Service To On-Duty Cop After He Refused To Disarm

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Grants Pass, OR – An on-duty police officer was refused service at a T-Mobile store in Grants Pass on Monday morning because he had his firearm. Grants Pass Police Detective Ryan Brown stopped by the T-Mobile store, located on NE Terry Lane, on duty in plain clothes at about 11 am on Oct. 8. His […]

Oct 08
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Teacher On Leave After Tweeting About Killing Justice Kavanaugh

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Rosemount, MN – A special education teacher has been placed on leave after her tweet about killing newly sworn in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh went viral. “So whose [sic] gonna take one for the team and kill Kavanaugh?” Samantha Ness tweeted from her now locked-down Twitter account @lookitsSammm, shortly after Kavanaugh was sworn […]

Oct 08
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Parole Board Releases Man Sentenced To Life For Raping Toddler

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Columbus, OH – A child rapist sentenced to three life sentences has now been paroled. Butler County Assistant Prosecutor Lindsey Sheehan had urged the parole board not to release 54-year-old Mark Sprague at a hearing in January. “He is at a huge risk to commit another sexually oriented offense,” Sheehan told the members of the […]

Oct 08
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VIDEO: Armed Walmart Customer Ends Man’s Shooting Spree

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Tumwater, WA – Police have released the surveillance video of the man whose shooting spree was ended by an armed customer. The bizarre crime spree began when 44-year-old Tim Day stole his girlfriend’s gun on June 17, FOX News reported. Investigators said Day first tried to carjack a family at a gas station in Olympia, […]

Oct 05
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9-Year-Old Boy Brings Gun To School, Points It At Bullies

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Lauderhill, FL – An elementary school student was arrested on Tuesday after he brought a loaded gun to his Broward County school, and pointed it at classmates. “The investigation revealed that a 9-year-old student from Lauderhill Paul Turner brought a loaded .380 caliber Ruger handgun to school and aimed it at three classmates…” police said […]

Oct 05
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Staffer Arrested For Doxxing Republican Senators

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Washington, DC – Capitol police officers have arrested the man who released the private telephone numbers and addresses of Senate Judiciary Committee members during the hearings about U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. A former co-worker spotted 27-year-old Jackson Cosko in U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan’s (D-New Hampshire) office in the Dirksen Senate Office Building typing […]

Oct 04
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VIDEO: Police Chief Orders Officers Away From Backing Up Other Cops In Shooting

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Perrysburg, OH – A city councilman has called for the City of Perrysburg’s police chief to be charged with dereliction of duty, after dashcam video showed him order his officers back to their cars at an August officer-involved shooting scene. “Chief Paez ordered his officers to stand down as the shots were being fired and […]

Oct 02
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Two Hospitalized After Substance Mailed To Cruz Campaign; Ricin Mailed To Mattis

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Houston, TX – Two people were rushed to the hospital on Tuesday morning after being exposed to an unknown substance sent in the mail to U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s Houston campaign office. The Houston Fire Department dispatched a HAZMAT team to assist responding firefighters and police, KTRK reported. Campaign staff reported the piece of mail […]

Oct 02
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FBI Agent Shot After Booby-Trapped Wheelchair Is Triggered

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Williams, OR – A law enforcement officer was wounded by a booby-trapped wheelchair armed with shotgun ammunition in a southern Oregon home. Authorities said the home’s owner, 66-year-old Gregory Lee Rodvelt, was sued by his 90-year-old mother and her guardian for elder abuse in 2016, The Oregonian reported. Court records showed his mother won a […]

Oct 02
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VIDEO: Fur Missile Launches Over Fence To Take Down Robbery Suspect

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Ocala, FL – Authorities have released video of a police K9 taking down a fleeing robbery suspect in Ocala after deputies tried to serve him with a warrant (video below). The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said the capture featured on the video occurred on Sept. 29. Deputies attempted to serve a warrant on 29-year-old Andre […]

Oct 01
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VIDEO: Recently-Released Murderer Shoots Cop, Gets Obliterated

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Baltimore, MD – Police released bodycam video on Monday from one officer at a September shooting scene that left another officer wounded and the gunman dead (video below). Bodycam video was not available from the wounded officer because his bodycam was destroyed when he was shot in the chest, WBAL reported. The incident began just […]

Oct 01
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CA Eliminates Felony Murder Rule, Will Cut Sentences For Many Murder Convicts

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Sacramento, CA – California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law on Sunday that takes away the prosecutor’s ability to charge accomplices with felony murder. SB 1437 changed the law to say that a person can only be convicted of felony murder if they actually participated in killing someone, or if they were “a […]

Oct 01
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VIDEO: Viral Outrage Over Skateboarder Arrest For ‘Nothing,’ Now Truth Is Out

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Cambridge, MA – Friends filmed a video of their skateboarding buddy resisting arrest after he refused to leave a closed public skate park on Sunday evening (video below). The video is now evidence that can be used against the suspet. The video quickly went viral with its introduction on Facebook by Eric Abo which claimed […]

Oct 01
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Miami PD Unveils Newest Patrol ‘Car’

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Miami, FL – The Miami Police Department unveiled the latest vehicle in its fleet – a three-wheel Polaris Slingshot marked police unit that will be used for community outreach. “This is going to be an icebreaker for us. Kids are going to want to walk up to this car, see it, sit in it, talk […]

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