Las Cruces, NM, February 11, 2024 A Las Cruces Police Officer was stabbed with a "large kitchen knife" by the assailant while responding to a trespassing call. A witness intervened, using the personal handgun that was in his vehicle and running toward the altercation....
Here is yet another instance a civilian with a concealed handgun permit to help police. Fresno, CA, March 24, 2020 . . . Officers tried to pull over the car, but the driver refused to stop and sped off. The driver led police on a short chase and ended up...
“I would like to take a moment to remind everyone the dangers of this job, of being a police officer,” said a representative for LVMPD during a press briefing from the scene, “and to thank good citizens that step up and help us in our time of need.”Joyce Lupiani,...
"Thank you because I don't know if my trooper would be alive today without your assistance," Arizona DPS Col. Frank Milstead said. The attack occurred in Tonopah, Arizona. The video above is from two different news stories on the rescue. From KABC: An Arizona trooper...
An armed citizen and his companions came to the aid of a female police officer who had just been shot with her own gun. She was escorting an inmate to a mental health evaluation when he made a struggle for the firearm. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports...
UPDATE: It is now clear that the good Samaritan is the one who wounded the criminal who had shot the one police officer four times and was shooting at the other officer. The video that provides that information is from CBS Channel 2 in Chicago. Original: From the...
In February 2017, we posted links to news stories discussing how a woman named Kystie Jaehnen had come to the aid of an officer who was being beaten by a criminal. Sergeant William Halbig, President of Laughery Valley Fraternal Order of Police Lodge, posted this...
This past Friday a concealed handgun permit holder rescued a Springville, Utah police officer who was being beaten by a man. This is just one of many similar cases. From Fox News: . . . Derek Meyer told FOX13 he was driving by the area when he spotted the police...
A sheriff's deputy was assaulted by a homeless man after the deputy had given the man a ride to try to help him out. The deputy was in the process of giving the man some money when the deputy was attacked. Fortunately, according to the Atlanta Constitution, a...
This video was obtained from KHQ Channel 6 television. On March 15th, 2017, the Florida State Attorney's Office released a video of Ashad Russell, a Florida resident with a concealed handgun permit, fatally shooting another man, Edward Strother, who was attacking a...
Case involving law enforcement officer being protected: Rising Sun, February 20, 2017, CBS Channel 4 in Indianapolis, Indiana Indiana State Police say a Moores Hill man was killed by a person who witnessed the man fighting with an officer. The incident occurred around...
These cases just don't get national news coverage. A concealed handgun permit holder saved a police officer who was being ambushed in Arizona at I-10 in Tonopah (January 12, 2017). From the UK Daily Mail: When he started to block lanes and put out flares, a...