Tag: Police

Opinion: Drunk driving warrants stricter sentences

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Zach Henson Editor-in-Chief AL.com reported last month that a man from Huntsville is facing up to two life sentences in May after pleading guilty to two murder charges.  While I’m sure he did not mean to kill a woman and her baby, he did decide to drive while intoxicated, a crime which I believe should be prosecuted more seriously than it is today and warrant stiffer consequences. This was not his first time driving under the influence. He was caught driving drunk twice before. Police estimate his blood alcohol content…

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Opinion: The police are not our enemy

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Editors Note: The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Tropolitan or its staff members. Sam Stroud Staff Writer Even though the recent Martin Luther King Jr. Day and events surrounding it highlighted the advances in racial relations since the 1960s, questions still seem to circle about police brutality. Some American citizens seem to think there is a faction of police officers who allow racial bias to command the way they conduct themselves on the job.  To…

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First Amendment is not an excuse to insult police officers

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Zach Henson Editor-in-Chief The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania upheld the conviction of Jamal Knox, who had been found guilty of threatening two Pittsburgh police officers in his rap song “F— the Police.” Knox, who performs under the pseudonym Mayhem Mal, was charged and convicted of threatening Officers Daniel Zeltner and Michael Kosko of the Pittsburgh Police Department but appealed the conviction on the basis of free speech. Knox was pulled over by Pittsburgh police officers in 2011 and was found to not have a valid driver’s license, according to court…

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‘Don’t shoot!’: police discuss knowing your rights

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Madina Seytmuradova Staff Writer The Troy chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organized a “Don’t Shoot!” know-your-rights seminar last Thursday that addressed the issues of police-civilian interactions. Miles Webster, a junior secondary education major from Moody and the vice president of the Troy NAACP, said it was about rights as well as etiquette. “It’s how to respond to certain situations, not as much avoid them, as knowing how to respond,” Webster said. The four speakers ­— including University Police Detective James Taylor and patrolman…

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University police officers equipped with body cams

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Justin Blowers Staff Writer The Troy University Police Department now has three officers equipped with body cameras, according to University Police Chief John McCall. McCall said that the officers have been using the cameras for about three months now. “It’s good to have some type of video backup anytime an officer goes on a call,” McCall said. “We wanted to have that for all our officers out there.” McCall said that the body cameras helped with identifying witnesses at the scene of the Homecoming shooting last semester (October 2016). “We…

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