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Police bodycam footage shows the arrest of a 45-year-old Shawn N. Mullarkey where she attempted to bite an officer and called him names. The video has racked up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. The woman tried to bite a Hinesdale Police Officer at her $1 million house in the 100 block of West Walnut Street. The police report on the incident states that the woman tells cops 'you are dead': Police." Police were there as Mullarkey was driving to her house with her children in the back seat of her vehicle. Officers said they were arresting her on a warrant charging her with domestic battery, where she is accused of hitting her ex-husband with her car. Mullarkey refused to get out of her car and closed the garage door while officers were inside. "You are under arrest," she was told. "I am not," she said. Officers then warned she would be "tased" if she did not get out of the car. They then removed her from the driver's seat, with her repeatedly yelling, "Take your hands off me!" As she was being taken out, she demanded to speak with her lawyer before she was taken away. She accused one of the officers of having "yanked" her. The officer defended himself, saying, "I yanked you because I told you that you were under arrest and to exit your vehicle." One of the officers told her, "You got a whole show for your neighbors here." She repeatedly called one of the officers a "d--k." "You are a m-----f-----. You are a sh---y human being," she said. The officer replied, "That's messed up." After she was put in the police car, she got out several times. "You are a piece of dirt that I wouldn't even piss on if you were on fire," Mullarkey told an officer. The officer said, "I smell the odor of alcohol on you." She responded, "That's my piss because I'm pissing on you." Then Mullarkey said the officer was the "worst part of society," with the officer replying, "I don't think so." When officers tried to get her back into a squad car, she tried to bite one of them. As an officer was getting ready to drive Mullarkey to the police station, she could be heard saying from inside the police car, "You are dead." The officer asked her to elaborate. She said the officer would be sued, adding, "You think you are so cool that you can beat up a girl. Good for you." After the squad car arrived at the police station, she refused to get out, and officers carried her out. Mullarkey was charged with felony aggravated DUI (her 3rd such violation), aggravated assault on an officer, resisting an officer and possessing alcohol while driving. Mullarkey was taken to the DuPage County Jail.

Seattle, WA Surveillance video showing the horrific death of Alisia DeCoteau at the Ellis Court Apartments in Seattle last month. Rickesha Denise Overton was charged with Murder in the First Degree and Assault in the Second Degree. Court documents show the women knew each other and were friends at one point. But witnesses say they were arguing that evening. As for the shooting, the surveillance video shows Overton's gun jamming as she allegedly tries to fire more shots Cons sav she also pointed the pistol at horrified neighbors before officers arrived. The suspect initially told officers, "She came into my apartment. It was self-defense. I had to shoot her." But later told police, "She's not even dead." "I don't care if you give me life. I just want to go to Alisia's funeral," Overton added. Authorities say this was not the first time Overton allegedly attacked DeCoteau. Reports show cops were called to the same apartment building on January 1st, 2024 at about 2:35 p.m. and arrested Overton for assaulting DeCoteau. DeCoteau leaves behind a sister who she was very close with. She also had other loved ones, friends, and a young daughter.

Los Angeles, CA Video recorded on a bystanders cellphone shows a man charging at police with a hatchet. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the shooting occurred around 2 p.m. on November 30th, 2023. Officers were responding to a call for an assault with a deadly weapon. Video of the incident shows the man walking quickly toward officers with a large hatchet in his hand. He appears to be shouting at officers as they order him to drop the hatchet. The officers are then seen deploying less lethal weapons, but the man continues charging toward them with the hatchet raised until at least one officer fires his service weapon, hitting the man. The man was transported to the hospital in critical condition, according to the report.

New Haven, CT A Connecticut State Trooper is not allowed any public contact pending internal investigation. After a video appeared online showing him berating a driver in an expletive-fueled outburst that derided the general public and expressed how he can’t wait to retire. The driver also accused the trooper of threatening to throw him off a bridge, but that could not be verified from the video because both men were outside the car and the trooper was nearly inaudible because of traffic noise. The State Police Commander, Col. Stavros Mellekas, said the trooper has been placed on paid administrative duty, with no contact with the public, pending an internal affairs investigation. Mellekas did not name the trooper, but the video shows his name tag, which identifies him as Trooper Matthew Spina. Mellekas called the trooper’s behavior “disturbing” and not reflective of state police personnel. The unidentified driver, who posted the video on YouTube, wrote he was pulled over by Spina on Monday on the Interstate 95 Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in New Haven, after “flipping off” Spina for “driving erratically,” not knowing Spina was a state trooper. The video shows Spina was not wearing a mask or gloves amid the corona virus pandemic. It recorded the following interaction: Spina approaches the passenger door window, and the driver asks Spina why he was tailgating another driver and speeding. Spina says he was running the license plate and asks the driver why he was speeding. The driver says he was only going 60, and Spina explains the speed limit is 40. After berating the driver for questioning his actions before the traffic stop, Spina says, “Unbelievable. It just never ($#&*@%) ends in this ($#&*@%) job. I’ve got 14 months to retire. I can’t ($#&*@%) wait to be done.” Spina then says state police are understaffed. “There’s a ($#&*@%) clue to the public — what a bunch of ($#&*@%) you are,” he says. Spin takes a plastic cup ashtray out of the driver’s car, throws it to the ground and stomps on it. He then goes to the front of the car where the driver is handcuffed. This is when the driver said Spina threatened to throw him off the bridge if he ever saw him again. Spina then says, “You think I’m kidding? Don’t you ever ($#&*@%) with me again.” The encounter ends with Spina walking back to his vehicle without citing the driver, and the driver asking him to be safe. Mellekas said troopers, like everyone else, are under stress because of the pandemic. “For our troopers, they are dealing with the impact on their personal lives along with workplace stressors of being on the frontline,” Mellekas said. “While not an excuse, we are sensitive to this and also referred the trooper to our employee assistance program.”