Year: 2017

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(BRENTWOOD, N.Y.) -- President Donald Trump seemed to encourage police to be more violent in handling potential offenders during a speech to law enforcement officers on Friday."Please don't be too nice," he said to the audience in Long Island, New York.While the speech was largely focused on the fight against the gang MS-13, it appeared that Trump was directing his comments about police interactions with suspected criminals in […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- An man who was riding the Fire Ball attraction at the Ohio State Fair Wednesday evening when it malfunctioned described the deadly incident as a "terrifying" experience.Abdihakim Hussein, 19, was injured on the ride when it broke apart mid-air, but he didn't know it at first, he told ABC News on Friday. One teenager was killed and several others were injured in the incident.Hussein and his […]

iStock/Thinkstock(INDIANAPOLIS) -- An Indiana police lieutenant was shot and killed while trying to help at the scene of a car crash on Thursday, authorities said.The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said the death of Lt. Aaron Allan of the police department in Southport, just outside of Indianapolis, was the department's first line-of-duty death.The shooting happened Thursday at about 2:30 p.m., when Allan and an officer from the Homecroft Police responded to […]

U.S. Navy(WASHINGTON) -- The Naval Air Force Reserve has grounded its fleet of 23 C-130T transport aircraft until further notice amid the ongoing investigation into the deadly July 10 crash of a KC-130T in Mississippi that killed 16 service members.The Navy aircraft are similar to the Marine Corps Reserve's fleet of 12 KC-130Ts that were grounded Thursday out of an abundance of caution because of the investigation into that crash.“During […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A government surveillance video obtained by ABC News has shed new light on a tragic incident at the U.S.-Mexico border.The video shows that in 2013 two U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers appeared to encourage, or at least permit, a 16-year-old Mexican high school student to drink from a bottle that tests would later reveal contained concentrated liquid methamphetamine.The young man, Cruz Velazquez, died within two […]

iStock/Thinkstock(SAN DIEGO) -- A California woman who was attacked by a 10-foot great white shark earlier this year while surfing off the coast of San Diego spoke out about the harrowing experience for the first time in an exclusive interview with Good Morning America, saying she initially did not think it was real life."When I saw my leg on the board, that’s the image my mind gave me: a cartoon," […]