More than 40 members and associates of the Mexican mafia were arrested Thursday morning during an early-morning raid across Southern California.
Three people are dead after a hostage situation unfolded in Austin, Texas, including a SWAT officer who was shot and killed in a shootout with the suspect, police said.
Things came to an end following an hourslong standoff at a home near Houston. The suspect surrendered just before midnight when he rode out of the home on the arm of a SWAT vehicle.
The dog had killed two chickens, but a police use of force expert says the officer -- who is head of the Novato SWAT team and their expert in de-escalation -- should not have opened fire as the dog's elderly owners looked on, horrified.
The SWAT officers were serving a warrant on a suspect wanted for homicide and other violent offenses in Philadelphia.
Swatting is a prank call made to authorities with the express purpose of luring them to a location -- usually a home -- where they are led to believe a horrific crime has been committed or is in progress. This results in a forceful response from local police or SWAT teams, who have no way to know the call is a hoax.