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Officer Kerrie Orozco, a 7-year veteran of the Omaha Police Department, and a member of the Gang Unit, was shot and killed on May 20, 2015. Officer Orozco was part of the Metro Area Fugitive Task Force, and was in the process of serving an arrest warrant when the suspect opened fire, striking Orozco; she was rushed to CHI Health Creighton ...
The Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919.The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers and civilians, including the attempted hanging of Mayor Edward Parsons Smith; and a public rampage by thousands of white rioters who set fire to the Douglas County ...
Nebraska Emergency Management Agency - Homeland Security. Nebraska Game and Parks Commission - conservation officers enforce Nebraska wildlife laws [4] Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center. Nebraska Public Service Commission - Transportation Investigators. Nebraska State Fire Marshal. Nebraska State Patrol.
The second of two former Black Panthers who always maintained their innocence in the 1970 bombing death of a white Omaha police officer has died in prison. A spokesman for the Nebraska Department ...
Police officials, advocates and community leaders attribute some of the decrease to Omaha 360 -- How one city cut gun violence in half and may become a model around the country Skip to main content
Rice–Poindexter case. David Rice (also known as Mondo we Langa; 1947 – March 11, 2016) and Edward Poindexter (died December 7, 2023) were African-American activists charged and convicted of the murder of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard. Minard died when a suitcase bomb containing dynamite exploded in a North Omaha home on August 17, 1970.
Proponents say Omaha has seen shootings fall by 74% over the past 15 years and its homicide rate fell to its lowest in 30 years. A nonprofit will see if the same methods can work for Kansas City.
In 1995, an African-American gang member murdered an Omaha police officer named Jimmy Wilson, Jr. The city responded by equipping every police car with a camera and giving North Omaha officers body armor. Later that year, arsonists tipped over and burned an African-American woman's car in East Omaha near the site of the 1981 arson. Both cases ...