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CMPD’s BearCat — a vehicle for SWAT and military use — was blocking the entrance to a building with a pawn shop off W.T. Harris Boulevard, WSOC reported Monday morning.
A CMPD SWAT call in east Charlotte on Hunting Ridge Lane involved a man in a mental health crisis who fired at police officers Thursday night.
A SWAT team was called Monday morning when someone inside a convenience store suffered a mental health crisis, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said. One person was taken into custody ...
Channel 9 spoke with the head of CMPD’s SWAT team Wednesday about what goes through officers’ minds when they respond to calls.
Charlotte police say their officers were justified in shooting at a man who was suffering from a “mental health crisis” and cycling through four different personalities during a 30-hour SWAT ...
On Friday, CMPD said that as a result of a petition for its release, a Superior Court judge has reviewed and authorized CMPD to release the SWAT team’s body worn camera recordings from that day ...
CMPD says that at about 5 p.m., he stood in the front doorway with a handgun, and a SWAT officer “fired one round.” The man wasn’t hit by the round, and he went back inside the home ...
The BearCat went on its first mission in the early morning of May 3 when more than a dozen SWAT officers used it to apprehend a suspect for assault with a deadly weapon during a high-risk search ...