The old media motto is “if it bleeds, it leads.” But today, I’m leading with a good news story of danger averted. Dan Hicks, a Raleigh PD officer, talked a man off the edge of a freeway overpass Wednesday night and gave him a hug. Officer Hicks explained to WRAL that the man in question “got a big old Dan Hicks bear hug, whether he wanted it or not. . . . [H]e was not going to be given the opportunity to go over that bridge again. He got to stand there with me for a second and get that hug. Call it tactical, call it compassionate, I think it was probably both.” Well done, Officer Hicks. In other news: Baltimore pays Freddie Gray’s family $6.4 million. Staying with police-related news, Baltimore has agreed to head off a civil suit by settling with the family of Freddie Gray, the young man who died in April as a result of injuries sustained while in police custody. The settlement is for $6.4 million, as WRAL notes here. The officers involving in the incident have been charged criminally but have not yet been tried. Jury recommends death sentence for former head of North Carolina KKK. As the Washington Post reports here, a Kansas jury has recommended a death sentence for Frazier Glenn Miller, a former Grand Dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Miller shot and killed three people at or near a Jewish center in Overland Park. He was motivated by [...]
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