Josh Benner

Tag: police

  • Six stories that will warm your heart

    There’s often so much negativity in the news. But there are also a lot of good stories of people serving others, sacrificing for others, being good to others. I like to bookmark stories that I find especially heartwarming.

  • No charges filed in Alton Sterling death

    Of the many deaths we have footage of where police have used deadly force, there’s few that appear as egregious as the 2016 killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In the video, the officers have him held down. They’re on top of him. Sterling allegedly reached for his pocked (he was armed at…

  • The time I was pulled over by the highway patrolman and his dog

    I was driving back home to Illinois last night and was driving on the interstate in northwest Indiana. Suddenly, I see blue and red flashing lights. I think “Seriously? I’m not speeding. Do I have a tale light out?” It wasn’t the first time I’d ever been pulled over. At first, it didn’t strike me…