How to Use police officer in a Sentence

police officer

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  • As the driver draws the gun on the biker, a police officer can be seen rushing to the scene from across the street.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Elliott was the third San Diego police officer to be shot in the last 12 months.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The next morning, police officers saw the car and tried to pull the driver over, police said.
    — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • In the summer of 1964, a young Black man named James Powell was shot dead by a police officer, and Harlem burned.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 16 July 2023
  • The two men were at the bottom of the stairs when two San Francisco police officers arrived and one knocked on the front door.
    — Michael Finnegan, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • In Episode 1, the song starts within the first 10 minutes, as a child is writing down names for a police officer.
    — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
  • When the door opened, the gunman open fired on a squad of police officers, who were trapped on a cramped hotel floor with no space to take cover.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • That baby won't get to be a future PG police officer or live his best life.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Then, a couple of police officers show up and harass them.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The suspect dropped the handgun during the scuffle with the police officer, and a Target store employee kicked the gun away.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The school always has a former police officer on site when school is in session.
    — Savannah Tryens-Fernandes | Stryens-Fernandes@al.com, al, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Think about all these things that can be used to cross-examine and impeach a police officer.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The White police officers hit the Army man over the head, shot at him three times, and, eventually, arrested him.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Woodyard is one of three Aurora police officers and two paramedics charged in the death of McClain in 2019.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Two days later, police officers found Mr. Grant on a park bench, a telltale pink on his right hand, pants and sneakers.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The school of 1,700 students also relies on a squad of off-duty police officers.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The same year, the city paid almost $10 million to the families of two men who died in a freeway crash caused by an off-duty police officer.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The scene was cleared by about 3 p.m. Tustin police officers detained one person who walked away from the area where the firework went off, witnesses said.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • During a dispute about noise at a practice session, Mr. Knight swatted away the hand of a police officer.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The registration fee covers everything from the safety pins on bibs to the police officers along the course.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Amid the tumult, a police officer shot and killed Larry Payne, an unarmed sixteen-year-old boy.
    — Clarence B. Jones, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
  • At the the clerk magistrate’s hearing, a pair of police officers read from reports, the details of which had already been made public.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
  • Mack was pulled over by a Westchester County Parkway police officer more than two hours later, about 5 miles from the scene.
    — Jonathan Bandler, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Every year on Ramadan, tensions in Jerusalem reach their peak and police officers flood the 0.35-square-mile Old City in order to maintain calm.
    — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Things changed completely when a police officer friend of his called him from a basketball game.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • By the time police officers canvassed the area, the assailant had fled, but the incident had been captured on surveillance cameras.
    — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Whitefish is the home of white supremacist Richard Spencer and has only about 10 police officers.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Three Longview police officers fired back, hitting and killing Johnson.
    — Austindedios, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Dallas police officers summoned to the scene learned from neighbors that gunshots rang out from a house around 11 a.m. Saturday.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The next month, he’s accused of watching, and filming, as a fellow police officer threw a Black Lives Matter protester to the ground, according to the complaint.
    — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024

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