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New York Police detective Wojciech Braszczok covers his face as he leaves a court room in New York on May 5, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Myron Penn, a prominent Alabama attorney and former Democratic state senator, is under fire for removing the Confederate flags that decorated soldiers' graves at an old Confederate cemetery in downtown Union Springs. (WSFA) **FILE**
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This 2013 booking photo provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department shows Austin Goodner while in juvenile detention. Goodner, 18, was shot and killed by Florida police on Sunday, May 17, 2015, after authorities said he argued with four people near a St. Petersburg city pool, shot a man on a bike in the arm and then shot a police officer in the leg at his home in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/St. Petersburg Police Dept. via AP)
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Retired tennis player Bob Hewitt, left, with his wife Delaille Hewitt, right, sit inside ahead of his sentencing at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, May 18, 2015. Hewitt, a former Grand Slam doubles tennis champion, was convicted in South African court of rape and sexual assault decades after the alleged assaults, and sentenced to six years in prison. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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Authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant Sunday, May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas. Authorities say that the shootout victims were members of rival biker gangs that had gathered for a meeting. (AP Photo/Jerry Larson)
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D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier (left) with Mayor Muriel Bowser, said that police are seeking a man seen in a brief surveillance video for questioning in connection with a fire at a home in Northwest Washington, Thursday, where four people were found dead. (Associated Press)
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People at the Central Texas MarketPlace watch a crime scene near the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant Sunday, May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas. Waco Police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton told KWTX-TV there were "multiple victims" after gunfire erupted between rival biker gangs at the restaurant. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP)
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Law enforcement officers, friends and family attend the funeral of Hattiesburg Police Department Officer Liquori Tate at the West Point Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Miss. on Saturday, May 16, 2015. Tate and Officer Benajmin Deen were killed in the line of duty a week earlier after pulling over a speeding car. (Eli Baylis/The Hattiesburg American via AP)
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In this photo taken Jan. 4, 2011, U.S Army Capt. Mathew Golsteyn is congratulated by fellow soldiers following the Valor Awards ceremony for 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, N.C. Golsteyn, stripped of a medal for heroism under fire and his right to call himself a Green Beret is fighting for his military career after accusations he tracked down and killed a suspected bomb-maker in Afghanistan. Though a criminal investigation failed to find remains of his alleged victim and didn’t result in charges against Golsteyn, he’s been targeted for possible dismissal from the Army and the consequent loss of veteran’s benefits with a less-than-honorable discharge. (James Robinson/The Fayetteville Observer via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT. NO SALES.
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National Edition News cover for May 16, 2015 - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gets death penalty for Boston Marathon bombing: In this photo provided by the Massachusetts State Police, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, bloody and disheveled with the red dot of a sniper's rifle laser sight on his head, emerges from a boat at the time of his capture by law enforcement authorities in Watertown, Mass., on April 19, 2013. (Associated Press/Massachusetts State Police, Sean Murphy) **FILE**
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In this courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, center, stands with his defense attorneys as a death by lethal injection sentence is read at the Moakley Federal court house in the penalty phase of his trial in Boston, Friday, May 15, 2015. The federal jury ruled that the 21-year-old Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death for his role in the deadly 2013 attack. (Jane Flavell Collins via AP)
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Gen. George S. Patton Jr., left, commander of the U.S. 15th Army, and his chief of staff, Maj. Gen. H.R. Gay, right, are pictured in an undated photo. (AP Photo) ** FILE **
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Current staffing for the Metropolitan Police Department is around 3,800 officers, but officials have said at least 4,000 are needed to safely patrol the District. (Associated Press/File)
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Current staffing for the Metropolitan Police Department is around 3,800 officers, but officials have said at least 4,000 are needed to safely patrol the District. (Associated Press/File)
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Two Baltimore correctional officers were charged and placed on leave Wednesday after looting snacks from a downtown 7-Eleven last month during riots spurred by the death of Freddie Gray, officials said. Tamika Cobb and Kendra Richard were caught on video on April 25 taking Slim Jims and Tostitos chips from the store on the corner of W. Baltimore and Howard streets, the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said, The Baltimore Sun reported. (Baltimore Police Department via The Baltimore Sun)
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Nelson County Sheriff Ed Mattingly said Monday that he's "glad" a suspect shot by a deputy on Sunday is white so that the department doesn't face racial backlash. (YouTube/Nelson County Gazette)
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President Barack Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stand for a moment of silence at the 34th Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service, Friday, May 15, 2015, on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington. The ceremony honors all law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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A public viewing was held May 15 at the Stadium Armory in D.C. for Lt. Kevin McRae, a D.C. firefighter who collapsed and died at the scene of an apartment fire. (D.C. Fire and EMS via Twitter)
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"If you're going to go and do alcohol and then show up at the White House and disturb a crime scene, you're out of here," said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz in a Thursday hearing. (Associated Press)
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Uniformed Secret Service Police officers stand watch at Lafayette Park near the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 14, 2015, during a lockdown. A federal law enforcement official says a man has been arrested after trying to launch a drone outside the White House fence. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
