Hades was one of the primary Olympian deities and brother to Zeus and Poseidon. He was a chthonic god, meaning a god of the earth with special power over the dead. He was sometimes called “Zeus below the earth” in deference to the power he wielded and to the size of his kingdom. There was a cultural aversion to invoking the god’s name, instead calling him by his many epithets like Host-of-Many or He-Who-Leads-Away. He was also commonly referred to as Plouton or Pluto, meaning wealthy, most likely due to the fact that precious metals were found beneath the earth and so would be part of his domain. This name was also used by the Romans, who amalgamated Hades with their own original god of the underworld, Dis Pater.   Unlike many of his siblings, such as Zeus or Demeter, Hades had no widespread cult of worship. People feared to speak his name out loud for fear that he would take notice of them. Hades had very few of his own myths, but he featured in many stories of Greek heroes such as Heracles, Theseus, and Orpheus. In these stories he acted as an antagonistic force for the heroes to overcome.   1. Birth and Ascension of Hades Rhea Outwitting Saturn, drawing by Edme Bouchardon, 18th century. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Hades was born to the Titan Kronos and the mother goddess Rhea. He was one of six children and the eldest of their three sons. However, due to a prophecy given to Kronos describing how he would be overthrown by one of his sons in the same way he overthrew his own father, Ouranos, the Titan swallowed his children as soon as they were born. He gulped down five of the six. Only Zeus, the youngest, escaped due to a clever trick by Rhea, who swaddled a stone in place of the baby Zeus for Kronos to swallow. Zeus grew up on Crete and returned to eventually overthrow his father. Kronos regurgitated his children in the reverse order he swallowed them, so the eldest son Hades became the youngest.   Bronze cast of Pluto (Hades) and Cerberus by Jacopo Sansovino, ca. 1588. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Hades then joined Zeus in a war against their father and the other Titans, known as the Titanomachy. They freed the Cyclopes from Tartaros to aid them, and as a gift, they gave Hades his signature helmet of invisibility. Zeus was gifted the thunderbolt and Poseidon his trident, and with these weapons, they defeated their father and usurped him. The brothers divided up his powers among themselves, deciding which domain they would rule by casting lots. Zeus drew the heavens, Poseidon the seas, and Hades the underworld (Apollodorus, 2nd century CE).   2. Abduction of Persephone Terracotta hydria depicting The Rape of Persephone, 4th century BCE. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   The central myth about Hades involves his abduction and rape of Persephone, daughter of Demeter. The earliest recounting of this myth comes from the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed sometime in the mid-seventh century BCE. The hymn recounts the abduction, as well as Demeter’s travels across the earth as she grieved for her lost daughter.   As the story goes, Zeus gave Persephone as a bride to Hades, both without her knowledge or consent. At Zeus’ instructions, Gaia laid a trap for the young goddess in the form of a beautiful meadow. Persephone was playing in the meadow, picking flowers and dancing with nymphs when she spied the most beautiful flower she’d ever seen. When she reached out to grab it, the earth opened up and out sprung Hades on his chariot. He snatched the goddess up, ignoring her cries for help, and took her away to the underworld. Demeter heard her daughter’s cries and, upon learning that Hades had taken her with Zeus’ permission, she went into a self-imposed exile. Without Demeter, the world fell into a terrible famine that was only ended by Zeus’ intervention.   Red-Figure Vase Painting of Hades, Persephone, and Hermes in the Underworld Palace, 4th century BCE. Source: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg   The king of the gods sent Hermes into the underworld to convince Hades to allow Persephone to return to Olympus. Hades acquiesced to Zeus’ demand and bid Persephone to go back to her mother, but before she could leave he secretly made her eat a pomegranate seed. This simple act would have significant consequences. When Demeter was reunited with her daughter, she sensed that something was wrong and asked her,   “My child, surely you haven’t eaten any food while you were below, have you? Speak up, don’t hide it, so that both of us may know. For, if so, you may dwell with me and your father, the dark-clouded son of Kronos, coming up from hateful Hades and honoured by all the immortals. But if you have eaten any, going back under the caverns of the earth you will live there for a third part of the seasons in a year[…]” (López-Ruiz, 2014, p.487)   By eating the pomegranate seed Persephone became bound to return to the underworld for a third of every year. This myth served to explain the cycle of seasons and how the gods played a role in these natural phenomena. Persephone returning to the underworld to take her place as Hades’ queen brings the onset of winter, and her return to Olympus marks the start of spring.   3. Leuce and Minthe Marble bust of a goddess, 4th century BCE. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Before Persephone, Hades had for his mistress a nymph by the name of Minthe. She was the daughter of the river Cocytus, one of the rivers that flowed through the underworld.   Ovid (1st century BCE) gave a brief mention to this story in Book X of his Metamorphoses, when Venus (Aphrodite) said to Persephone, “[…] were you not once allowed to change a young woman to fragrant mint[?]” Oppian, a second-century author, gives a slightly fuller account. He wrote that Mint, written in Greek as Minthe, was Hades’ mistress before his abduction of Persephone. Afterwards she became jealous and complained loudly, saying that she was more beautiful than Persephone and that Hades would eventually come back to her. Demeter, Persephone’s mother, flew into a rage at hearing her daughter so disrespected and trampled the nymph underfoot. From that spot grew the herb that bears her name.   Leuce was a nymph and one of the daughters of Oceanus. There is little known about her except that Hades fell in love with her and carried her off to the underworld. She lived out her days with him there, and when she died, Hades sprouted a leucen tree in Elysium, the fields of the dead, in her memory. Heracles was said to have crowned himself with the leaves of this tree when he returned from the underworld.   4. Hades and the Labours of Heracles Engraving of Hercules Capturing Cerberus, from “The Twelve Labors of Hercules”, by Sebald Beham, 1545. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Hades features twice in the mythos of Heracles. For the hero’s twelfth and final labour, Heracles was tasked with capturing Cerberos, the three-headed hound that guarded the entrance to the underworld. When Heracles finally made it to the House of Hades, he asked the god for the beast and Hades presented him with a challenge. If he could overcome Cerberos without the use of his weapons, then he could have it. Using his bare hands, Heracles wrestled the three-headed hound to submission despite being bitten by the dragon that was the beast’s tail. He carried the hound back through the underworld and presented it to King Eurystheus, completing the final labor. He then returned Cerberos to Hades.   The god encountered Heracles one more time after this. In a brief passage in Book V of The Iliad, Homer (8th century BCE) writes of how Heracles injured Hades by running him through with a spear:   “Even tremendous Hades had to endure that flying shaft like all the rest, when the same man, the son of thunder-shielded Zeus, shot him in Pylos – there with the troops of battle dead – and surrendered Death to pain. But Hades made his way to craggy Olympus, climbed to the house of Zeus, stabbed with agony, grief-struck to the heart, the shaft driven into his massive shoulder grinding down his spirit…” (ln.449-457)   Hades joined the battle on the side of the Pylians, but was forced to retreat after sustaining the injury. According to Pausanias, only the people of Elis worshiped Hades, which would explain why he came to their aid.   5. Punishments of Hades Amphora depicting the return of Persephone from Hades. On the right, Sisyphos endures his eternal punishment 6th century BCE. Source: The British Museum, London   A portion of the myths surrounding Hades have to do with the punishments the god inflicts on mortals who have offended him. One such mortal was Sisyphos, a mythological king of Corinth and grandfather to the hero Bellerophon. In one version of his story Sisyphos betrays one of Zeus’ secrets, so the god sent Hades to collect him and bring him to the underworld. The king managed to trick Hades and chain him, saving his own life but also preventing anyone else on earth from dying as long as the god remained chained. Ares intervened and freed Hades, then turned Sisyphos over to him. In another version of the story it is Thanatos, the god of death, who is sent to collect the king and subsequently chained.   Before he died, Sisyphos told his wife Merope not to perform the customary funerary rites and to throw his body into the city square. When he reached the underworld he tricked Hades, or in another version, Persephone, into allowing him to return to the world of the living to punish his wife for her blatant disrespect of his body. He was allowed to return, but the crafty Sisyphos never went back down to the underworld. When he finally died of old age the gods hadn’t forgotten what he had done. Hades condemned him to an eternity of pushing a massive boulder up a hill, only for it to inevitably roll back down before it ever reached the top.   Red-Figure Calyx-Krater depicting mythological punishments. Above left-right, Hades, Pirithous, Theseus, Heracles, Hermes. Attributed to Nekyia Painter, 5th century BCE. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Greek heroes Theseus and Pirithous also spent time in the underworld suffering one of Hades’ punishments. The two men resolved that they would each marry a daughter of Zeus; Theseus carried off Helen of Sparta, but Pirithous was more ambitious. He vowed to take Persephone as his wife. The two men descended into the underworld to find her, traversing all the dangers until they finally arrived at the House of Hades. The god invited them inside for a banquet and bid them to sit down on two stone chairs. When they did, they became stuck, and they were bound to the chairs by coils of snakes. Hades knew of their plan and knew that it was Pirithous’ idea, so while he eventually allowed Theseus to escape with the help of Heracles, Pirithous remained imprisoned forever.   The bard Orpheus, one of Jason’s Argonauts, was another who descended into the underworld, but his motivation was love. The first-century BCE poet Ovid recounts the story in Book X of his Metamorphoses. Overcome with grief by the death of his wife, Eurydice, he went down to the underworld to ask Hades to restore her to life. He made this request in the form of a song, and when he was done, all the spirits and tormented dead wept, and neither Persephone nor Hades could deny him.   Hades granted his request, bringing forth Eurydice, who was still limping from the wound that had killed her, on the condition that he not look back at all until he had exited the underworld. The bard and his wife journeyed back upwards, but as he neared the exit Orpheus feared that Eurydice wouldn’t make it all the way with her injury. He turned back, and as he did, his wife slipped back into the underworld for a second time. Orpheus begged the ferryman at the River Styx to allow him back into the underworld, but he was denied.   Orpheus, by Antonio Canova, 1777. Source: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg   While Hades was not the protagonist in any of his own myths, he was featured in many of the most well-known stories from antiquity. While he mainly kept to himself in the underworld, the stories of heroes often bring them into contact with the world of the dead. He was a force to overcome or to bargain with, and any who cheated him found themselves eternally tormented. For while some escaped, they always returned to him in the end.   References   Apollodorus. (1st or 2nd century CE). The Library of Greek Mythology (R. Hard, trans). Oxford University Press, 1997   López-Ruiz, C. (Ed.). (2014). Gods, Heroes, and Monsters: A Sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in Translation. Oxford University Press   Homer. (8th or 7th century BCE). The Iliad (R. Fagles, trans). Penguin Books USA Inc., 1990   Hesiod. (8th century BCE). Theogony and Works and Days (D. Wender, trans). Penguin Group, 1973   Ovid. (43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.). Metamorphoses (C.Martin, trans). W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005

Its Western allies want Kiev to achieve victory in the conflict with Russia, because it would give them the opportunity to “acquire and divide” Ukraine’s wealth according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. During an [...] The post Hungarian PM Warns That Western War Hawks Want Ukraine’s Resources appeared first on The People's Voice.

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Who knew that a tiger stalking his prey could be so beautiful? A keeper at Cedar Cove Tiger Park managed to film one of these animals sneaking up on him while his back was turned. It’s a good thing that there was a fence in between them, because this big cat seemed like a pretty skilled hunter! Steve Klein’s footage of Mohan the tiger’s stealthy approach is completely mesmerizing. Of course, in order to get a video of the tiger stalking him, Steve had to have his back turned. So, he filmed the encounter over his shoulder. It worked like a charm! As soon as the keeper looked the other way, Mohan slowly prepared to strike. His patient, graceful movements are amazing to watch! “Striking in his focus, Mohan gives an excellent example of stealthy approach as his prey’s awareness is turned towards and away from him,” writes Cedar Cove Tiger Park in their caption. “Using the cover of ambient noise and adjusting his path to remain outside his prey’s field of view, were it not for the chain link and a backwards facing camera this would have been a clean kill.” This tiger’s stealth will send chills down your spine. As the tiger stalked his keeper, he kept his eyes on the target with laser focus. Although his steps were slow, each one seemed incredibly calculated. Commenters were fascinated by Mohan’s prowess. Many even pointed out particular moments where they could see the animal using his environment to maximize his sneakiness! Screengrab from YouTube “0:47 Anyone else notice here that the tiger made its biggest gain of distance when there was a loud noise to mask its footsteps?” wrote one user. “It’s both brilliant and terrifying.” Another added, “Notice how he feels for sticks or anything that might make noise before he actually puts his paws down, and back feet step in his front paws tracks for the same reason, smart animals.” What an incredible privilege to witness this shrewd tiger stalking his prey from the safety of our own homes! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Keeper Captures Tiger Stalking Him Ever So Slowly As His Back Is Turned appeared first on InspireMore.

Hmm ... fascinating, but a bit un-American

A new explanation has been offered for the reflective signals that were once acclaimed as evidence for a lake of liquid water under the ice sheet at the Martian south pole. Without further data, we cannot definitively state the cause of the reflections– but given what else we know, the exciting idea of a subsurface lake appears exceptionally unlikely.Liquid water on Mars, even deep underground, would be one of the most thrilling developments possible in the search for extraterrestrial life. We’ve learned the outer solar system is packed with moons with internal oceans, but even getting a spacecraft to fly by them is a slow and expensive exercise, let alone drilling down. Something on Mars would not only be much more convenient, but could preserve a record of the time when an entire ocean existed on the surface.So the announcement in 2018 of radar reflections coming from under the Martian southern ice cap, which were interpreted as a large buried lake,  was the ultimate case of “huge if true” for astrobiologists. Sadly, the if was doing a lot of work. Now it has been shown that layers of ice mixed with dust could produce similar reflections.The initial reports of a buried lake were based on signals from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) radar bouncing back from 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) underground. These reflections spanned an area 20 kilometers (12 miles) across, and the team that discovered them claimed the water needed to make them had to be at least a few centimeters deep. Follow-up work found similar signals more widely.Subglacial lakes exist on Earth, and the presence of all that protective ice and dust could prevent swift evaporation, as would happen to any water near the Martian surface. Anything this potentially important is going to be subject to considerable scrutiny. The team that made the finding considered several alternative explanations prior to publication, including a layer of carbon dioxide ice or very cold water ice, but claimed both would produce a weaker signal. However, according to new analysis, layers of dusty water ice with small variations in composition and layer spacing could cause the radar waves to constructively interfere in ways that match the observations. This sort of interference is usually represented by analogy with water waves passing through two channels in a breakwater, "I can't say it's impossible that there's liquid water down there, but we're showing that there are much simpler ways to get the same observation without having to stretch that far, using mechanisms and materials that we already know exist there," said Dr Daniel Lalich of Cornell University in a statement. "Just through random chance you can create the same observed signal in the radar."The presence of water ice on Mars has been known for decades, and rovers have provided evidence for the once-controversial idea that the planet used to be quite wet. Consequently, the idea of a buried lake was not considered out of the question. However, Lalich and colleagues are not the first scientists to raise doubts.For one thing, Mars is so cold – particularly at the poles – that even deep underground there are doubts water could stay liquid, no matter how salty it is. The more examples of this reflection that were found, the less likely it became that a surviving magma hotspot was providing the warmth required.Although clays and a revived carbon dioxide ice  explanation have been revived as alternatives, neither matches all the data MARSIS and other orbiters have provided, however. Lalich also says previous work relied on fairly simple models of radar behavior on Mars, and that his team has represented reality more closely. They generated thousands of random scenarios for ice layers, all consistent with the conditions we know exist, and changed the composition and spacing of the layers in plausible ways.When the layers’ spacing was too small for the instrument reading them to resolve, the result was constructive interference, with peaks and troughs amplified. The peaks would appear as bright patches, which could easily be interpreted as subsurface water, the authors concluded. The patches would be distributed randomly compared to the thickness of ice above or subsurface conditions, consistent with the MARSIS data, but surprising if liquid water really was present."The idea that there would be liquid water even somewhat near the surface would have been really exciting," Lalich said. "I just don't think it's there."The study is published open access in the journal Science Advances.

A new theory by researchers suggests that among us live the remnants of an advanced ancient human civilization that managed to survive. Aliens living among us and secretly piloting UFOs or hiding underground sounds like a science fiction movie script. However, in fact, this is the content of a new article by scientists about the existence of “crypto-earth creatures,” reports IFLScience . In a new paper, a team of scientists from the Harvard Human Flourishing Program and Montana Tech University argue that there might be intelligent crypto-terrestrial creatures living on Earth, hidden from human eyes. They are believed to live underground or in the vicinity of our planet, for example on the Moon. The study’s authors suggest that these intelligent crypto-terrestrial beings may in fact be responsible for many unidentified aerial phenomena typically attributed to intergalactic aliens. Note that the scientists’ work has not yet been peer-reviewed and published as a preprint. Scientists also believe that “crypto-terrestrial beings” could potentially be UFO pilots. They are believed to represent the remnants of an ancient, advanced human civilization that was largely destroyed long ago, such as by a flood, but has continued to exist as remnants. The authors of the article claim that these ancient superhumans may live in volcanoes or deep under the ocean. Moreover, the team claims that the remains of this ancient civilization seem to have been exposed by Albert Einstein’s former assistant, Dr. Shirley Wright, who claimed that she and the boss were invited to examine ” biological entities” recovered from a supposed UFO in 1947. Nearly 50 years later, Wright revealed that the pilots were actually just humans, but in an “advanced form.” Wright also claimed that this type of superhuman still lives among us, but lurks beneath the surface of the planet. In their article, scientists also claim that there are several subtypes of crypto-earth creatures. For example, these could be highly developed primates or reptiles that store their flying machines under volcanoes. Researchers claim that the Popocatepetl volcano in central Mexico and Mount Shasta in California are “hot spots for UFO sightings” and have therefore been identified as possible “habitats” of ancient and intelligent creatures. At the same time, reports by naval personnel of unidentified underwater objects moving at incredible speeds have sparked speculation that some of the crypto-terrestrial creatures may actually live on the ocean floor. In their paper, the authors also cite claims from Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who was not involved in the new study but has previously argued that the Moon may actually be a crypto-Earth base and home to a variety of creatures and their spacecraft. However, the team also claims that the pilots of most UFOs can hide in plain sight and are aliens who have mastered the art of merging with humans. A The authors of the new work acknowledge the many shortcomings of their assumptions, but insist that the idea should not be completely rejected. According to the study’s authors, the probability of crypto-earth creatures existing today is only about 10%, but it is not at all impossible. The post UAPs may be evidence of ancient Cryptoterrestrials secretly living on Earth appeared first on Anomalien.com.

It was reported earlier this year that physical attacks against New York Police Department officers reached unprecedented levels. Experts noted to the New York Post that anti-cop rhetoric and woke policies emboldening criminals have been fueling the rising number of attacks against cops.Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Hendry told the paper that "well over 5,000 cops were attacked and injured last year" but that they "didn’t come out of nowhere. This dangerous environment has been building for years. ... It’s not going to get better until those who attack police officers are consistently prosecuted and kept in jail. And that won’t happen unless New Yorkers keep speaking up to demand an end to the chaos.”'Let 'em whup his ass! Let 'em whup his ass!'A 28-year-old female NYPD officer added to the Post that "everyone wants to fight.” She said she was assaulted while handcuffing a shoplifting suspect — and while the officer added that she sprained her hand in the incident, the suspect was released from jail the same day.The following are 10 gut-wrenching instances when thugs brutally attacked and injured police. In one heartbreaking case, an officer died just a few days after he was pummeled.Punk on parole accused of punching cop in face, breaking his nose — and judge releases suspect with no bailA male with a long criminal record who was out on parole was accused of punching a Yonkers, New York, police officer in the face last September, breaking the cop's nose. But despite assault charges against the suspect and the district attorney's request for $150,000 bail, a judge decided to release the suspect with no bail, WCBS-TV reported. Police answered a Sept. 6 call concerning an unresponsive man on the sidewalk near Cypress Street and Yonkers Avenue, the station said. Officers on the scene tried to convince 39-year-old Johnny McCray to sit in an ambulance — and then McCray suddenly hauled off and punched a male officer in the nose, WCBS reported. According to the Yonkers Times, McCray was on parole through 2027 over a 2017 attempted robbery conviction for which he served most of his five-year prison sentence. The paper added that McCray had six felony and seven misdemeanor convictions on his record dating back over 20 years and had a history of not making court appearances. The punched officer went on leave after his injury, WCBS said, adding that he had just transferred to Yonkers from Bedford, which the station described as a "quiet community in northern Westchester." The judge reportedly decided on a no-bail release with GPS monitoring as the best way to guarantee McCray would return to court.Trio of siblings convicted of aggravated battery against a police officer — and it all started with a stop sign violationAn officer with the Aurora, Illinois, police department on June 21, 2021, conducted a traffic stop for a stop sign violation, the Kane County State's Attorney's Office said. Paul Sherrod Taylor was driving the car, and his sisters — Jennifer M. Taylor and Sheba A. Taylor — were in the vehicle. Within seconds of the stop, Sheba Taylor exited the vehicle and refused to re-enter it despite the officer's orders, and then Paul Sherrod Taylor exited the car, aggressively approached and threatened the officer, and refused to re-enter the car as well. Paul Sherrod Taylor shoved the officer, who was trying to handcuff him, and fled. The officer chased him on foot, after which Paul Sherrod Taylor stopped, turned, and aggressively faced off with the officer by putting up his fists and getting in a fighting stance while yelling at the officer to “keep running, boy.” The officer decided to wait for backup, but as he turned to walk toward his squad car, the Taylor sisters attacked him and repeatedly struck him. A police news release said the two female passengers began striking the officer with closed fists and kicking his body and head. The release states that the officer heard a male voice and then was struck repeatedly in the head from several angles, and a female passenger placed her forearm around the officer’s neck and applied significant force to his windpipe, causing him to lose the ability to breathe. Paul Sherrod Taylor called 911 and threatened the officer to a dispatcher, stating multiple times that he would “kill” the officer unless police arrived immediately, and he was heard repeatedly screaming at the officer that “I’m going to kill you, bitch," the state attorney general's office said. Arriving officers saw Sheba Taylor sitting on the officer's chest and neck as Jennifer Taylor held him down; the arriving officers had to physically remove them. You can check out police video of the incident here. The Taylor sisters each were sentenced to 120 days of imprisonment in the Kane County jail, 200 hours of community service, and four years of probation for committing aggravated battery against the officer. Their brother received a three-year sentence in the state Department of Corrections for aggravated battery to a police officer, threatening a public official, aggravated assault of a police officer, and resisting a peace officer, the state's attorney's office added.Thug beats cop's face bloody in brutal attack livestreamed on Facebook while laughing onlookers encourage suspectA North Carolina police officer was airlifted to a hospital after he was beaten while trying to make an arrest in October 2020 — and the attack was livestreamed on Facebook, left his face bloody, and featured laughing onlookers. The video lasted 11 minutes, WPDE reported, adding that the officer — who was repeatedly punched in the face — asked a man for assistance, but the man refused. While the video shows one man pulling the attacker away from the officer, another man is heard saying, "Let 'em whup his ass! Let 'em whup his ass!" Authorities charged Jamel Alphonso Rogers with assault with a deadly weapon with intentions to kill while inflicting serious injuries, kidnapping, and two counts of resisting a public officer, the station said. The officer suffered a broken nose and several facial cuts, WBTW-TV reported.Suspect who allegedly helped beat up NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed officer, other cops amid Brooklyn Bridge protest released without bail — (@) A bloody brawl broke out on the Brooklyn Bridge between violent protesters and New York City Police Department officers in July 2020 during which eight officers were injured, including a sergeant, lieutenant, and Chief of Department Terence Monahan, the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed officer. One police officer lost consciousness during the incident. Lt. Richard Mack with the department's Strategic Response Group was struck several times in the face, resulting in the fracture of his orbital bones and 12 stitches on his face. Quran Campbell, 25, was accused of physically attacking Mack, Monahan, and another officer — but he was released without bail after his arraignment on assault charges in Manhattan criminal court. Monahan said morale among NYPD officers is "as low as it's been in a long time," adding to Fox News that "on the street corners, there is a feeling that they don't have to listen to the police, and that they're willing to fight the police officers."Officer beaten so severely in sneak attack that he was found in a pool of blood and with a dent in his forehead; he died soon afterCpl. Keith Heacook of the Delmar (Del.) Police Department responded alone to a call about a fight in a home in April 2021, after which he was found unconscious in a pool of blood, apparently having been bludgeoned with his own baton, which was missing from its holster, a police source told Blaze News. Heacock was repeatedly hit so violently that there was a dent in his forehead, the source told Blaze News. A witness in the home reportedly claimed to have seen suspect Randon Wilkerson "throat-stomping" the officer. Heacock died a few days later, and Wilkerson — who was convicted of killing Heacook — was sentenced in December 2023 to two consecutive life sentences for murder charges and over 200 years for other offenses, DelawareOnline reported. The victim's son, Matthew, was 12 at the time of his father's murder and said in an impact statement that he "curled in a ball on the floor and cried for what seemed like hours" after he received the tragic news, the outlet added.Male caught on police bodycam video charging at female officer, striking her with claw hammerPolice in Middletown, Connecticut, said Detective Karli Travis was investigating a complaint about noise and broken glass at a residence around 6:30 a.m. Aug. 12, 2023. Travis' bodycam video shows a man later identified as 52-year-old Winston Tate charging at the officer with a claw hammer. Authorities said Tate struck Travis with the hammer at least four times, Fox News reported. Travis responded by shooting Tate several times. Tate was charged with attempted first-degree assault, second-degree assault, assault on a police officer, and interfering with police. He was out on probation for assaulting another officer and had at least 30 prior arrests — including a third attack on an officer – and 14 convictions within the past six years, Fox News added, citing court records. He was jailed on more than $1 million bail, the cable news network said. The detective suffered significant bruising and also was recovering from a gunshot wound to her hand, Fox News said.Thug smashes glass bottle on NYPD officer's head in unprovoked attack caught on bodycam video; suspect was arrested twice before for assaulting copsThe incident took place around 4:50 a.m. July 18, 2021, as a 67th Precinct officer stood on a street corner in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, WABC-TV reported. Bodycam video shows the suspect walking toward the officer and speaking, after which the officer raises his right hand in an apparent attempt to prevent the suspect from getting any closer to him. Seconds later, it appears the suspect moves closer to the officer, after which the officer appears to move the suspect backward with his right hand. The suspect reacts by taking a swing at the officer with a glass bottle, the station said. Police said officers caught up with the suspect and arrested him a block away, WABC reported. The attacked officer needed staples to close a wound to the left side of his head, the station said, adding that he also was cut on his hand, elbow, and left knee. The suspect — 27-year-old Tyshaun Holloway of Hackensack, New Jersey — was charged with assault, menacing, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, and criminal possession of a weapon, WABC reported. The station said Holloway was arrested twice in 2016 for assaulting officers in the Bronx and that he also has been arrested for two attempted robberies, making terroristic threats, and fare evasion.Woman charged with aggravated battery against 4 Chicago cops is released 1 day after arrest — the first day cash bail is eliminated across IllinoisEsmeralda Aguilar, 24, was arrested after the incident that took place at 2:38 a.m. Sept. 17, 2023, in the 200 block of North Wabash Avenue, police said. Aguilar shot pepper spray toward a group of officers during Mexican Independence Day festivities in the Loop, CWB Chicago reported, adding that two officers were hospitalized. Aguilar was released the day after her arrest — the same day the Pretrial Fairness Act — part of the controversial SAFE-T Act — went into effect, Fox News said. The new law allows the release of charged individuals if they don't pose a danger to the community or are flight risks, the cable news network added.After a separate incident on the same weekend, prosecutors charged Arturo Rodriguez, 46, with felony aggravated battery of a peace officer, the Chicago Tribune reported. They alleged Rodriguez on Sept. 17, 2023, hit a police officer lying on the ground in the back of the head with a wooden flagpole as officers tried to pursue and arrest two teens, the paper said, citing court records. The Tribune, citing a police report, said officers had been blocking traffic at the corner of West 26th Street and South Homan Avenue before the 1 a.m. attack. Vehicles with flags were in the streets throughout the neighborhood of Little Village for Mexican Independence Day, the paper said.Thug takes swing at cop's face, knocks her flat on her back amid suspected shoplifting; bone in officer's face brokenA male was caught on video taking a swing at a New York City police officer's face and knocking her flat on her back outside a Duane Reade pharmacy in Manhattan's Murray Hill neighborhood in December 2021. You can watch surveillance video of the attack here. The clip shows the officer blocking the doorway and apparently speaking to the suspect when he grabs the officer, shoves her away, and exits through the doorway. The officer fights back and grabs the suspect as he continues to attempt to get away, but the suspect turns and punches the officer in the face, sending her tumbling backward and landing feet away and through the entrance of the store on East 34th Street. The officer suffered a fractured bone in her face and cuts to her ear, WABC-TV reported, adding that she was taken to a hospital in stable condition following the attack.Mob swarms, physically attacks cop, punching and kicking him, after he responded alone to shots-fired call; one thug cackles that he caught beatdown on videoThe incident took place on the night of June 3, 2021, in Jacksonville, Florida. Individuals in a crowd that the officer approached surrounded him and pushed him to the ground, punching and kicking him and shouting expletives at him. A video news report shows part of the attack captured on cellphone video, and the person who recorded it reportedly ran off laughing about the attack and how he caught it on video. Authorities arrested 23-year-old Jermisha Ramsey in connection with the attack and charged her with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and street fighting. WTLV-TV reported that the officer suffered "multiple abrasions" in the attack. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!