(On one occasion, at the direction of Atlantic City's prosecutor, four Coast Guard sailors were even arrested for felonious assault after killing a liquor smuggler during a confrontation with two "rumrunner" boats).
Every year, the FBI tracks "felonious killings" of police, in which officers are killed by injuries suffered in the line of duty.
Berkman was charged with six counts: felonious assault with the intent to kill Frick; felonious assault with the intent to kill Lawrence Leishman, who had been in Frick's office at the time of the attack; feloniously entering the offices of the Carnegie Steel Company on three occasions; and unlawfully carrying concealed weapons.
Half of the officers were killed in felonious incidents.
Fields is facing first-degree murder charges for killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer with his car, three counts of malicious wounding, three counts of aggravated malicious wounding, two counts of felonious assault, and one hit-and-run charge.
Twenty-seven officers were killed as a result of felonious acts in 2013, according to the FBI, the record low in recent decades.
In 2015, there were 41 officers killed in what the FBI called "felonious acts," which overwhelmingly involved officers fatally shot during law enforcement activities.
New FBI data released today finds that the number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty -- that is, killed with felonious intent by a suspected criminal -- plummeted to 27 in 2013, its lowest level in decades.
My brain is not totally off-base in its assumption that bananas are trying to kill me, but before I get to their murderous intentions, consider their felonious history.
The FBI releases a report on the number of law enforcement officers who die each year due to "felonious incidents in the line of duty". Earlier this year, the FBI released its preliminary statistics, which found that the number of law enforcement officers killed was up in 2014 over the year before.
