The family of a 77-year-old woman dragged from her car during a traffic stop by police in Texas says a formal apology and anger-management training for the officer is needed to make things right, NBCDFW.com reported.

Lynn Bedford's videotaped arrest has gone viral, sparking opinions across the country. The video shows Sgt. Gene Geheb pulling Bedford, of Cleburne, from her sports utility vehicle after she did not hand over her license and refused to get out of the vehicle.

Her granddaughter, Aubrey McQue, sought the video from Keene police and made it public.

"There was 19 seconds from when he first initially asked her for her driver's license to when he laid his hands on her -- 19 seconds," she said.

The video shows that the officer requested Bedford's license four times before telling her that he would take her to jail if she did not give it to him.

Read more from NBCDFW.com

After Bedford told him, "Well, go ahead," he opened her car door, grabbed her arm and asked her to step out of the vehicle 10 times. He pulled her from the vehicle after she said, "I will not."

McQue said the officer's use of force was excessive.

"The video does speak for itself," she said. "Not once did she refuse to give her driver's license to him. She said, 'I'll give it to you in a minute,' and no patience was afforded to her. He controlled the entire situation, and he made it go in the direction it did. He let it escalate; he controlled that."

The officer said he stopped Bedford after he clocked her going 66 mph in a 50-mph zone. The family is not disputing the speeding citation but is fighting the charge of failure to present a driver's license.

McQue said her grandmother was speeding because she had a bladder infection and needed to get to a bathroom. The road her grandmother was on did not have a public bathroom in sight, she said.

Cop drags woman, 77, from car after ID refusal

McQue said manners and common sense on the part of the officer would have resulted in a different outcome.

"I know from experience from senior citizens and elderly people that they don't have to move faster," she said. "They take a more leisurely pace to do things, and that's the respect afforded them because they've lived so long."

Keene city administrator Bill Guinn, who has known the family for 30 years, said he called after hearing about the incident and offered to arrange a sit-down meeting with the police department.

The Bedfords have declined. The family retained an attorney but said they don't plan a lawsuit at this time.

"I feel badly for what happened, but that's the way it happened," Guinn said. "It's not the way we want anyone to feel about Keene or to see Keene. Keene is a great town, but there are these things that happen."

Sleepless and tearful
Bedford's family said this has never happened to her before. Since the video became public, her home phone constantly rings, and she hasn't slept. The family said Bedford is embarrassed, feeling like her life has been reduced to a video and Internet opinion polls about her as a person.

McQue said she was speaking on Bedford's behalf because her grandmother can't talk about the incident without crying.

"An apology would be nice, because she really is embarrassed by this -- that people think that she's a criminal. She's not a criminal," she said.

Read more US stories from NBC News

Keene residents said they have noticed that Bedford's arrest is getting national attention.

"I have people call me from Chicago, one from Michigan, so I'm getting phone calls from people wanting to know what's going on in Keene," Dan Roberts said.

He said that everyone in town has their own opinion.

"I watched the video, and I think she was wrong," Roberts said. "She should've handed over her driver's license and ID, and it would've been all over."

But Rachel Jessup disagreed.

"More are siding with her because she's a 77-year-old lady," she said. "People feel bad for her."

"He's a cop," she said. "You expect police officers to be rational and handle situations in a more mature way."

NBC 5's Amanda Guerra contributed to this report.

More content from NBCNews.com:

• Ex-Navy SEAL killed in Libya attack a highly trained pilot, marksman
• Clandestine dentist arrested in Miami after filing teen girl's teeth
• Cop drags woman, 77, from car after ID refusal
• Video: Was cash-from-car chase 'Robin Hood' situation?
• 73-year-old birdwatcher: I was raped in New York's Central Park

Follow US News from NBCNews.com on Twitter and Facebook

A Bronx police officer at the center of the NYPD ticket-fixing scandal has been charged, along with his wife, with conspiring to hire a hit man to murder a key witness against him.

Prosecutors say veteran police officer Jose Ramos and his wife, Wanda Abreu, intended for the witness to be killed during a planned trip to Texas so they'd have an alibi.

"He sold his badge," said Bronx Assistant District Attorney Omer Wiczyk. "He has sold his soul."

For more, visit NBCNewYork.com

Ramos' and Abreu's charges include three counts of second-degree conspiracy, punishable with 25 years imprisonment.

"We are blindsided by this," said defense attorney Dawn Florio. "My client is not guilty."

The DA alleges the couple spoke in person and on the phone in code, using five different aliases for their intended victim. Some of the conversations were recorded at Rikers Island, where Ramos is awaiting trial, court papers say.

"They were willing to pay a fee, but it was crucial to them they not be involved in the murder," Wiczyk said.

The Bronx DA's office said the couple agreed on a price and withdrew the funds from Ramos' NYPD pension. But before handing over the money, prosecutors said, Abreu suspected she was being recorded, and called it off.

Stay informed with the latest headlines; sign up for our newsletter

Acccording to prosecutors, Ramos told his wife to deliver the money:

"Go ahead, do it. But do it right away."

Ramos is being held without bail. The judge set a $500,000 bail for Abreu, or $100,000 cash.

Ramos pleaded not guilty last year to a range of corruption charges, including accusations that he attempted to transport heroin from the Bronx to Brooklyn, steal money from drug dealers, and commit a robbery while on duty. He was among 16 police officers arrested then in connection with a ticket-fixing probe.

The pair is due back in court Aug. 3.

More content from msnbc.com and NBC News:

• Poll: Confidence in organized religion at all-time low
• Survivalist made chilling video before killing wife, daughter
• Analysis: Paterno could have been indicted if he had lived
• Women in the infantry? Bad idea, female Marine officer says
• Caught on camera: Shark steals fish off pole
• Police: Wire mesh used to trap girl, 4, in bed

Follow US News on msnbc.com on Twitter and Facebook

An Australian cattle dog killed by a Texas police officer responding to a 911 call at a wrong address had been the subject of two previous complaints, local media reported Thursday.

Cisco, a blue heeler owned by Michael Paxton, was shot Saturday by an Austin officer responding to a domestic disturbance call. An address given in a 911 call turned out to be wrong -- the people who allegedly had been fighting in the street nearby had left the scene. But Officer Thomas Griffin said that when he arrived at the address he shot the dog after it charged at him. Paxton, however, denied that Cisco lunged at Griffin.

Officer shoots man's dog after 911 caller gives wrong address

According to The Austin American-Statesman, Cisco had been the subject of two complaints made to animal control authorities, last month and in 2007. In 2007, a woman complained that the dog had nipped at her hand, but Paxton denied the charge. Last month, a man who was walking past Paxton’s house, said the dog lunged at him, but did not bite him.

Paxton refused to believe the complaints. “I will go to my grave saying he was not a vicious dog,” Paxton told the Statesman. “There’s more to the issue than this.”

More content from msnbc.com and NBC News:

• 'As lucky as you get': Cop stabbed in head survives
• Report: Bar hand questioned over missing Fort Bragg soldier
• 474-year-old painting stolen by Nazis given to heirs
• Three Secret Service agents out in sex scandal

Follow US News on msnbc.com on Twitter and Facebook

NYPD

NYPD Officer Eder Loor was stabbed during a confrontation in East Harlem, New York.

A police officer stabbed in the skull while responding to a 911 call "has a shot at a full recovery," according to his doctor, because the knife blade narrowly missed vital brain functions.

NYPD officer Eder Loor, 28, was stabbed in the face and neck and had bleeding on the brain when he arrived at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, officials told NBC New York.

Dr. Joshua Bederson, professor and chair of neurosurgery at the hospital, said Loor would be uncomfortable for a while and would have low energy, but said "my guess is that within a month he'll be bugging me about getting back to work."

Overall, he said, Loor is "as lucky as you get." The knife, he said, went deep into Loor's temporal lobe and nicked an artery that, if it had been cut, likely would have killed him.

The New York Times reported that the folding knife’s three-inch blade passed half an inch below structures that control motor functions and another half-inch from structures that control vision. It touched the nerve that gives sensation to the face and nicked, but did not penetrate, a major artery.

“It was a millimeter (0.04 of an inch) from everything; it was ridiculous,” Bederson told the New York Times. “You don’t want to overemphasize, but he was at death’s door. He was minutes away from crashing.”

Read the fully story at NBC New York

Loor's pregnant wife, Dina, said her husband loves his job and will surely want to return to it.

"This is his passion, this is what he's lived for ... he doesn't quit ... he wants more and more in life," she told NBC New York.

Loor had been responding to a 911 call in East Harlem by the suspect's mother, who had called police saying her son needed to go to a hospital because he was "acting in an erratic manner."

The suspect, Terrence Hale, has several previous arrests, one for assault with a knife, officials said. A law enforcement official said police officers had been called several times to the home where he lives with his mother.

More police officers being killed despite drop in violent crime

The officers were escorting him out of the apartment building when he suddenly produced a knife and began stabbing Loor. He fled but was caught two blocks away.

He was undergoing a psych evaluation at Metropolitan Hospital. It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney.

Dina Loor, 25, told the New York Times that she had brought their four-and-a-half-year-old daughter into her husband’s room for a bedside visit. The girl was happy “to see her dad,” Loor said.

Their next child, a boy, is due in July, the newspaper said. 

More content from msnbc.com and NBC News:

• Three Secret Service agents out in sex scandal
• American on no-fly list alleges torture, FBI coercion
• City's finance chief accused of looting $30 million
• Murder charges after mom killed in apparent baby-snatch plot
• Video: Troops pose with Afghan body parts
• Ill. couple claim share of giant Mega Millions pot

Follow US News on msnbc.com on Twitter and Facebook

AP Photo/The News Tribune, Dean J. Koepfler

Investigators examine the area around the patrol car at the scene near Gorst, Wash., where a Washington state trooper was shot and killed during a traffic stop Thursday.

Updated at 5:11 p.m. ET: GORST, Wash. – A suspect in the shooting death of a Washington state trooper has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office confirmed Thursday afternoon that the man had passed away after being taken to Tacoma General Hospital.

AP

Trooper Tony Radulescu, 44.

The suspect was 28-year-old Joshua Jearl Blake, an ex-con with a history of drugs, assaulting the mother of one of his children, and kicking out the window of a police car. Blake was the registered owner of a pickup that Trooper Tony Radulescu pulled over just before he was shot to death early Thursday.

Investigators tracked Blake to a home near Port Orchard, where he shot himself as a SWAT team closed in.

“It’s a bad day," Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste told KING5.com. "It’s a terrible thing to receive a phone call that lets you know that one of your people has been injured in the line of duty. To have that compounded by the loss of that trooper. It’s a bad day.”

Radulescu, 44, had stopped the driver of a dark green Ford F-350 around 1 a.m. Thursday near Port Orchard, about 20 miles west of Seattle across the Puget Sound, and radioed the location and license plate number, according to Trooper Russ Winger.

When the trooper didn't respond to status checks, a Kitsap County sheriff's deputy went to the scene and found the wounded trooper outside his patrol car.

"He got here at 1:14 a.m., four minutes later, to find the injured trooper next to his vehicle," Trooper Ken Dickinson told KING5.com. "He immediately called for medical help."

He was taken to St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, where he was declared dead.

Three hours later, officers found the truck abandoned on a county road near Port Orchard, about two miles from the shooting scene.

"It was down a long country driveway, so it was kind of obvious it was ditched back there," Winger told KING5.com. "You had to drive down there with some intent -- not a real reason to go down there."

Troopers, deputies and other officers searched the area for the driver using dogs and questioning people. Dogs failed to pick up a track, Winger said.

Officers from multiple law enforcement agencies in the region had canvassed the area, knocking on doors to do welfare checks at homes, according to KING5.com.  They urged residents to stay inside and call 911 if they saw anything suspicious. 
 
'We're hurting'
The slain trooper was a well-respected veteran who worked out of the Bremerton station. He was also a military veteran with a son who is a soldier.

"We're all hurting, I'm hurting," Batiste told The Seattle Times. "He was a father and peer to many of us who was dearly loved. He served this country in the military and was with this organization for about 16 years."

"It's difficult,” Winger told KING5.com. “He was a personal friend of mine, a personal co-worker, he worked closely with me.... I've known this person for 14-15 years. I've been too busy to really think about the tragedy of it right now. It's going to sink in later."

Dozens of patrol cars with lights flashing escorted an aid car carrying the trooper's body about 6:30 a.m. Thursday from the hospital to the Pierce County medical examiner's office.

The last Washington State Patrol trooper killed on duty was James Saunders, 31, who was shot in 1999 during a traffic stop in Pasco. Nicolas S. Vasquez pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

More content from msnbc.com and NBC News

• Cops: Girl, 9, forced to run until she died
• Firms to use 'Facebook score' to screen applicants?
• Third-grade girl shot at school; boy held
• Devil in the details: Santorum hardly alone in belief in Satan