“I want the city to drop the charges,” said nude model activist Kathleen Neil back in late August, after she was arrested at the Met for stripping off her clothes during a guerrilla photo shoot for lensman Zach Hyman. Well, she got her wish. Read more »
So there might be some justice after all for Oreo, the now dead pit bull that had a bit of an attitude and was subsequently murdered by the ASPCA, despite an animal rescue group’s frantic pleas to take the bitch in. All of which, we know learn, went completely unanswered: emails, phone calls, physical visits to the facility. Read more »
The nation’s most famous Constitution-hating, immigrant-discriminating sheriff, Joe Arpaio, was shouted out by what was to be one of the bravest vandals in all of Arizona. Armed with what looks like a spray paint filled fire extinguisher, the eloquently brief missive was sprayed on the “Sheriff’s Office property building” after a press conference according to the notorious rights violator. Read more »
The Obama administration is sending 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his cohorts currently being held in Guantanamo Bay will be sent to our fair city to finally face trial for the crimes they’ve been accused of. Attorney Geneneral Eric Holder is expected to make the official announcement later today. |New York Post|
“If it wasn’t for Facebook I’d still be on Rikers Island,” said a Brooklyn teenager who was accused of sticking up two people. Rodney Bradford spent 12 days in jail, but was later released after prosecutors determined that a status update he made to his Facebook page along with multiple eyewitness accounts placed the 19-year-old in front of a computer at his dad’s house, not at the scene of the crime. Social networking for justice! |NYP|
After being held for 26 hours, Yes Men co-founder Andy Bichlbaum was released and all charges were dropped according to a press released issued by the activist group. He says the “judge just laughed,” but the “police had a less well-developed sense of humor.” Bichlbaum was arrested on Tuesday morning and charged with trespassing during a gathering of 21 Survivaballs on the East River who were planning to “take the UN by storm.” Although he admits that getting locked up was kind of a drag, he was more focused on the upside: PR! Read more »
The NYCLU will visit public high schools around the city this week to inform students of their limited rights when encountering the NYPD on school grounds. |SILive|
The lefty New York Civil Liberty Union is up to it’s old justice-promoting tricks again, this time challenging secret hearings held against “those accused of offenses within the NYC’s transit system.” And we’re not talking terrorists here, but people who have been given summonses for mostly minor offenses like “fare evasion, public intoxication, unreasonable noise and obstructing pedestrian traffic.” But unlike most courts, the New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau (TAB) is an agency that holds its own “closed-door hearings” which pretty much violates the “First Amendment, the New York State Constitution and the state’s common law,” according to the NYCLU in a recently filed lawsuit.
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While surveillance cameras are rarely a successful tool in preventing crime, they do come in handy after the fact, when it comes to identifying criminals and cops now too. The New York Times reports how, increasingly, cameras are playing a role in gathering “evidence against police officers accused of misconduct.” Officer Patrick Pogan was eventually fired after video proved he was a liar, but his case was just one of many against law enforcement, like Detective Debra Eager. She was “indicted on three felony perjury charges after her testimony before a grand jury about a 2007 drug arrest “starkly contradicted” video surveillance of the event.” |NYT|
The poor NYPD, they just can’t catch a break lately and keep getting caught on video unlawfully beating the city’s residents. Shockingly they’re even getting punished for it. It was only last week that bike-pushing bully Patrick Pogan was kicked off the force, and today the Post reports that all charges will be dropped against Michael Cephus, “a disabled truck driver” who was beat with a metal baton by Officer Maurice Harrington and then charged with assaulting a cop. The victim was facing 15 years in prison, but thankfully, two bystanders recorded the attack and then smartly “slipped the film to his friend” since they were also arrested. |NYP|
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