Tag: COPS
A disturbing video the New York Daily News posted on its website Friday shows a plain-clothes police officer choking a Staten Island man, who later died. The video, captured by a civilian bystander, begins with 43-year-old Eric Garner telling the cops he “didn’t do shit,” and that he was “minding his business.” The tension escalates […]
Two weeks after Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan was let out Rikers for elbowing an officer in Zuccotti Park, she was back in court on Thursday to answer unrelated charges that also happened to involve a confrontation with police reports the New York Times. In 2013, McMillan was arrested in Union Square subway station […]
TV reporter Sean Bergin was suspended by News 12 Networks after comments he made on-air related to the killing of police officer Melvin Santiago in Jersey City. In the broadcast report, Bergin explained that the news network decided to report on the case in order to “shine a light on this anticop mentality that has so […]
It is a sad state of affairs when would-be graffiti artists get caught by the police in a city as big as New York, where there is plenty of real crime vying for the NYPD’s attention. So, please take the following advice and you will save us and yourself some late nights at the courthouse. […]
After several high profile cases in which defendants were arrested based on information found on their cell phones, the Supreme Court has ruled that police officers must obtain a warrant in order to search the mobile devices. Justice John Roberts said in his ruling: Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all […]
In Harlem last week, NYPD officers arrested 40 people suspected to be associated with two rival gangs in the area. The arrests took place during a massive raid of two project buildings. On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, Daryl Khan, New York bureau chief of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange and a CUNY journalism professor, reported on […]
A Chicago man who was arrested using facial recognition software has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for armed robbery. Pierre Martin had strikes on his record before he was caught on camera holding up a man on public transportation. His photo was already in the Chicago police department’s database of 4.5 million mugshots. […]
The UK police is beefing up its “riot control” maneuvers in some bizarre ways. They have erected an entire fake town. It looks like a dystopian Potemkin village or a movie studio set, where police trainees go to play out a variety of riot scenarios and strategize controlling violent crowds in complex city environments. After […]
Philip Eure, a longtime leader of the Office of Police Complaints in Washington, D.C., will be the first Inspector General of the NYPD. The new office was created after City Council passed the Community Safety Act, legislation designed to increase NYPD oversight, last year. Eure’s police-regulating bona fides appear to be in line: in D.C., he […]
The above video shows the tail end of an incident yesterday in which NYPD officers allegedly slammed a 16-year-old girl’s face against the floor of a Downtown Brooklyn Chinese restaurant and threw a 15-year-old girl through the establishment’s front window, shattering it. According to witnesses, the altercation began when cops ordered everyone out of the […]
