Tag: NYPD
Detective Sekou Bourne, the same cop who knocked a teen unconscious for smoking a cigarette, is now being accused of tackling a woman to the ground for sucking on a lollipop. A new complaint filed with the Civilian Complaint Review Board alleges that Bourne and Sargeant Afzal Ali raided Malik Saunders’s East New York apartment […]
Queens Community Board 2 has a problem with clever marketing, reports DNAinfo. Hunters Point local business Sugardaddy’s recreated parking tickets as part of a marketing campaign to highlight free lunch and $5 drink specials. The strip club’s advertisements were so spot-on that local residents feared the NYPD, no longer on a slowdown, was on a […]
At an NYPD trial on Thursday, a Brooklyn man says he was stopped-and-frisked and briefly cuffed for returning items at a Manhattan store on November 2012 (and no, it wasn’t Barney’s). His crime: shopping while black. After the encounter, part of which was captured on video by a passerby, Jermaine Johnakin filed a complaint against […]
The man who in December was shoved to the street by NYPD after attempting to dance behind them is suing the city, the New York Daily News reports. Alexander Nzebele, a self-described prankster who goes by Alexander BOK, was filming a now-viral video of himself dancing on the street for consideration in the Ellen Show […]
The NYPD does not want an apology. It has, instead, set its sights on a much bigger concession. A prize that gives the NYPD what it loves best: totalitarian power and felony arrest statistics. The nation’s largest police force now wants the mayor and our representatives in Albany to get down on their knees, beg […]
A Michigan man has been arrested for posting violent threats against police officers on Facebook, including against Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who escaped charges for the death of Eric Garner last December. Alvaro Eduardo Guzman-Telles is being charged with charge of interstate transmission of threatening communications in federal court. According to the Detroit Free Press, […]
On Wednesday, New York City’s top cop and most ardent broken windows proponent urged stiffer penalties for resisting arrest. After a hearing before state lawmakers in Lower Manhattan, Police Commissioner William Bratton told reporters that the charge should be raised from a misdemeanor to a felony. “I think a felony would be very helpful in […]
Sneering bobble head doll Patrick Lynch, also the city’s most villainous police union head, held the attention of a room full of Bronx cops for barely 10 minutes before two thirds of them “stormed out,” reports the New York Daily News. The essence of the moment was captured forever via a photo that showed an […]
Artist, journalist and political activist Molly Crabapple has released an arresting new video illustrating the history of the “Broken Windows” policy and how it hurts people of color. Crabapple, a subject of the FBI’s intrigue, details the policy championed by William Bratton during his past and current term as NYPD Commissioner. Throughout the course of […]
Seven months after being recorded kicking the head of an handcuffed suspect in Bed-Stuy, Officer Joel Edouard has been indicted for misdemeanor assault, DNAinfo reports. The video of the incident, which takes place less than a week after the events surrounding the Eric Garner case, shows another example of the police brutality in the city. […]
