Tag: NYPD
A grand jury has dismissed terrorist charges against a Brooklyn teenager who was arrested for posting a Facebook status of gun emojis pointed at police emojis. According to the criminal complaint, Osiris Aristy’s multiple social media posts “caused New York City police to fear for their safety,” prompting them to show up at his Bushwick […]
Arrests for the possession or small amounts of weed in New York City continue to decline sharply and it’s not because the NYPD is engaged in another slowdown — it’s because they’re finally following the law. Here’s some background: In 1977, weed was decriminalized in New York. According to the state law, possession of 25 […]
As citywide protests have calmed down and the intense focus on the NYPD has begun to lift, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has announced two ways that he plans to push forward controversial policies. The most immediately ominous initiative is a plan for, in Bratton’s words, a “new patrol model for how we deploy resources.” This new […]
The domestic partner of Akai Gurley, the unarmed East New York man who was fatally shot in a stairwell by NYPD in November, plans to sue the city for $50 million for his death. The New York Daily News reports that Kimberly Ballinger, whose two-year-old daughter was fathered by Gurley, is taking the “first legal […]
Ruhim Ullah pleaded guilty after being arrested in 2010 for menacing police officers with a machete, but despite his admission of guilt, he still received a $5,000 settlement from the city for a subsequent lawsuit. Ullah, 24, was shot in the leg by NYPD because according to witnesses and police at the scene, he was […]
Dorota Trec lives in Gowanus, where she keeps about 80 rabbits as pets. Yesterday, close to 20 NYPD officers raided Trec’s backyard and took custody of the animals in anticipation of the snowstorm that blanketed the north-east. Authorities were concerned that the rabbits would be in danger considering the difficult weather conditions. The rabbits roam relatively […]
New Yorkers refer to the subway car that houses a particularly pungent person as the “bum car” so often that it has it’s own Urdan Dictionary entry. The somewhat insensitive phrase is used something like this, “oh no wait, don’t go in, that’s the bum car, let’s squeeze into this one.” According to Queens Crap, some riders in […]
NYPD arrested a young teen in Brooklyn on Thursday in what has to be landmark case — he is accused of making threats against police via emoji. Osiris Aristy, 17, posted a series of emojis on his Facebook back in December that featured a cop with two guns pointed at it’s head and according to a criminal […]
Less than a month after the bill was submitted, city officials have voted to rename two Brooklyn streets after slain NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. The New York Post reports that the vote was a unanimous decision reached by the The City Council Parks Committee. Liu and Ramos were shot and killed on […]
Prosecutors have dropped the case against Brooklyn fashion photographer Andre Perry, who on November 17 was arrested for wearing what police thought were brass knuckles. The ring was a gold 2-finger Dallas & Dynasty ring that Perry says he bought at a flea market. DNAinfo reports that Perry, 32, “was charged with two counts of […]
