Tag: NYPD
City officials announced on Wednesday that they are moving to honor slain Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos by naming two Brooklyn streets after them. Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced their support for a bill sponsored by Council Members Mark Treyger and Rafael Espina, who represent the slain detectives’s […]
Fashion photographer Andre Perry, 32, has shot campaigns for Reebok, Brooklyn Circus and Nordstrom, but fashion caused him some problems recently when his two-finger gold ring was mistaken for brass knuckles by undercover members of the NYPD. They arrested Perry and charged him with “two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, one for having the ring […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio met with five police union heads on Tuesday afternoon in an effort to improve increasingly hostile relations between the two groups. While no press was allowed inside the conference room of the Police Academy in College Point, Queens, sources told the New York Daily News that the two and a half […]
Elevated tensions between the NYPD and the mayor — high in the weeks after the protests for Eric Garner began — have skyrocketed after a mentally ill man ambushed and killed two officers on December 20. While police remain on high alert in the city, reports by the New York Post and the New York […]
Usually when people think of a town where dancing is illegal they think of the small bumpkin-ville USA religious community from Footloose. But Alexander BOK found out the NYPD — currently on high alert — really doesn’t like it when you dance behind them. BOK was participating in Ellen Degeneres’s Dance Dare Challenge in which […]
KLOPS is a prolific graffiti artist in New York City who not only writes his name, but also draws characters. He makes legal art, too: Every week, be on the lookout for an original KLOPS comic with the artist’s take on current events. […]
Protesters gathered in East New York on Saturday to demand justice for Akai Gurley, a resident of the Pink Houses who was shot in a darkened stairwell by a rookie cop. More than 200 protesters reportedly gathered at the site of the shooting before making their way to the 75th Precinct. After arriving at the station, protestors […]
Hundreds of NYPD officers attending the funeral for Rafael Ramos — the police officer who was shot to death along with his partner Wenjian Liu in Bed Stuy — turned their backs on screens showing Mayor Bill De Blasio as he spoke at a Queens church on Saturday. The cops were watching the service on […]
On Friday morning, a large banner flew over NYC. It read, “DE BLASIO OUR BACKS HAVE TURNED TO YOU.” This is an apparent reference to the incident last week in which police officers turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio when he visited the hospital where two cops died after being shot, execution style, by […]
As tensions between citizens, protestors and the NYPD continue, a new report says that even cops fall victim to a system that many say intentionally targets minorities. Many blacks cops have stated that they were racially profiled by other cops when out of uniform. Reuters reports: Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the […]
