Tag: NYPD
Video of NYPD officers NOT being violent was posted online Tuesday evening. ABC News obtained footage that shows two cops rescuing a dog in the Bronx that had been tied to a sign and abandoned. The pit bull had a muzzle around its nose tied very tightly, making it hard for the canine to breathe. […]
Current and former members of the NYPD told DNAinfo that the police force is still using the same tactics it employed in the high crime days of the early 1990s, despite the fact that crime has drastically reduced, and that the city is a far different place. The sources say that many of the department’s troubles […]
Akai Gurley, 28, was shot and killed by a rookie cop while descending the unlit staircase of East New York’s Pink Houses on November 20th. He was unarmed. According to Gurley’s female companion, Melissa Butler, the two residents decided to take the staircase after the elevator had taken too long to arrive. When the couple […]
A disturbing new video shows an NYPD officer beating an alleged farebeater over the head with a nightstick — a move that’s “against department policy,” reports PIX11. The incident, which took place around 8 PM at the Myrtle Avenue (Broadway) J/M/Z station. The video begins with the officer pinning 20-year-old Donovan Lawson against a wall, […]
Its been a few months since city cops have killed an unarmed black man, but New York’s Finest ended that streak Thursday night. Rookie officer Peter Liang fatally shot Akai Gurley, 28, in the chest reports the Daily News. The incident took place in what the NYPD is characterizing as a “dimly lit stairwell of […]
A new documentary-in-the-making seeks to recapture the spirit of the ’90s-era Lower East Side squatters and their fight with the NYPD under then-New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. Anytime, Baby: The War for the Lower East Side, by Queens resident and filmmaker John Frisbie, revisits the sordid era of New […]
Climbing the Brooklyn Bridge for a hot photo op has become the tourist activity of choice lately. This Sunday, 23-year-old Jonathon Souid became the latest thrill-seeker to scale the iconic structure in a matter of months. He was caught in the act by the NYPD and taken to the 84th precinct in Downtown Brooklyn to be […]
To some, the idea of a gang of crooked cops gone rogue may sound like fiction, but it was a reality in the late ’80s and ’90s in New York City. On Friday, the premiere of documentary The Seven Five will reunite disgraced NYPD officers Michael Dowd and Kenneth Eurell and their gang, known as […]
The death of Eric Garner has sparked a public debate on the use of chokeholds — banned since 1993 by the NYPD — by police in this city. On Thursday, the NYC council will introduce a bill that would make them illegal. That’s not sitting well with Mayor Bill de Blasio, who told reporters on […]
When news leaked earlier this week that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton would be jointly announcing a new city-wide initiative to, essentially, honor the 1977 statute that decriminalizing weed, City Councilman Mark Levine was already way ahead of them. Through Twitter, Levine, a Democrat, announced his support for an end to […]
