Tag: NYPD
The block on Bergen Street in Brooklyn was already filling by 5PM on Wednesday night. People were gathering for the funeral of Eric Garner, the 43-year-old man who died last week after an NYPD plain clothes officer was captured on video putting the Staten Island father of six in a chokehold. I asked everyone one […]
Cops appear to be finally cracking down on sexual harassment on the subway. So far this year, 128 people have been arrested, compared to 104 last year. The NYPD credits the 23% increase to having more plainclothes officers on the train. “Increased enforcement is a good step,” Debjoni Roy, the deputy director of the street harassment non-profit Hollaback! told Daily […]
A local reverend and community activist recently shared a pair of videos on his Facebook page of an NYPD officer placing what looks like a chokehold on a man in a Manhattan subway station, in a confrontation that occurred just days before the same physical tactic, which is prohibited by the police department, befell a […]
In the wake of Eric Garner’s recent death after an act of police misconduct, the NYPD is reviewing its practices of using force and retraining all of its 35,000 officers. One senior police official stated that a wider use of tasers was being discussed, as it could lessen direct physical contact in a confrontation such as […]
This morning, it was extensively reported that the two American flags which typically sit atop the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge were replaced with white ones. According to a construction worker, they appeared to be bleached versions of the stars and stripes—think Jasper Johns. No one knows who put them there or why, but feel […]
An internal NYPD report obtained by the Daily News on the death of Eric Garner whitewashed key details of the arrest such as the improper chokehold and medical status of the 43-year-old Staten Island man. In interviews conducted by the police department soon after the incident, Sgt. Dhanan Saminath describes the cops “maintaining control of […]
This morning, NY1 aired a short report on sex trafficking in New York City, pointing out startling statistics regarding underage victims. The New York State Office of Children and Family Services says about 1,900 girls under the age of 18 are commercially sexually exploited in the city, some as young as 11 years old. Another 7,300 victims […]
A second video has emerged that documented what happened moments after a 43-year-old Staten Island man was put in a chokehold by a plainclothes officer and went limp during a botched arrest. Police say that Garner was selling loosie cigarettes, but witnesses say he had just broken up a fight. In the footage posted to […]
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 […]
Civil liberties lawyer Normal Siegel has filed a landmark lawsuit in Federal District Court in Manhattan earlier this week on behalf of Debra Goodman, who was arrested “without reason or probably cause” for videotaping officers and emergency medical technicians on the Upper West Side. “This lawsuit seeks to establish First Amendment rights to record police activity,” Siegel tells ANIMAL. […]
