Tag: NYPD
Over the weekend, we learned that the Manhattan district attorney will not prosecute NYPD Deputy Inspectors Anthony Bologna and Johnny Cardona, who were caught on video respectively pepper spraying and punching peaceful Occupy Wall Street protesters in Fall 2011. Fortunately, there’s still the prospect of holding the two cops accountable, in the form of a […]
Kenny Scharf was arrested in Williamsburg in Friday night, Art Sucks reports. According to court info, he was charged with making graffiti, possession of a graffiti instrument, and some other small-time charge, but was released on his own recognizance, meaning he did not have to post bail. Scharf posted the above signature squiggly snake on his Facebook […]
For some reason, it’s often in the dead of night — when most subway trains are virtually empty — that the NYPD enforces the MTA’s one-seat-per-passenger rule. A 24-year old waitress from Sunset Park learned this the hard way, when a late-night commute from her East Village restaurant resulted in a $50 fine and a […]
Last night’s opening of “Who Shot Natalie White” at the ROX Gallery in LES was, unsurprisingly, received by quite the controversy among locals. In response to the bountiful display of boobs and self-pleasuring facing out onto Delancey Street, some outraged elderlies called upon the police to put an end to the unsavory scene. But boys […]
The popular Five Boro Bike Tour narrowly avoided having to pay the NYPD nearly $1 million in traffic control costs this week. The police department had claimed that the event isn’t in fact charitable, because its proceeds benefit Bike New York, its own operating body. The court disagreed. “Some issues in promoting this tour may […]
Yesterday, the City of New York agreed to pay over $365,000 to settle a lawsuit over the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library. When the NYPD unceremoniously raided and evicted the Zuccotti Park Occupy encampment in November 2011, officers destroyed the library and many of the 5,500 books inside. As Allison Burtch put it […]
After a forum during which seven mayoral candidates described their plans to improve New York City’s safety, Mayor Bloomberg described the proceedings as “really depressing.” “Not one addressed the real issues,” he said. “Not one had any creative ideas, other than they wanted apple pie and ice cream and not have anybody pay for it. […]
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly is issuing an edict limiting police officers’ social media use, because the NYPD likes to focus on the important things. Cops will no longer be able to make reference to their jobs on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Friendster, or BlackPlanet, or post pictures of themselves in uniform, as “Members of the service […]
Hearings in the federal case against stop-and-frisk will include pretrial testimony from officers Michael Noboa, Kha Dang, and Edgar Gonzalez, three of the four cops responsible for the most recorded stops in a three-month period in 2009. The Times obtained hundreds of pages of the testimony, much of which focused on the reasons the officers might stop a particular […]
Late in the week Kimani Gray was shot and killed by police in East Flatbush, Mayor Bloomberg attempted to offer condolences and sympathy to Gray’s mother, attempts that were firmly denied. “We weren’t interested in the photo op,” said Kenneth J. Montgomery, one of Gray’s lawyers. “In the totem pole of important things and important emotions, […]
