Tag: NYPD
Last night a riot broke out at a vigil from Kimani Gray, a 16-year-old killed by police over the weekend, as protesters apparently angry over Gray’s death and the lack of a response from the city threw trash cans, smashed windows, and looted a Rite Aid. According to attendees, the evening began peacefully at around […]
Did you know that possession of a single condom is all it takes to land you in jail for prostitution? Here. In New York City. Especially if you’re a trans, low-income, or a person of color. Molly Crabapple wrote an enlightening Vice post on the ridiculously broad and dubious laws regarding “prostitution”-related arrests. While it takes somewhat concrete […]
Last month, we posted the trailer to Police Mortality, a 66-minute supercut of footage from various Hollywood films that tells a story of NYPD violence. “It’s about an existential crisis in the NYPD that results in terrorism, communism, OWS and total freedom,” the film’s creators told us at the time. “It stars Will Smith, Bruce Willis, Robocop, […]
Hip-hop entrepreneur Michael “Blue” Williams is proposing an unusual plan to deal with gun violence in New York: offer tickets to see Jay-Z or Beyonce at their upcoming shows to anyone who brings in a firearm for buyback. Williams also plans to augment the buyback model in more substantiative ways, giving the option for kids […]
The night of October 31, Coney Island barber Donald Franks was returning home from Home Depot, where he had gone to charge his and his family’s cell phones in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. When he walked by a nearby Key Food, he saw several teenagers running away with cops not far behind–and soon enough, […]
Last month, ANIMAL and advocacy group Stamp Stampede staged a stunt in which we took a projector-equipped van and displayed propaganda messages at various New York City locations–including onto the home of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. We dealt with the NYPD at the time, but after showing up at the homes of two ANIMAL staffers and […]
In 2011, 26-year-old Robert Bell was leaving the Slaughtered Lamb Pub on West 4th Street when he saw a few NYPD officers walking by and decided to give them the middle finger behind their backs. When another cop saw Bell do the dirty deed, he arrested Bell and held him at the 6th Precinct for […]
In an effort to bring more citizen oversight to the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, the New York Civil Liberties Union has brought its innovative Stop and Frisk Watch mobile app to the iPhone. Using the app, New Yorkers can take video recordings of any stop they witness (not when they’re being stopped themselves–relax, NYP), then […]
The NYPD has released a report detailing the precinct and racial demographics of all stop-and-frisks from 2011, after receiving pressure from the New York Civil Liberties Union. The results are astounding, and just another indication of the racial profiling and bias that goes into the practice. Ninety percent of stops in all of the city […]
A new court filing by a group of civil rights lawyers alleges that the NYPD’s insistent focus on surveilling Muslims is in violation of a 1985 legal ruling. “There is substantial persuasive evidence that the defendants are conducting investigations into organizations and individuals associated with the Muslim faith and the Muslim community in New York, […]
