Tag: Police Brutality
With more protests held in Brooklyn on Sunday, the public is questioning “broken windows” theory more than ever. Written in 1982, the theory dictates that punishing smaller crimes to maintain social order deters bigger crimes, although no scientific proof qualifies this opinion. Currently, the theory is under fire over recent recorded acts of police brutality during minor crime policing, such as the death of […]
Police officers beat a handcuffed man on a stretcher, according to two FNDY EMTs, the Daily News reports. The EMTs were called to the 67th Precinct in Brooklyn to restrain an emotionally disturbed patient for transport on July 20th. They described the patient as “combative” and witnessed him spit in the face of an officer. The […]
Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the police confrontation which lead to the tragic death of Eric Garner, has been arrested in Staten Island on Saturday night. The 22-year-old is facing charges of criminal possession of an unloaded firearm. Police officers say they saw Orta attempting to pass an unloaded .25 caliber gun to a 17-year-old female near […]
Medical examiner spokeswoman Julie Bolcer stated that Eric Garner’s death is a homicide, the AP reports. The 43-year-old father of six died after being placed in chokehold by an NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo. Bolcer stated that Garner died as a result of “the compression of his chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police,” and that “asthma […]
Staten Island’s troubled 120th Precinct is being sued for the wrongful death of Irving Mizell, a 52-year-old man died from a heart attack while in NYPD custody. Mizell complained about having breathing issues while he was being booked at the precinct and was pronounced dead at the Richmond University Medical Center. The Daily News reports that “the medical examiner ruled […]
Days after damning videos emerged of the NYPD using chokeholds to try to subdue suspects during arrests, one of whom died shortly after, new footage has been posted to Facebook that shows an officer pointing a gun at a man’s head while he is being restrained. The officer then walks away to get his handcuffs […]
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 […]
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 […]
Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan, who was charged with a felony for elbowing a police officer, is out of Rikers Island after serving 58 days of her 90 day sentence. She was facing up to seven years after her conviction. According to the AP she was let out after serving less than a third […]
Saturday night, NYPD officers smashed a handcuffed 14-year-old’s head through a hookah shop window in the Bronx, according to witnesses. Javier Payne suffered a punctured lung and was critically bleeding after the incident, according to the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, and was rushed to the Jacobi Medical Center. No security footage exists, but according to Nageib Aldaylam, owner of […]
