Tag: POLICE
A cop afraid of a dog and its unarmed owner opened fire on them inside their own Coney Island apartment building, according to a lawsuit. Fortunately, the shots missed and neither Elizabeth Villafane nor her bullmastiff Bubba were hurt. The pair cops were in Villafane’s building to issue a warrant for her arrest for walking an […]
One month of its instatement, the NYPD’s blackout on local crime news is still in effect. In December, the department stopped allowing precincts to provide information about crime to reporters, instead funneling all requests through the office of the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information, effectively cutting off information about local crime. Brooklyn Daily and Gothamist dug into the […]
Yet another NYPD officer has come forward and admitted he was riding with the group of motorcyclists who chased down and beat a driver last month. Matthew Rodriguez, 28, serves in the internal affairs bureau–ironically, the division of the NYPD devoted to investigating wrongdoing by cops like this one. Rodriguez is the latest to come forward […]
The drama never stops coming in the case of last month’s motorcycle-vs.-SUV chaos. Wojciech Braszczok, an undercover detective who rode with the motorcycle gang, had his charges upgraded from criminal mischief and riot to assault and gang assault (the riot charge was dropped) for his involvement in the attack on SUV driver Alexian Lien. In a […]
As we reported yesterday, one of the motorcyclists involved in the chasing and beating of Alexian Lien–an incident that’s received widespread attention due to a viral video–was an undercover cop. Now, Wojciech Braszczok, an NYPD detective, has been arrested for riot and criminal mischief. According to the New York Times, “more counts could be added.” Braszczok told police of […]
It turns out that undercover detective who as at the scene of the West Side Highway motorcycle chase was involved in beating up SUV driver Alexian Lien, contrary to what was originally reported. NYPD sources say a video–not the one that went viral on YouTube–shows the detective banging on one of the the car’s windows until it […]
Allen Edwards, the man who can be seen punching through the back window of an SUV at the end of a motorcycle chase video that went viral earlier this week, will not face charges. Edwards turned himself into police Tuesday, and was promptly arrested on “reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and menacing,” according to the New York […]
If you’re wondering how the group of bikers who beat and knifed Alexian Lien after he ran over a group of them were able to get as far as they did before the cops intervened, here’s a possible answer. According to a source at the NYPD contacted by the Post, the department has a laissez-faire policy about […]
A new lawsuit–filed by the family of a man who was killed by NYPD officers last year–hopes to improve the department’s capacity to dealing with the mentally ill. Mohamed Bah was shot and killed by officers after his mother called 911 to help him get to the hospital and treat his depression. She wasn’t expecting […]
A clever, mischievous street artist has shrink-wrapped at least two polizeiautos in Cologne, Germany. A few German bloggers seem to think it’s the work of Spanish public space interventionist SpY, which seems credible as he’s pulled this kind of thing in NYC before. We’ve reached out to the artist to confirm. UPDATE: We heard back from SpY, who confirmed that […]
