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December 24, 2014 Bucky Turco

According to the New York Post, a divisive, sensationalist tabloid that stokes fear and often gets stories wrong, “gang members” threatened to “shoot it out with police” in New York City. The NYPD deployed “SWAT teams” at two precincts in Bed Stuy: Four Emergency Services Unit officers, outfitted with helmets and assault weapons, were stationed […]

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October 30, 2014 Bucky Turco

Turhan Gumusdere aka TRIKE1 is an old-school graffiti writer who used to bomb NYC subway trains in the 70s and is now the warden of Rikers’ biggest jail. Although this promotion happened in early June and was announced via an official press release (PDF), the New York Post is just putting it all together now […]

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July 22, 2013 Bucky Turco

The New York Post–a shameless tabloid that’s known to get its “facts” wrong a lot–published an “exclusive” story in Sunday’s paper that is erroneous from the outset: Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Wait, what? […]

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