Tag Archives: NYPD

NYPD Deploys Robot Dog In Public Housing [VIDEO]

Gothamist reports: The NYPD’s robot dog is once again stirring privacy concerns and cyberpunk prophesies of some New Yorkers, after the four-legged machine was spotted inside of a Manhattan public housing complex on Monday. A video shared on Twitter shows the robot trotting out of a building on East 28th Street in front of two NYPD officers, then slowly descending …

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Lawyer For Eye-Gouging Riot Suspect Complains That His Client Is Being Jailed With “Inner-City” Criminals

Raw Story reports: An attorney representing a MAGA rioter who infamously gouged a Metropolitan Police officer’s eyes argued on Friday that his client doesn’t deserve to be held in a cell with people who have committed “inner-city crimes.” Webster was caught on camera assaulting a member of Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police force during the January 6th riots when he both …

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NYPD Memo: Ignore People Smoking Weed In Public

The Hill reports: A recent memorandum from the New York Police Department (NYPD) advises officers not to stop residents who are smoking marijuana in public. The memo shared with The Hill on Friday outlines how officers are to approach the drug after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed recreational weed into law. It says that smoking marijuana in places …

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NYPD Chief Concerned About Weed Smoking In Public

The New York Daily News reports: “I hope I’m missing something but it appears (the bill) is legalizing the smoking of marijuana outside,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. “That’s not something that most other states did. They legalized marijuana but it was still illegal to smoke outside and in public.” The NYPD fields “10s of 10s of 10s of thousands” …

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NYC Makes It Easier To Sue Police For Misconduct

CBS New York reports: The New York City Council has voted to end qualified immunity for police officers. The decades-old protection has prevented officers from being sued or liable for misconduct. New York is now the first city in the country to end qualified immunity. Critics argued scrapping the protection will make officers less aggressive in fighting crime, if they …

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Ex-NYPD “Tambourine Woman” Arrested In Capitol Riot

The New York Daily News reports: A former NYPD officer was arrested for taking part in the Capitol riots — shaking a tambourine in the halls of government as other Trump supporters ran amok, the feds said Tuesday. Sara Carpenter, 51, a Richmond Hill, Queens, resident, retired from the force in 2004. She worked as a spokeswoman for the NYPD …

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“Eye Gouger” Ex-NYPD Cop Charged In Capitol Riot

New York City’s NBC News affiliate reports: A retired NYPD officer who had been assigned for a time to work perimeter security at City Hall and at Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence, has been accused of using a pipe to attack U.S. Capitol officers during the Jan. 6 siege, law enforcement officials told News 4 Tuesday. Thomas Webster surrendered …

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Letter Implicates NYPD And FBI In Killing Of Malcolm X

New York City’s ABC News affiliate reports: Fifty-six years after the death of Malcolm X, lawyers revealed what they called new evidence of a conspiracy, perpetrated by the NYPD and the FBI to assassinate the Civil Rights activist in Harlem. Ray Wood was an undercover police officer at the time – his family and their attorney now claim Wood wrote …

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NYPD Union Head Ed Mullins Won’t Apologize For Tweet Calling Gay US Rep. Ritchie Torres A “First Class Whore”

The New York Post reports: The head of the NYPD’s sergeants union — who is facing up to a two-month discipline over social media posts that include calling the Big Apple’s former health commissioner a “bitch” and a lawmaker a “first class whore” — has defended his actions and says he refuses to apologize for them. In a Monday letter …

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NYPD Removes Barricades Around Trump Tower

Gothamist reports: For nearly five years, since Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy, the sidewalks and streets around Trump Tower have been blanketed in a maze of NYPD barricades and security theater. On Wednesday, the police department removed the last of the barricades around 56th and 5th Avenue, and New Yorkers are now free to walk past the former president’s …

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NYPD Probes Cop Seen With Roger Stone On Jan. 6th

The New York Daily News reports: An NYPD officer was caught on camera palling around with longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone and some members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia outside a Washington, D.C. hotel hours before the deadly U.S. Capitol siege, the Daily News has learned. Salvatore Greco, 38, a 12-year NYPD veteran, shows up in the background of …

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NYPD Hit With Class Action Suit Over BLM Protests

Gothamist reports: Mayor Bill de Blasio and his embattled police department are facing yet another lawsuit over the NYPD’s treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters — with a potentially “astronomical” price tag for city taxpayers. Filed in federal court on Thursday, the new class action lawsuit accuses the NYPD of violating the rights of New Yorkers through “demoralizing and brutal …

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NYPD Slashes Security Presence At Trump Tower

The New York Post reports: The NYPD’s security presence at Trump Tower is going to be significantly scaled-back now that its namesake has turned over the role of commander-in-chief to President Biden, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday. Hizzoner announced the reduction in security around the Midtown skyscraper one day after Biden was inaugurated as president. “It’s still obviously a …

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FBI Nabs Man Who Said He Traveled With Ex-NYPD

New York City’s ABC News affiliate reports: Federal prosecutors have charged another person from our area with participating in the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, this time a man who said he traveled to Washington, D.C., with former members of the NYPD and the Proud Boys. The FBI said Christopher Kelly, of New York, posted photos of himself …

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NY Sues NYPD Over Excessive Force At BLM Protests

Spectrum’s NY1 reports: New York State Attorney General Letitia James is suing the New York City Police Department in an effort to install a federal monitor to oversee them. The lawsuit comes after the AG’s office found widespread civil rights abuses by police against Black Lives Matter protesters over the summer. This marks the first time in state history the …

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6200 Troops Arrive To Protect Biden Inauguration

The Military Times reports: Troops from Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and Virginia joined those from D.C. Leaving their homes and jobs, the Guard troops are here, three days after two Air Force veterans were killed and three others died in an attempted insurrection. They are here to help ensure it does not happen again. “I never thought I would see …

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NYPD: Don’t Even Try To Come To Times Square On NYE

The New York Daily News reports: The coronavirus pandemic — in its final, cruel act of 2020 — has grounded public New Year’s Eve bashes around the globe, including the iconic ball drop at Times Square which will be closed to revelers this year. The crystal orb that normally draws millions of visitors will still make its famous descent down …

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Video Shows NYC Bar Owner Striking Cop With His Car

The New York Daily News reports: Surveillance video shows the moment Staten Island pub owner Daniel Presti slammed into a city sheriff’s deputy with his Jeep — and the barkeep’s lawyer maintains the footage clears his client. The video shows Presti, 33, who co-owns Mac’s Public House on Lincoln Ave. in Grant City, running along South Railroad Ave. toward his …

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NYPD Assisted And Protected Proud Boys In Blockade

Gothamist reports: The NYC convoy was accompanied by an NYPD escort, which did not intervene as participants halted traffic on the Whitestone Bridge to wave pro-Trump and pro-police flags in the roadway. The group continued upstate, later taking over the Mario Cuomo Bridge, according to video posted by Freedom News TV. Christopher Wright, a 36-year-old Black Trump supporter associated with …

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NYC Cop Uses Police Car Speaker To Say “Trump 2020”

The Washington Post reports: The New York City Police Department said Sunday that it was investigating video footage circulating on social media that appears to capture an officer in a police car using his speaker to say “Trump 2020.” At least two video clips shared widely on social media Saturday night appeared to capture the same incident in Brooklyn. In …

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