Tag Archives: NYPD

Their clip description: The Guitarmy had returned from their 99 Mile March from the Occupy National Gathering. We had greeted them at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and together we marched to Zucotti Park and celebrated. A feeling of glory days returned was in the air. To the NYPD we certainly seemed a menace, as a series of actions reminiscent …

The NYPD has announced a new policy for interacting with transgender New Yorkers. Paul Schindler reports at Gay City News: “The NYPD’s new Patrol Guide makes it clear that all people must be treated with respect,” Quinn said in a written release announcing the reforms. “I applaud Commissioner [Raymond] Kelly for working closely with the City Council and the LGBT …

Claiming that he was not hired because he openly declared that homosexuals should be locked up, a Muslim applicant to the NYPD is suing the city for violating his religious freedom to be an asshole. The would-be cop from Brooklyn — identified only as “Farhan Doe” — is a Muslim-American who believes homosexuality is a sin as a matter of …

A broad coalition of LGBT groups and others will gather at Manhattan’s Stonewall Inn today to jointly denounce the NYPD’s racist stop-and-frisk policy. “We are all standing together against police harassment on the basis of a person’s identity,” Rea Carey, the executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said in an interview. “There was no rational reason …

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will today ask the state legislature to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The move is meant to thwart the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, which has been shown to overwhelmingly target black and Latino men. Reducing the impact of the Bloomberg administration’s stop-and-frisk policy has been a top priority of lawmakers from minority neighborhoods, …

The New York Post has shocking video of an NYPD sergeant verbally abusing a 21 year-old man later arrested for disorderly conduct. Sgt. Charles followed the group into the nearby No. 1 Chinese Food restaurant, flanked by two plainclothes cops. “I have the long dick. You don’t,” the cop bragged. “Your pretty face — I like it very much. My …

New York City says their emergency services are being swamped by over four million “accidental” calls annually. An astounding 38% of some 10.4 million calls to 911 during 2010 involved such accidental or false alarm “short calls” of 19 seconds or less — that’s an average of 10,700 false calls a day. Most of the calls — commonly referred to …

New York City is about to begin using the “smartboot,” which can be removed by drivers themselves once they’ve paid their overdue tickets and received the removal code by phone. Under the program, a city marshal will be deployed with teams of PayLock employees. The marshal will verify that a car has more than $350 in judgments, then authorize PayLock …

“It’s 2012, and in the state of New York gays and lesbians have full civil rights, including marriage equality. Moreover, gays are no longer banned in the U.S. military. But they are still banned from Fifth Avenue’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in an embarrassing throwback for everyone involved. “It’s frankly appalling that NBC, and now its parent company Comcast, …

As the number of random* stop-and-frisk incidents continue to skyrocket in New York City, a satirical website claims that the NYPD and McDonald’s have joined up to offer free Happy Meals to the victims of police harassment. According to the NYCLU, stop-and-frisk occurrences that do not result in an arrest have climbed 600% under the Bloomberg administration. *Not so random …

The sign is a fake one put up by a peace activist street artist, but it’s there because the NYPD actually is looking at using lethal military drone vehicles like those used to kill Taliban leaders. According to an email uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act, the New York Police Department has consulted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on …

HEADLINE: NYPD traffic cop locks keys in his car, asshole blogger snaps photo. (The entire scene provided much mirth for other passersby, not just me.)

A commenter on Gothamist has been arrested after posting the above threat against NYPD Chief Ray Kelly. Gothamist notes: Just a friendly reminder that police officers are carefully monitoring your comments on the Internets, so you should probably refrain from threatening to kill anybody. Just sayin! Idiotic death threats are a clear violation of the Gothamist comment policy, and we …

Two women who were pepper-sprayed by the NYPD as they were held inside a protesters pen have filed a lawsuit. The incident was caught live by local news cameras and the video instantly went globally viral, fueling other Occupy protests around the nation. Chelsea Elliott and Jeanne Mansfield are suing Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna in Manhattan Federal Court for blasting …

Despite having been given assurances that they could peaceably protest on the sidewalk outside Manhattan’s glitzy Waldorf-Astoria, on Saturday the NYPD broke up the Occupy Wall Street demonstration during the Human Rights Campaign $650/plate gala to honor Goldman Sachs. Via press release: In NYC Saturday night, February 4, 2012, approximately 80 LGBT grassroots activists from a variety of groups united …

An NYPD officer fired for flashing his junk wants to be reinstated because it was never proven that an erect uncut penis looks like his, which is circumcised. The accuser, who is not named, “repeatedly stated and testified that she unequivocally and clearly saw the petitioner’s penis and it was uncircumcised,” the suit says. Hopper says he submitted evidence he …

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Twitter is lighting up with OWS reports that the NYPD is using a handheld sonic cannon known as an L-RAD or Long-Range Acoustic Device. “Long-Range Acoustic Devices (L-RADs) send harmful, pain inducing tones over longer distances and are rarely deployed for crowd control purposes.” Note: The below clip doesn’t show the weapon being used.