The NYPD stays losing. A former cop of the year was busted in Florida after allegedly attempting to buy 10 kilos of cocaine.
Protestors hit the streets of New York City in heavily tourist areas likes Times Square, Rockefeller Center, and Union Square Tuesday (Dec. 3), after a grand jury’s decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the choking death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner.
The Eric Garner verdict courtesy of a Staten Island grand jury is in and nobody is satisfied.
Despite video of the fatal chokehold used by a white NYPD cop on 43-year-old Staten Island man Eric Garner this past July, a grand jury in the borough had decided not to indict the officer. Hip-Hop stars and other celebrities took to Twitter to voice their anger over the decision.
A Staten Island grand jury has decided to not indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner by chokehold.
The NYPD will being training officers this week on using body cameras. The new program precedes a ruling in the choking death of Eric Garner over the summer. A bystander recording cops restraining Garner for selling illegal cigarettes, as he screamed about not being able to breathe.
Another important decision about about whether or not to prosecute police who killed a Black man is about to be made. A grand jury assembled to investigate the chokehold death of Eric Garner by NYPD will make its decision before the end of the year.
An incident involving a NYPD officer and a subway train fare beater turned bloody late last week. A 20-year-old man was bashed in the face with a nightstick after trying to hop the gate, leaving blood gushing down his face.
In terrible news out of the Brooklyn borough, we learn yet another unarmed man was shot and killed by New York City’s finest.
The chilling death of Wai Wuen Kwok this past Sunday has gripped riders of New York’s MTA subway train system with fear. Kwok was pushed onto the tracks of an incoming train by what was a formerly unknown attacker that has now been charged with murder.
Journalist Soledad O’Brien and her successful Black In America series has sparked some plenty of discussions worthy of debate regarding race relations. She continues the trend with the latest installment of the CNN program, BLACK in America: BLACK & BLUE – Soledad O’Brien Reports.
A pair of NYPD officers were indicted Tuesday on assault and misconduct charges after they allegedly beat an unarmed Black teen in Brooklyn this summer. The officers chased the boy after he was suspected of having marijuana, and pistol-whipped the boy as he seemingly tried to surrender.
