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Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Hate Crime Against Black Woman
In 2018, a 57-year-old Black woman was walking to a subway station in Brooklyn when a white man began stabbing her and yelling racial slurs. CNN reports that on Wednesday, 34-year-old Aleksejs Saveljevs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the attack. Saveljevs pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted assault as a hate crime, according…
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Top Prosecutor in Brooklyn Wants to Decriminalize Prostitution
The chief prosecutor of New York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is backing an effort to decriminalize prostitution, arrests for which, according to a state senator advocating for the change, disproportionately impact black women. “I believe in decriminalization,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said during a “decriminalizing queerness” forum sponsored by the Lambda Independent Democrats…
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Justice for Jazmine: Immediate Release for Mom Whose 1-Year-Old Baby Was Ripped From Her Arms by NYPD [Updated]
Brooklyn Defender Services, an advocacy group that provides criminal, civil, family, and immigration legal defense to clients in need, announced that criminal charges have been dropped against Jazmine Headley, a 23-year-old mother who was the subject of a brutal viral video. In the video, filmed last Friday at a social services building in Brooklyn, Headley…
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Ken Thompson, Brooklyn, NY’s 1st Black District Attorney, Dies at Age 50
Brooklyn, N.Y., District Attorney Ken Thompson died Sunday after a battle with cancer, his family announced, NBC New York reports. He was 50 years old. In a statement released Tuesday, Thompson had announced a leave of absence in order to fight his cancer, not specifying what type of cancer he had or any time frame…