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‘You Wanna Ride the Lightning?’ NYC Cops Heard in Video Threatening Students With Taser
Recently surfaced video shows two New York City police officers apparently taunting students from a Brooklyn high school, threatening them with a Taser as they walk down the street. The video, recorded in mid-March, appears to show one officer with his baton out in his hand as he and his partner walk down the street,…
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NYPD Officer Reprimanded for Tweeting #BlackLivesMatter From Her Personal Twitter Account
An officer with the New York City Police Department’s 76th Precinct is in hot water with her superiors after she reportedly replied to a department Twitter post with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Police Officer Gwendolyn Bishop is black, and the New York Daily News reports that she was hit with departmental charges and accused of inappropriately writing…
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NYC Cops Accused of Using Choke Hold on Black Teen Who Seemed to Be Having Seizure: Report
The New York City Police Department is under fire after residents at Brooklyn’s Pink Houses accused officers of using a banned choke hold Monday on a teen who seemed to be having some type of seizure during the encounter. Witnesses identified the teen as 17-year-old Zavon Hodges. According to the New York Daily News, a…
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Is NYPD Illegally Recording Black Lives Matter Protests, or Just Really Bad at Record Keeping?
Imagine there was a police department that sent video teams to record Black Lives Matter and Occupy protests hundreds of times over the course of a few years, going against specific department guidelines for when and how such operations are to take place, and when called and questioned on it, it reportedly refused to give…
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Disturbing Video Shows NYPD Cop Using Taser on Pregnant 17-Year-Old
New York City police are looking into an incident in which an officer deployed a stun gun on a pregnant 17-year-old in the Bronx during a chaotic scene that was caught on camera. WABC reports that officers were called to an apartment building in the Wakefield section of the Bronx on a separate issue when…
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Judge Orders NYPD to Disclose Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protesters
A judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to disclose documents and video revealing the surveillance of Black Lives Matter protesters at the city’s Grand Central Terminal in 2014 and 2015. The New York Daily News reports that protester James Logue challenged the NYPD’s denial of a Freedom of Information Act request that…
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Officer Who Fatally Shot Amadou Diallo in 1999 to Be Named Sergeant of the Year
One of the New York City police officers who shot and killed unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo in 1999 will be honored as Sergeant of the Year Tuesday at the Sergeant’s Benevolent Association, the New York Daily News reports. Sgt. Kenneth Boss, who currently works with the NYPD aviation unit, is receiving the award for rappelling…
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Boy Who Lost Parents in 2015 Murder-Suicide Gets Trip to Disney World From NYPD
A 7-year-old Bronx, N.Y., orphan who lost his parents to murder-suicide was gifted a dream vacation by members of the New York City Police Department, who told him that he has “godmothers and godfathers for the rest of [his] life,” the New York Post reports. Tyrone Lowe Jr. found his mother shot dead by his…
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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton Announces Plans to Step Down by End of 2017
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton confirmed Monday that he has no intentions of remaining the head of the Police Department past the end of 2017, CBS News reports. “I do not intend to stay into a second term,” Bratton said during an unrelated news conference with New York City’s mayor. According to CBS,…