A New York police officer is facing vehicular manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges after he struck and killed a man with his car Wednesday while driving drunk in the Bronx. Officer Luis Arnao, 25, was drunk when he slammed into Tyre Chisholm, 22. Initially, Arnao sped off before finally turning around and returning to the […]
NEW YORK-Videos and pictures have surfaced of policemen dirty dancing with women at the West Indian Labor Day Parade in Brooklyn. The women were part of the parade and were dressed in traditional parade clothing. Fox New York reports: A video has surfaced on a website called worldstarhiphop.com that shows what appear to be cops […]
NEW YORK — Activist and MSNBC Politicsnation host Rev. Al Sharpton continues to advocate for victims of police brutality by taking up the case of 56-year-old Denise Gay. Gay, who was sitting outside of her Brooklyn home last weekend, was shot and killed by a stray bullet during a shootout between police and two men. […]
NEW YORK — The NYPD has released video of a shooting in Brooklyn on Labor Day in which an innocent woman was killed bu a stray bullet. The woman, 56-year-old Denise Gay, was sitting outside her home when she was the unfortunate victim in a hail of gunfire between two men and NYPD officers. The […]
NEW YORK — A surveillance video shows that a Brooklyn mother may have been killed by police bullets five blocks from where the Labor Day parade took place this past Monday. Denise Gay, who was an innocent bystander, was killed in a crossfire of bullets between gang members and policemen. The video, which has not […]
A Brooklyn councilman was arrested after a dustup with the NYPD at the West Indian Day Parade yesterday afternoon. The councilman, Jumaane Williams, was detained by police after walking in a “frozen zone” near the Brooklyn Museum. An argument ensued and fists started flying when a police captain was punched by an unknown bystander. An […]
NEW YORK — Several alleged members of the “Crips” gang were arrested in Brooklyn after posting about a “Crip Holiday” on Twitter. The NYPD’s gang unit, which recently started a separate unit to monitor Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites received a “tip” about a gathering in Amersfort Park in East Flatbush. The New […]
NEW YORK — The NYPD has formed a unit to monitor social media outlets Facebook, Twitter and Myspace to find out information about illegal flash mobs, house parties and gang fights. The New York Daily News reports: Newly named Assistant Commissioner Kevin O’Connor, one of the department’s online and gang gurus, has been put in […]
NEW YORK — Officer Daniel Hernandez is suing the NYPD for denying him overtime after he shot and paralyzed Ahmed Evans who is suing Hernandez over the shooting. The New York Daily News reports: Officer Daniel Hernandez claims that as a result of being kept off the street since July 2008, he’s been “damaged in […]
NEW YORK — Two female African American police officers have made history by becoming the first top cops to command a city precinct. Deputy Inspector Juanita Holmes and Capt. Vanessa Kight are now the top cops at Brooklyn’s 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvestant. Women comprise 17.2% of uniformed officers in the NYPD. African-Americans make up 16.5% […]
NEW YORK — Tyre Davis, a 17-year-old from the Bronx is claiming that NYPD officers, Joseph Murphy and Jose Ocasio, beat him after he made a comment about “doo-doo” when one of the officers stepped in dog excrement. The New York Daily News reports: He said Murphy and Ocasio followed him when he was released […]
I can’t seem to erase the conjured images of New York City Police Department officers, savagely beating patrons outside Tammany Hall from my psyche. I didn’t witness it personally, but the bit of video footage caught on camera was enough to fill me with rage. The riot that occurred on Tuesday, June 28, in which […]
