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Actor Hugh Jackman chased by woman with an electric razor
Australian actor Hugh Jackman has vowed to “do anything” to protect his family, after US police arrested an alleged stalker who chased him into a New York gym with an electric razor. The star was outside the gym on Saturday morning when the 47-year-old woman approached him, a New York…
Plaintiff in NYPD lawsuit condemns ‘humiliating’ stop-and-frisks
In video published Monday, the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the New York Police Department explained the horrors of stop-and-frisk searches. “The whole experience is humiliating, it’s embarrassing, and really, you know, it doesn’t matter what kind of person you are, how tough you are, whatever, it’s a…
Protests continue in NYC after slain boy’s funeral
Coinciding with the funeral of Kimani Gray on Saturday, peaceful protests against the New York Police Department continued throughout Brooklyn. The death of 16-year-old Gray on March 9 ignited a community firestorm over the tactics of the NYPD, whose officers shot the teenager more than half a dozen times because…
‘Cannibal cop’ trial begins in New York
Opening statements were scheduled Monday in the sensational trial of a New York policeman accused of plotting to kidnap and eat women. Prosecutors were to tell a jury that Gilberto Valle, a promising New York Police Department officer, conspired to kidnap women and illegally accessed the police database for detailed…
NYPD accused of violating civil rights agreement in new lawsuit
The New York Police Department’s surveillance of the local Muslim community constitutes a violation of rules governing the department’s monitoring of political activity, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court. The Associated Press reported that the suit, filed by a group of civil rights lawyers, accuses the…
Court strikes down NYPD’s ‘stop and frisk’ policy
In an interim order issued Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin, the New York Police Department is required to immediately halt its controversial “stop and frisk” policy unless officers have a specific cause to initiate a search. The ruling comes ahead of a full trial for two lawsuits filed…
NYC police seek unidentified woman in second subway-push murder
Police are seeking an identified woman who witnesses say pushed a man to his death in front of an elevated train, the second such incident in recent weeks. According to CBS New York, the woman was seen walking up and down the platform mumbling to herself before abruptly shoving the…
NYPD officers stop-and-frisk black teen for being ‘a f*cking mutt’
New York Police Department officers berated a young African-American man named Alvin during a so-called stop-and-frisk in 2011, an audio recording obtained by The Nation revealed. In the clip, the officers tell Alvin that he is being stopped because he kept looking at them with his hood up. As he…
Protesters blow whistles against New York police department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy
New Yorkers blew whistles Thursday in protest against the police department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy aimed at getting guns off the streets. At small protests in Harlem, Manhattan and other corners of the city dozens of people blew on whistles handed out by organizers to show their opposition to what they…
New York Times complains NYPD assaulted a photographer
The New York Times has complained to the city’s police department after one of its photographers said he was assaulted by officers who arrested him on Saturday. Robert Stolarik, a freelance photographer, claimed a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer “slammed” his camera into his face before he was dragged…
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