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Dead Boston bombing suspect finally buried: police
Slain Boston Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has finally been buried, ending a growing row over what to do with his body, police in the Massachusetts town of Worcester said Thursday. “As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the…
Officer testifies stop-and-frisk program motivated by quotas and race
Officer secretly recorded conversation with his supervisor in which he is apparently told to target ‘male blacks 14 to 21′ The New York police department’s controversial stop-and-frisk program is being driven by a high-pressure quota system imposed upon lower-ranking officers by their supervisors, two NYPD officers testified in court this week. The claims were…
Gunman shoots three cops inside New Jersey police station
Three New Jersey police were shot Friday morning and a gunman was killed after the suspect, who was already under arrest, somehow managed to get his hands on a gun, according to published reports. The shootings happened inside the Gloucester Township police station early Friday morning. Police have not named…
Poll: 59 percent of New Yorkers believe NYPD favors whites
A majority of New Yorkers believe the city’s police department is biased against blacks and Hispanics and in favor of whites, according to a poll Tuesday. The New York Times poll found that 59 percent see the NYPD favoring whites, while only 27 percent think police treat all fairly. The most critical view…
Twitter hands over information on threat to Mike Tyson one-man show
Twitter has complied with a court order to provide the New York police department with information on a user who threatened to commit an Aurora-style attack at Mike Tyson‘s one-man show. The NYPD issued a subpoena on Tuesday when Twitter refused to co-operate with an investigation into an anonymous users’ posts referencing last month’s Aurora,…
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