New York City agrees to pay $13 million to 2020 racial injustice protesters in historic class action
New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020.
NYPD officer cites 'courtesy cards,' used by friends and family of cops, as source of corruption
A New York City police officer is speaking out against the use of โcourtesy cardsโ by friends and relatives of cops, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that has fueled both reckless driving and racist traffic stops.
Bomb-sniffing dogs? Check. Times Square crowd? Not this year
A man wears a protective mask during the coronavirus pandemic in Times Square Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, in New York. Small groups of revelers, some wearing glittery hats, filmed their distant view of Times Square on their phones and broke out in cheers at midnight. Preparing for the worst, the New York Police Department deployed its bomb-sniffing dogs and sand-filled sanitation trucks intended to guard against explosions. โItโs dead,โ said Ali Jameel early Thursday, who owns a store a block from Times Square. โComing to Times Square is a family tradition for some.
Prosecutor: Video shows NYC dismemberment suspect buying saw
Tyrese Haspil, 21, is escorted out of the 7th precinct by NYPD detectives, Friday, July 17, 2020, in New York.Haspil faces a murder charge in the death of Fahim Saleh, 33-year-old tech entrepreneur who was found dismembered inside his luxury Manhattan condo. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
Personal assistant charged in dismembered tech CEO's killing
Tyrese Haspil, 21, is escorted out of the 7th precinct by NYPD detectives, Friday, July 17, 2020, in New York.Haspil faces a murder charge in the death of Fahim Saleh, 33-year-old tech entrepreneur who was found dismembered inside his luxury Manhattan condo. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
NYPD officer suspended without pay following disturbing apparent chokehold incident
(CNN) Following a "swift" investigation by the New York Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau, a police officer involved in a "disturbing apparent chokehold incident in Queens" has been suspended without pay, according to New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea. The NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau launched an active use of force investigation after video of an arrest surfaced on social media. The video shows several officers affecting the arrest of an individual, with one in particular appearing to put him in a chokehold. Another officer is observed tapping the back of the officer who had the individual in an apparent chokehold, and that officer appears to release his hold. Body camera released by the NYPD shows the moments leading up to the incident.
Looters were able to target high-end stores in New York due to law enforcement intelligence failure, NYPD official says
(CNN) -- Looters in New York City were able to tear through some of the most expensive, high-end stores in the city because of an intelligence failure, according to a high-ranking police official. The coordinated effort of looters to target the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo without the police department's knowledge points to something the NYPD missed, said John Miller, the NYPD's chief of counterterrorism and intelligence. "On the looting, that's an intelligence failure," Miller said at a briefing on Saturday. The looting extended further south into Herald Square, where looters were even able to penetrate the iconic Macy's building, with officers dragging looters out of the store late into the night. Looters break the windows and they were never interested in marching in the first place, Miller said.