The family of body builder, Rafael Laureano has filed a $25m lawsuit against the NYPD for shooting their father in the back of the neck as he helped them during a raid.
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WATCH: NYPD Cop Picks a Fight with a Man on the Street. It was Almost Eric Garner All Over Again
In an eerily similar scene to the Eric Garner video, a plainclothes NYPD cop attacked a man on a New York sidewalk.
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Kalief Browder, Teenager Wrongfully Imprisoned and Tortured at Rikers Island, Commits Suicide
In 2013, after spending years behind bars in the notorious New York torture chamber known as Rikers Island without ever having been convicted of a crime, then 19 year-old Kalief Browder finally was allowed to return to his family and loved ones. However, those who had known the 16 year-old young man before he was tragically apprehended by an NYPD officer in 2010 (all because he erroneously thought Browder took someone’s backpack) quickly found that he had been profoundly damaged by his traumatic experiences on the island. As was reported on this blog in 2013,
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NYPD officer knocks teen unconscious with punch over suspicious cigarette [VIDEO]
Thank you Daily News
Marcel Hamer, 17, was punched out June 4, 2014 as he pleaded with the officer that he was smoking a tobacco cigarette, not marijuana. ‘You wanna get fucked up?’ the cop asks before dropping the hammer. The officer has since been suspended in the latest viral video black eye for the NYPD.
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Human Rights Lawyer Mom Arrested for ‘Blocking’ Sidewalk While Waiting for Family to Use Bathroom
Chaumtoli Huq was arrested while standing in front of the Times Square Ruby Tuesday, court papers show.
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Gawker Uncovers Trove NYPD Horror Stories
Media outlet Gawker is currently running an ongoing series documenting horror stories of reader run-ins with the NYPD. With “NYPD Harassment Stories,” writer Jason Parham is attempting to shed light on some of the department’s under-reported incidents of brutality.
“Police brutality, which we believe should be treated as a national crisis, is not limited to streets of New York or Los Angeles,” writes Parham. “But examining the actions of the country’s largest and most famous police force, and giving a voice to the victims of its violence, is a start.”
Here’s one reader’s story:
The incident happened about 2 years ago to my husband. My husband is a Dominican of dark complexion. He was exiting the 4 train in the Bronx after a long day of work, at the time he was working security. He saw some one he knew being stopped by the cops made eye contact with the police and kept it…
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NYPD Chief Ignores A Quarter of Police Misconduct Rulings
It’s rare enough that citizens file complaints against the police and even rarer that those complaints are investigated. So, it’s appalling to hear that in 25% of cases where a NYPD police misconduct review board ruled that an officer be disciplined, Chief Bill Bratton did nothing. The New York Times has the story:
In the first six months of 2014, the department has declined to sanction officers in over 25 percent of cases in which the board found cause for discipline. That rate is near the high end of what was seen during the last years of the Bloomberg administration, when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly were generally hostile to external oversight.
How officers are disciplined has come under new scrutiny following the death of Eric Garner during an arrest that included, the city medical examiner said, the use of a chokehold, which is banned by…
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NYPD Drag Naked Woman From Apartment, Leave Her Passed Out On The Floor
Denise Stewart, 48, who suffers with severe asthma, screamed “I can’t breathe” as she struggled to get away from police officers who held her against a wall after pulling her from her apartment on July 13.
The incident is all captured on video.
According to the Daily News, officers said they were called to the building to respond to a possible domestic violence dispute. Stewart’s lawyer claims the 911 call came from an apartment on another floor
NOT AGAIN: NYPD Places Pregnant Woman In Chokehold [VIDEO]
Less than a week ago Eric Garner was laid to rest after dying from being placed in an illegal chokehold by Staten Island police, and now it looks as if the NYPD has once again, broken the rules.
Their reasoning? Allegedly grilling illegally outside.
Captured on a cell phone video, 27-year-old Rosan Miller is noticeably pregnant, but that doesn’t stop the NYPD from placing the woman in what looks like a chokehold.
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Choke holds are deadly, and should be illegal.