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NEW YORK – The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation (OSI) has opened an investigation into the death of Brian Astarita, 65, who died on November 11...
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NEW YORK CITY - Tuesday, in a lawsuit brought by the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) against the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), the Supreme Court of the State of...
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New York, NY--Thursday, after Judge Erika M. Edwards denied petitioners’ motion to reconsider witnesses last week, lawyers for the petitioners in the historic judicial...
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Disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been charged with a misdemeanor count of forcible touching, a spokesperson for the New York State courts confirmed to The...
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NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced the indictment of State Trooper Christopher Baldner, on charges of Murder in the Second Degree,...
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Tuesday, Color Of Change and the Vera Institute of Justice spoke out against the ongoing crisis of violence and death taking place inside Rikers Island---where 14 people...
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NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today released security camera footage that the office obtained as part of its ongoing investigation into the death of...
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NEW YORK CITY – The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a new lawsuit against the NYPD for unlawfully denying the NYCLU’s requests for the full slate of NYPD databases...
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NEW YORK CITY– Tuesday, Governor Hochul issued an executive order to expand remote court hearings given the humanitarian crisis on Rikers Island. In response, the New York...
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NEW YORK CITY – Following this morning’s City Council oversight hearing regarding reducing the responsibilities of the NYPD, the New York Civil Liberties...
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In the following piece the New York Civil Liberties Union is calling for the disbanding of the NYPD's Strategic Response Group (also known as the "...
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The Rochester Police Department has announced that only one of seven suspended officers will face departmental charges for the death of Daniel Prude....
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In response to a report just filed by Peter Zimroth, the court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York, stop-and-frisk attorneys...
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NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced the indictment of ex-NYPD officer Errick Allen, on charges of Murder in the Second Degree, Manslaughter in...
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R. Kelly asked a teenage girl to dress like a Girl Scout during sex which he recorded on video, one of his alleged victims told a federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday....
Milton, are you denying or finding it insignificant that the TPLF attacked a federal army base...
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