A raised middle finger is a form of free speech, a court has ruled, allowing a lawsuit by a driver who made the vulgar gesture at a police officer. The decision came from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit last week, but it started with a spirited exchange in June 2017, […]
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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Abdul Aziz was praying with his four sons in the Linwood Mosque when he heard the gunshots. Rather than run from the noise, he ran toward it, grabbed the first thing he could find — a credit card machine — and flung it at the attacker. The man dropped a shotgun, […]
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Miami Dade County Jail/Getty Conor McGregor pictured in his mugshot from his arrest in Miami and after his most recent UFC fight. UFC superstar Conor McGregorh has been arrested in Miami Beach, Florida, after police say he smashed a fan’s cell phone when the man tried to take his picture […]
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Photo: Getty Images New York has a problem: Its police have a penchant for brutalizing its marginalized residents. After a verbal altercation at the Bellevue Shelter in Manhattan, on March 6, 2017, supervising sergeant Cordell Fitts and several other officers rushed and subdued a homeless man after he swung at […]
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Two Sacramento police officers who shot and killed an unarmed black man in his grandmother’s backyard last year will not face criminal prosecution, the Sacramento County district attorney announced on Saturday, stirring fresh outrage in a city roiled by protests over the killing. For nearly a year, community members and […]
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Image: Jassy Correia, right, was last seen entering a red Nissan Altima with Louis D. Coleman III, left. (BPDNews.com) Police have called off a manhunt for a woman from Boston after her remains were found in a trunk. According to a report, 23-year-old Jassy Correia, mother of a two-year-old daughter, […]
Read MoreDrones have become big sellers in hobbyist circles and prices on them are now low enough that just about anyone with the desire to fly one can pick up a decent quadcopter for a reasonable cost. But drones aren’t just recreational in nature, and law enforcement agencies have begun to adopt them in greater numbers. […]
Read MoreIn Fort Pierce, Florida, police officer Doug McNeal arrested Zachery Moellendick, 23, and Krista Leigh, 24, for shoplifting and put them in the back of his squad car. The couple started making out so McNeal played Barry White’s “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love.” Later, he allowed Leigh to smoke a cigarette in the […]
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CHICAGO — The glitz of downtown, the influx of tech jobs, the tourist dollars pouring into city coffers: None of those things are keeping many in Chicago’s black neighborhoods from loading their belongings into car trunks and moving vans and seeking better lives someplace else. As Chicagoans go to the […]
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Image: iStock Mack Buckley is lucky to be alive after a run-in with a Delaware State Police officer during what should have been a routine traffic stop. The video comes days after the release of a video showing a police officer in Delaware’s New Castle County beating a teenager during a drug […]
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[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. — They descended in droves on the sleepy harbor town, rousing it from its winter hibernation for a solemn ritual. Thousands of police officers in dress uniforms gathered on Wednesday at […]
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[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Wednesday. There’s a debate for the New York City public advocate’s race tonight at 7 p.m. on NY1. The election is on Feb. 26. Weather: Dry and cold, then afternoon snow, may turn to rain and sleet tonight. […]
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Photo: Karen Ducey (Stringer/Getty Images) In my 38 years of traversing God’s green Earth as a black ass black man, common sense has informed me that the interests of the police and the interests of individuals who look like me don’t always coincide. So news that the commanding officer for […]
Read More“Predictive policing” is the idea that you can feed crime stats to a machine-learning system and it will produce a model that can predict crime. It is garbage. It’s garbage for a lot of reasons. For one thing, you only find crime where you look for it: so if you send out the […]
Read MoreWater is wet, the sky is blue, and police don’t like people reporting speed traps and other law enforcement checkpoints. The New York Police Department sent a cease and desist letter to Google today, demanding that the company stop displaying DUI/DWI checkpoints in its Waze and Maps applications. “Individuals who post the locations of DWI […]
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PARIS — As he joined a “Yellow Vest” protest in Bordeaux, in southwestern France, Jean-Marc Michaud felt elated. His wife worked nearby and they had not seen each other in a month, so the march was a perfect opportunity to reunite. Instead, his life took a serious turn for the […]
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Over the last two years, Amazon has aggressively marketed its facial recognition technology to police departments and federal agencies as a service to help law enforcement identify suspects more quickly. It has done so as another tech giant, Microsoft, has called on Congress to regulate the technology, arguing that it […]
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WASHINGTON — Metro police are looking for a person of interest in an assault outside a station Thursday night that left a man with severe head injuries. In a statement Friday, Metro police said the victim was waiting for a bus outside the Addison Road Metro station at about 9 p.m. Thursday when a man […]
Read MoreJake is a beloved member of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, where he regularly walks his beat sniffing for drugs. It’s the perfect job for a 3-year-old golden retriever, though a few days ago, “Jake” actually had a too-close brush with the effects of the narcotics he’s screening for. Specifically, ecstasy, which our […]
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[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] When Jameek Lowery started filming inside a New Jersey police station, he was panicked and afraid. As he waited for an ambulance, he told officers that he was paranoid and insisted that they were […]
Read MoreAt Jefferson K-8 School in Warren, Ohio, school police officer Adam Chinchik noticed that a car kept parking in the no-parking zone between two disabled spaces in front of the school. Turns out that it was the school principal’s car. Apparently Chinchik apparently warned the principal and then finally issued a citation. […]
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reader comments 16 with 13 posters participating Share this story A Facebook executive was the target of a swatting hoax that resulted in armed police briefly detaining him and searching his home as they investigated a false report of an active shooting and hostage situation involving pipe bombs, Palo Alto, California, Police Department officials said. […]
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