Mayor Bill de Blasio says ‘very substantial’ cuts are coming to the NYPD amid calls to strip $1billion from the $6billion budget as it’s revealed 272 cops have filed for retirement since George Floyd’s death Bill de Blasio said on Friday that he is finalizing ‘very substantial ‘ cuts to NYPD City council speaker has called … Read more
An NYPD precinct commander was given a hero’s send-off by colleagues on Friday after he retired in protest over sweeping police reforms across New York. Deputy Inspector Richard Brea, who commanded the Bronx 46th Precinct, was treated to an NYPD helicopter fly by, police bagpipers and a ride in a vintage cop car during his … Read more
New York Police Department has suspended an officer for slamming a black man to the ground on Sunday and putting him in a chokehold – eight days after Governor Andrew Cuomo banned the tactic. The man, who gave his name to officers as Ricky Bellevue, was standing with two white men on the boardwalk at … Read more
The NYPD are investigating a potential hate crime, in the suspected poisoning of three officers at a New York Shake Shack. The officers – members of the Bronx’s 42nd Precinct assigned to protest detail – had fallen sick after consuming food from the Shake Shack on Broadway and Fulton Street in downtown Manhattan Friday night at … Read more
Three NYPD cops beat a cyclist with their batons after dragging him from his bike as he tries to get away amid mounting criticism of the police department’s ‘no tolerance’ curfew crackdown policy The cops were filmed on 50th Street and Third Avenue beating the cyclist A woman in a car filmed the cyclist as … Read more
New York City’s most senior uniformed officer has said he does not believe racism taints the view of the NYPD, as he called for a halt to the throwing of projectiles at police and condemned the wave of looting. Terence Monahan, who knelt with protesters in Washington Square Park on Monday night, said it was … Read more
Two Brooklyn lawyers have been charged for tossing a Molotov cocktail into a New York Police Department vehicle on Saturday morning during a protest decrying the police killing of George Floyd. Colinford Mattis, 32, a corporate attorney and member of Community Board 5 in East New York, and attorney Urooj Rahman, 31, were charged for … Read more
This is the shocking moment a protester charged with four counts of attempted murder appears to throw a Molotov cocktail at an occupied NYPD police cruiser. Samantha Shader, 27, is accused of chucking the petrol bomb at the police vehicle – which had four officers inside – in Brooklyn shortly after 10.30pm on Friday. Footage obtained … Read more
New videos posted on social media show the moments an NYPD officer appears to yank down a George Floyd protestor’s coronavirus mask to pepper spray the man during violent protests over the police-related fatal shooting, as police vehicles raced through a Brooklyn intersection crowded with demonstrators. The unnamed protestor in one video, which was posted … Read more
A woman from upstate New York who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at an occupied police cruiser during protests in Brooklyn on Friday night has been charged with four counts of attempted murder. Samantha Shader, 27, is accused of throwing the cocktail at the NYPD vehicle – which had four officers inside- in Crown Heights … Read more