The Manhattan US Attorney’s office announced Tuesday that they will not convene a grand jury against the New York Police Department Officer who killed Ramarley Graham. “After conducting a thorough and independent investigation, the US Attorney’s Office has determined that there is insufficient evidence to meet the high burden of …
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A rookie police officer, Peter Liang was convicted of manslaughter in Brooklyn today for the Nov. 20, 2014 shooting of Akai Gurley. The prosecution said Liang’s service weapon went off as he and his partner entered a dark stairwell where 28-year-old Gurley was walking with his girlfriend. The bullet ricocheted off …
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On August 17th, 2015, I attended a peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration for Malissa Williams, an unarmed homeless person of color murdered by Cleveland police, who were recently fired nearly four years after the fact. The demonstration began in Grand Central Station, as many of them do, and continued marching north …
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As they have every Monday since the non-indictment of Daniel Pantaleo, Black Lives Matter/NYCShutitdown marched in the streets last night for the victims of police brutality. This week, the victim was Yvonne McNeil, an unarmed black woman who was killed by NYPD in 2009. As usual, local organizer Keegan Stephan …
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John Antoine, an 86 year old man from Brooklyn, is suing the city after he was wrongfully tasered by the NYPD responding to a call about a suicidal man in his 20s. Via NY Daily News: “It is scary to think that our police force has such a lack of …
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We first reported on this as it was happening on Martin Luther King Jr Day. DiBlasio clearly wasn’t ready for this!
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New York City mayor Bill DiBlasio had hoped to be able to deliver a speech extolling the virtues of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr with minimal confrontations. It turns out, he found himself caught between the legacy of the past and the determination of Black Lives Matter to create an …
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“You’re going to end up like Sandra Bland” and “The day you get above a 90 average I’ll grow an Afro” are just two of the countless documented examples of overt racism and discrimination experienced by black students at Brooklyn Tech. The public high school, which is the largest high …
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NYC Shut It Down (Black Lives Matter:NYC) resumed their weekly Peoples Monday demonstrations in 2016, convening in Grand Central last evening to protest the killing of India Kager, a 27 year old Navy veteran and mother of two young boys. She was unarmed and driving with her boyfriend, Angelo Perry, …
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