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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 …

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 …

We first reported on this as it was happening on Martin Luther King Jr Day. DiBlasio clearly wasn’t ready for this!