New York City (NYC)

Officials Ban Die-Ins At Grand Central Station

January 10, 2015 Alyssa Figueroa, www.alternet.org Resist! Eric Garner, New York City (NYC), Racial Justice, Transportation

On Tuesday, New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced it would no longer permit die-ins at Grand Central Terminal. Since the failure to indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner, protesters have been participating in die-ins at the Terminal nearly every night. This sort of demonstration has become an increasingly popular tactic of the Black Lives Matter movement, in which protesters raise awareness of racist police violence by lying down to symbolize its end result: the death of people of color. “They were happening on a regular basis since the Eric Garner non-indictment,” said Aaron Donovan, spokesman for the MTA. “Not exactly nightly, but almost nightly.”

#CarryTheNames 24 Hour Vigil In Grand Central Station

January 7, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), killed by police, New York City (NYC), Police abuse, police brutality, Racism, Vigil

Participants called it a "beautiful action" -- a 24 hour vigil in Grand Central Station in New York City where people carried the names of those who have been killed in police violence. "We #CarryTheNames--reading the names and stories of some of the many killed over the years because of racism. Vinie Burrows came and read a Langston Hughes poem. Dragonfly sat in the middle of the signs with all the names and sang. We marched around the information booth singing 'I can hear my brother crying, 'I can't breathe.'" The Village Voice reports on Rev. Billy Talen being arrested after 18 hours of the protest: According to a police spokeswoman, Talen was told to remove signs placed on the floor that could be a hazard to commuters walking by. After an officer tried to take one of the signs, police said, Talen pushed the officer. He was arrested with charges of obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct shortly after 12:30 p.m. Talen was the only person at the protest who was arrested. . . The vigil had gone on peacefully for eighteen hours before the arrest, and Savitri said she's glad the arrest didn't stop the protest, which continued until 5 p.m. "This is a First Amendment violation," she says. "And it's terrible, because it keeps us from talking about the lives being taken by police." Talen is expected to spend the night in "The Tombs."

Judge Could Decide To Release Eric Garner Grand Jury Documents

January 6, 2015 Jonathan Allen, www.Reuters.com Organize! Eric Garner, Law, New York City (NYC), NYPD, Racial Justice

A New York judge will hear arguments later this month whether to publicly release the records of a grand jury hearing in the case of an unarmed black man killed after a policeman put him in a chokehold while arresting him for peddling loose cigarettes. After an unusually lengthy session lasting nine weeks, the grand jury voted in December not to indict the police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, for his role in the asphyxiation death of Eric Garner on a Staten Island sidewalk last summer. Captured on video, Garner's repeated cries of "I can't breathe!" as Pantaleo holds him by his neck have become a slogan for protesters at rallies across the United States who accuse police forces of being hostile towards black citizens.

Activists Mobilize For Right To Counsel In Eviction

January 6, 2015 Eleanor J. Bader, www.truth-out.org Organize! Law, New York City (NYC), Real Estate

Indeed, the imperative to provide free legal representation to indigent and low-income tenants not only has the support of CASA, but also of dozens of community agencies and legal services providers - including the city and state bar associations and numerous judges - throughout the five boroughs of New York City. The effort was kick-started by a bill, pending before the City Council, called Intro 214, that is poised to make New York City the first municipality in the country to provide free legal counsel to every person at risk of eviction who needs it. "We are not going to bring about justice in the criminal justice system until we address social crises including homelessness and poverty," said City Council member Mark Levine, the legislation's coauthor, at a December press conference touting the bill. "The issues are inextricably linked."

#BlackBrunchNYC Disrupts Diners To Protest Police Brutality

January 6, 2015 Lilly Workneh, www.huffingtonpost.com Organize! Food and Agriculture, New York City (NYC), Protest, Racial Justice

In a seemingly new approach to demonstrating, protesters in New York interrupted patrons at various restaurants on Sunday to declare injustice in America and call attention to problematic policing tactics. The event was part of a movement dubbed #BlackBrunch in which protesters purposely selected eateries across the city, or places they referred to as "white spaces," to voice their outrage over police violence against Blacks. On Sunday, about three dozen demonstrators marched into restaurants and briefly interrupted mid-day meals as they read aloud the names of African Americans killed by police, Yahoo reports. “There is a war on Black people in America that cannot be ignored and the Black Brunch tactic is one that is committed to interrupting ‘business as usual’ until the war against us has ended,” reads a statement written by #BlackBrunch organizers.

Time To Stand Up To The NYPD

January 4, 2015 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Bill De Blasio, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Bratton, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, NYPD, Police abuse, police brutality, Racism

What kind of relationship do communities and individuals want to have with the police? Do police want the respect of the communities and people they serve? How does a city create a vision for the type of policing it wants to see and then achieve it? Unfortunately, the NYPD union leadership seems committed to making things worse. Patrick Lynch has threatened “When these funerals are over, those responsible will be called on the carpet and held accountable.” What does that mean? Is he threatening a police coup of city government? Leaked emails and comments in chat rooms show that the NYPD is working with GOP politicians to continue to escalate protests in order to remove de Blasio from office. De Blasio should not back down. The public is with the mayor because they know there are serious problems within the NYPD. He should escalate his efforts for positive police reforms. It is time to talk about an era of community control of policing where structures are put in place that give the community power in their relationship with police.

Cops Who Turned Their Backs On de Blasio Should Resign

December 31, 2014 John Tarleton, www.indypendent.org Educate! New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality

Rank-and-file cops are upset with a moderately liberal mayor who has failed to offer unconditional support for the most savage acts of police brutality such as the chokehold death of Eric Garner. De Blasio’s innocuous comment that he has warned his Black teen-age son to be careful in his dealings with the police“who are there to protect him” has also become a source of simmering police anger. When members of the NYPD turned their backs again to de Blasio on Saturday, they expressed their disdain not just for the mayor, but for the residents of this majority people-of-color city who gave him his landslide victory last year. They also repudiated the basic democratic ideal that agents of the state who are given the legal power to walk around the city with 9mm semi-automatic pistols on their hips and arrest or even kill people when they deem it necessary should be answerable to civilian leaders, not the other way around.

Today’s Protests Are Centuries In The Making

December 30, 2014 Janos Marton, www.gothamgazette.com Educate! New York City (NYC), police brutality, Racial Justice

The tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu offer New Yorkers an opportunity to have a real conversation about our city's sordid racial history. Racial politics may have come a long way in a city that prides itself on multiculturalism and progressivism, but community memories are long, and discussing the past must be part of moving forward. Mayor de Blasio recently acknowledged that some of the conflicts that have surfaced in recent weeks "go back centuries in their origins." In New York City's black community, those origins are rooted in nearly 400 years of distrust and mistreatment. From slavery to Jim Crow, from unchecked white mobs to oppressive white police forces, the black experience in New York has been marked by pain, destruction, and neglect. There is no question that many in power have made an effort in recent decades to correct the wrongs of the past. But examining our history has to be part of the healing.

Support For Two Key Police Reform Proposals Crosses Party Lines

December 30, 2014 Ariel Edwards-Levy, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! New York City (NYC), police brutality, Police the Police

Americans agree across party lines on some proposed police reform policies, according to the results of a Washington Post/ABC News poll released last weekend. Eighty-six percent of Americans support the use of body cameras, the poll found, and 87 percent are in favor of a policy requiring an investigation by an independent, outside prosecutor whenever police kill an unarmed civilian. Unlike many of the other issues related to recent police shootings or the subsequent protests, the Washington Post notes that the proposals spark relatively little divide across the ideological spectrum. More than three-quarters of both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans back both the use of body cameras and independent prosecutors.

Cops And GOP Teaming Up Against de Blasio

December 30, 2014 Max Blumenthal, www.alternet.org Educate! New York City (NYC), NYPD, Police the Police

When hundreds of cops from around the country and as far away as Canada turned their backs on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos, the NYPD officer shot to death alongside his partner Wenjian Liu by a deranged gunman, they fired the first salvo in a carefully coordinated political operation aimed at discrediting the liberal mayor and shattering the ongoing anti-police brutality protest movement. AlterNet has obtained emails revealing plans to organize a series of anti-de Blasio protests around the city until the summer of 2015. Billed as a non-partisan movement in support of “the men and women of the NYPD,” the protests are being orchestrated by a cast of NYPD union bosses and local Republican activists allied with Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor who recently called on de Blasio to “say you’re sorry to [NYPD officers] for having created a false impression of them.”

NYC To Try Settling Suit With Eric Garner’s Family

December 27, 2014 Associated Press, www.bigstory.ap.org Educate! Eric Garner, Law, New York City (NYC), NYPD

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer will attempt to negotiate a settlement of the $75 million civil rights claim brought forth by Eric Garner's family. If an agreement is reached, it would avoid what could be a long trial in federal court. And if a settlement is pursued now, it would also keep Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration out of the process. Officials with the comptroller's office said Wednesday that the push is part of Stringer's strategy to settle major civil rights claims before lawsuits are even filed. It was not clear that a settlement would be reached.

Tens Of Thousands Surge Through Manhattan, Decry Police Violence

December 15, 2014 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Eric Garner, Ferguson, New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality

Like the waves of a tsunami tens of thousands surged through Manhattan on Saturday to decry police violence and the killings of unarmed Blacks. The Millions March reflected growing public anger towards a broken justice system tilting towards police impunity for misconduct. Marchers chanted “Black Lives Matter,” I can’t Breathe,” and “No Justice, No Peace,” popular catch-phrases of the growing movement.The Millions March was “unlike anything I’ve seen since the civil rights movement,” said Tippy Brooks, an activist who has been involved in social justice issues for 50 years.

Defying Ban, Students March To Brooklyn

December 10, 2014 Colin Moyhihan, www.nytimes.com Resist! Eric Garner, New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality

The grand jury decision last week not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner did not go unnoticed at East Side Community High School. The principal of the school, in the East Village, distributed a letter to students lamenting the decision. A “teach-in” was planned with activities like writing to the families of Mr. Garner and Michael Brown, whose shooting death by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., also passed without indictment, and writing to police precinct stations inviting officers to come talk with students about their jobs.

Dec 13: Millions March NYC Demands Justice Against Police Brutality

December 10, 2014 Millions March NYC, www.millionsmarchnyc.org Resist! Ferguson, New York City (NYC), police brutality

A coalition of young activists led by Black organizers in New York has called for a Millions March to take place on Saturday, December 13, gathering in Washington Square Park at 2 PM. The mass rally will take place in Manhattan; tens of thousands have already confirmed their attendance on Facebook. The organizers hope millions of people will go peacefully into the streets all over the country to disrupt business as usual, express their anger, and demand justice for victims of police violence and institutionalized racism. Lead organizer Synead Nichols: “We want people to shut down their cities for justice. We are continuing where the freedom fighters of the Civil Rights Movement left of . We are a new generation of young multiracial activists willing to take up the torch and we’re not going to stand for this anymore.”

Another Grand Jury Injustice: No Indictment In Eric Garner Killing

December 4, 2014 J David Goodman and Al Baker, www.nytimes.com Educate! Eric Garner, Law, New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality

A Staten Island grand jury on Wednesday ended the criminal case against a white New York police officer whose chokehold on an unarmed black man led to the man’s death, a decision that drew condemnation from elected officials and touched off a wave of protests. The fatal encounter in July was captured on videos and seen around the world. But after viewing the footage and hearing from witnesses, including the officer who used the chokehold, the jurors deliberated for less than a day before deciding that there was not enough evidence to go forward with charges against the officer, Daniel Pantaleo, 29, in the death of the man, Eric Garner, 43. Officer Pantaleo, who has been on the force for eight years, appeared before the grand jury on Nov. 21, testifying that he did not intend to choke Mr. Garner, who was being arrested for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. He described the maneuver as a takedown move, adding that he never thought Mr. Garner was in mortal danger.

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