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Defying Ban, Students March To Brooklyn

December 10, 2014 Colin Moyhihan, www.nytimes.com , , ,
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.

Garner’s Public Defender: Cops & Prosecutors ‘A Team’

December 10, 2014 Joseph Doyle, Bina Ahmad and Michael Rooney, www.vanityfair.com , , ,
When a non-officer is accused of a crime, invoking his or her Miranda rights is the typically the role of the accused and their defense attorney. Yet, when a police officer is the accused, the entire department and district attorney’s office defer to an employment policy, rather than the overarching public interest of investigating serious crime by police officers. If we as a society expect police to be held accountable for unlawful, and sometimes abusive and deadly actions, we must rid these cases of secrecy, favorable bias, and conflicts of interest. Immediate answers include independent prosecutors and investigators, or employing the use of public preliminary hearings.

Woman Pleads With NYPD Officers: ‘Where Is Your Outrage?’

December 9, 2014 Alexander Reed Kelly, www.truthdig.com , ,
“I do not believe in your heart you are racists. I think you are afraid, and I’m telling you, if you speak up, we will have your back front and sideways,” a woman told NYPD officers in Union Square during Saturday’s protests against the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case. On Dec. 3, the Staten Island jury decided not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the killing of Garner. In July, Pantaleo seized Garner in a chokehold minutes before Garner died from a heart attack. Protests swept the streets of New York and cities across the country in response to the Garner verdict and another grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the August killing of 18-year-old Ferguson, Mo., resident Michael Brown.

Cop Who Killed Garner Sued By African Americans Three Times For Abuse

December 6, 2014 Kevin McCoy, www.thv11.com , , , ,
The Garner case wasn't the first time Pantaleo, 29, was accused of misconduct, however. Darren Collins and Tommy Rice alleged in a 2013 federal court lawsuit that Pantaleo and at least four other officers subjected them to "humiliating and unlawful strip searches in public view" after handcuffing them during a March 2012 arrest on Staten Island. The court complaint charged that the cops, searching for illegal drugs, "pulled down the plaintiffs' pants and underwear, and touched and searched their genital areas, or stood by while this was done in their presence." Pantaleo and three of the officers repeated the searches after they took the suspects to Staten Island's 120th police precinct, the complaint alleged.

“I Can’t Breathe”: Blacks & Whites Actually Breathe Different Air

December 6, 2014 Max Ehrenfreund, www.washingtonpost.com , , ,
There's a profound truth to one of the mottoes of protesters in New York who are upset about a grand jury's decision not to indict an officer in the death of Eric Garner on Staten Island this summer. "We can't breathe," they have been chanting. And in New York, as in most American cities, the air itself has been tainted by decades of disparity in public policy. We'll never know if Garner would have survived the altercation if he hadn't had asthma. We also don't know what caused the asthma, which he developed as a child. What we do know is that asthma is much more common among blacks than whites, and that air pollution is much worse in communities of color nationwide.

Another Grand Jury Injustice: No Indictment In Eric Garner Killing

December 4, 2014 J David Goodman and Al Baker, www.nytimes.com , , , ,
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.

New York City Protests Eric Garner Decision

December 4, 2014 Hunter Stuart, www.huffingtonpost.com , , , , ,
New York City residents took to the streets on Wednesday after a grand jury said it would not bring charges in the death of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died in July after a police officer placed him in a chokehold. Garner, 43, was being arrested for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes on July 17 when New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo placed him in an illegal chokehold. The medical examiner ruled Garner's death a homicide, but the grand jury said Wednesday it would not indict Pantaleo. Demonstrators gathered across the city, from the Staten Island neighborhood where Garner died to high-traffic areas in midtown Manhattan. They assembled in Times Square, Union Square and Lincoln Center. They marched down Broadway and blocked traffic on the West Side Highway. Police scrambled to keep the crowd from disrupting the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center. Nearly three dozen demonstrators were reportedly arrested, though the protests remained largely non-violent.

NYPD Sent Investigators To Ferguson To Monitor ‘Professional Agitators’

December 1, 2014 Tom Hays, www.AP.org , , , ,
The Garner video — along with a medical examiner's finding that the chokehold contributed to his death on the streets of Staten Island — should give a grand jury ample reason to indict, said Garner's mother, Gwen Carr. The NYPD sent detectives to Missouri to gather intelligence on "professional agitators" who frequent protests and to share strategies for quelling violence, said Police Commissioner William Bratton. Police also have kept in touch with community leaders on Staten Island to coordinate the response to the grand jury decision. The Garner case stems from a July 17 confrontation between Officer Daniel Pantaleo and other NYPD officers who stopped him on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. The video shot by an onlooker shows the 43-year-old Garner, who was black, telling the officers to leave him alone and refusing to be handcuffed.

NYPD Cracks Down On Ferguson Thanksgiving Day Parade Protest

November 28, 2014 Dell Cameron, www.dailydot.com , , ,
Multiple arrests were made by the New York Police Department (NYPD) on Thursday morning as protesters incensed by the lack of criminal charges brought againstFerguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson engaged incivil disobedience at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. NYPD confronted around 100 demonstrators who attempted to enter the Manhattan parade while carrying protest signs. One such sign read: “From the first Thanksgiving to this one, fuck ur [sic] celebration of genocide.” As many as seven of the protesters were arrested by officers, who, according to eyewitnesses, violently pushed, pulled, and shoved the demonstrators to the ground after kettling them with metal barriers.

NYPD Commissioner Bratton Splattered With Fake Blood At Protest

November 26, 2014 Alyssa Figueroa, www.alternet.org , , ,
Protests took place across the country last night after the grand jury in Ferguson failed to indict officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown. In NYC, thousands of protesters swarmed Times Square and eventually shut down the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Triborough bridges. In the midst of the Times Square protest, one activist threw fake blood on NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton. Bratton has been fiercely criticized for the NYPD's broken-windows policy of policing that focuses on patrolling communities of color and cracking down on low-level crimes. His theory is replicated in police departments nationwide. In Ferguson, Officer Darren Wilson approached Michael Brown for not walking on the sidewalk.

Ray McGovern Describes Brutal Arrest At Petraeus Event (VIDEO)

November 1, 2014 Russian Times, www.rt.com , ,
Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst-turned-antiwar activist, shared details with RT on Friday about an incident the night before in New York City during which he was arrested for trying to enter a public event. McGovern, 75, says he had ticket to see former CIA director David Petraeus speak Thursday night at the 92nd Street Y, a “world-class cultural and community center,” according to its website, but wasarrested before he could get inside. “I was warned as soon as I got to the ticket-taker, ‘Ray, you’re not welcome here,’” he recalled to RT. An adamant critic of the wartime policies of the current White House administration and that of George W. Bush, McGovern has previously been arrested while demonstrating at public events. Speaking to RT this week, he said he intended on asking a question to Gen. Petraeus during an advertised question-and-answer session following Thursday’s event, but was forcefully removed by police before it was underway.

Pranksters Expose The NYPD’s Serious Racial Profiling Problem

November 1, 2014 Alex Smith, www.ryot.org , , ,
The NYPD was just caught racial profiling yet again. This time, the proof is on video and it’s so extreme, it will make your stomach drop. Two YouTube pranksters staged an experiment — arguing in front of the same policeman while they were dressed in Western clothes and, then again, twenty minutes later in Muslim clothes. The difference between the officer’s response to the scenarios is stark. When Adam Saleh and Sheiikh Akbar were dressed in Western city garb and speaking in American accents, the police offer pretended not to see them. Just twenty minutes later, they wore what they called Muslim “cultural clothes” and spoke with a foreign accent while they argued. What followed was one really angry officer.

NY Releases List Of Military Gear & Equipment

October 25, 2014 Shawn Musgrave, www.muckrock.com , ,
Over the past several years, more than 120 law enforcement agencies across the state, from the NYPD to Tuckahoe, have obtained military-grade equipment through the Pentagon’s 1033 program, which transfers excess military equipment to state and local police across the country. Late last week, for the first time, state officials released a detailed inventory of the equipment obtained by individual agencies. A review of the data revealed: Since enrolling in 1995, the NYPD has obtained four armored trucks valued at $65,000 each and two former artillery vehicles known as mortar carriers valued at more than $200,000 each. The NYPD received one such heavily armored vehicle in June 2012.

NYPD Has Paid Over $400 Million In Settlements

October 24, 2014 JPat Brown, www.muckrock.com , ,
As part of an ongoing investigation, MuckRock's Todd Feathers asked the NYPD for a list of all civil rights lawsuits brought against the department. To his surprise, what he got was every case brought against the NYPD since 2009, and how much those cases cost them. To all of MuckRock's surprise, that amount is almost half a billion dollars. We've only just begun to look through the data, but already there's a couple interesting take-aways: one, the sheervolume of capital that is being spent on settlements, and two, that the overwhelming majority of these cases end with the NYPD at fault. While's there a handful of Zero Disposition and Administrative Closing statuses, the Settlement category outnumbers them three to one.

Parents Of Kids Murdered By Cops Confront NYPD

October 3, 2014 Amy K. Nelson, www.animalnewyork.com , , , ,
It was around 7:30PM when Margarita Rosario took the microphone at the Sunset Park rec center, turned to a table that seated five police officers and told the story of how her son had been murdered by NYPD cops. “My son, Anthony Rosario, had 14 bullets in his back, face down on the floor,” Rosario said. “Now who is the criminal? My son? Or [the police officers]?” Rosario, three others parents whose children had been killed by the NYPD, and hundreds of residents in this diverse community, came together at an old gymnasium on Wednesday night for a town hall on police brutality.
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