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New York City's crime rates are still much higher than before criminal justice reforms in 2019. [Dec. 13, 2023]
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Something is very wrong and it needs to be recognized and corrected:
A black man with a lengthy arrest record dies in a subway car after being restrained for harassing passengers, and a wave of outrage and indignation erupts, while at the same moment, a black man (evidently)…
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Kathy Hochul was asked to leave the wake for slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller this afternoon. She was only in the venue for about 10 minutes before she was asked to leave.
A person was heard saying “Get her outta here” from inside the crowded funeral home.
On her way to her…
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Six teenagers burst into a high-end clothing store called Ava Galerie, located at 161 Bowery in Lower Manhattan, at around 5:10 p.m. on Wednesday and removed clothing off the racks.
They went to leave, but were intercepted by a 24-year-old female employee. A physical struggle…
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A man approached a 52-year-old woman on board an E train arriving at the Queens Plaza station at 10:45 a.m. on May 24.
He warned the woman to “look somewhere else,” then began to punch her multiple times in the head.
When the train came to a stop, her attacker ran off and fled…
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Samyia Spain and her twin sister, Sanyia, were with a group of friends and relatives inside Slope Natural Plus on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope around 2:20 a.m. Sunday when the two were attacked.
They been at a party earlier in the night.
The attack came after the suspect tried…
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A 36-year-old woman and her 7-year-old daughter were waiting at a food truck on Wyckoff Avenue near Jefferson Street (East Williamsburg / Bushwick) around 8:30 p.m. when a man ran up and tried to snatch the girl.
The mom struggled with the suspect and was able to break the man’s…
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Just before 9:45 a.m., cops received word that pedestrians were being attacked by several individuals who were throwing objects at them on Central Park North in Harlem.
The suspects were migrants staying at the former Lincoln Correctional Facility, which has been converted into…
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This was posted to Reddit from the Howard Beach–JFK Airport station in Queens. I believe it was recorded very recently.
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Surveillance video captures an 80-year-old man being executed on a Bronx street Sunday by a bike-peddling gunman clad like a ninja — as the victim’s wife watches in horror.
[The moment of the shooting was edited out.]
Marcelino Valerio and his spouse had just arrived home from…
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Train in Jackson Heights: White guy's bike knocked into the black guy, black guy told him to apologize, he didn't, fight started. So the story is told.
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The mother of Jordan Neely, who died at the age of 30 after being placed in a chokehold on an F train Monday afternoon, also died at the hands of another person.
Christie Neely was 36 when she was discovered dead, stuffed in a suitcase on the side of a highway in the Bronx in…
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A 16-year-old girl was arrested for a viral caught-on-camera attack aboard a Manhattan F train last week.
The teenager turned herself in this morning in the same area where the beatdown took place.
The girl is accused of pummeling 51-year-old Sue Young in front of her young…
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N train to Astoria, Sunday around 2 a.m.
Anyone who would like to try to explain this is welcome to.
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The NYPD raided a men’s shelter for migrants at 455 Jefferson Street in Bushwick early this morning to confiscate mopeds parked in front of it.
'As men tried to move their mopeds, officers began shoving migrants to the ground, and welding stun guns at the increasingly agitated…
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Is this what should be expected when the looting of stores without challenge is permitted?🤔
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El Monte in Los Angeles County
Via
@ABC7
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Employees at an El Monte jewelry store punched, kicked and used a stick to fight back and chase off a suspected…
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A May 10 incident in which the global head of event production at TikTok tried to break up a fight on a train in Brooklyn ended with his receiving an eight-inch long gash from the top of his head to the bottom of his left cheek, requiring about a hundred stitches.
The assailant…
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A 27-year-old Amazon deliveryman dropping off packages on July 13 around 5 p.m. to residences on E. 117th Street near First Avenue was approached my four men.
As one man in the group asked him what packages were in his bag, a second man struck him in the back of the head with a…
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Thanks to all the ultra-generous payouts on lawsuits arising from the George Floyd demonstrations, the police will be extra-careful not to give anyone cause to cry "ooch" or "ouch" now.
It would be satisfying to see the judges who ordered those payouts put in the middle of this…
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June 10, 3:10 PM: A 75-year-old woman leaving Macy’s Herald Square and about to cross the street at W. 34th St and Sixth Ave. was confronted by a shirtless attacker who shoved her to the ground and repeatedly kicked her before getting away.
The victim was taken to Mount Sinai…
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Twenty-one-year-old Vaughn Trotman allegedly jumped the turnstile at the Atlantic Avenue subway station at around 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 3 when he was stopped by officers.
The cops discovered that he was not only carrying a loaded .40 caliber firearm, but also had an active warrant.…
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The man who was pushed to his death on the tracks at the East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station on Monday evening was Jason Volz, age 54. He worked as a carpenter.
If the roles had been reversed, i.e. if a white man had pushed a black man to his death in a subway…
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According to court documents and statements, Cha'la Jamison, 23, entered a juice bar on East 61st Street and 3rd Avenue on April 12, ordered a drink, and got into a fight with the worker when her payment was declined.
The worker told her to take the drink, so he could tend to…
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A 23-year-old woman was on a Manhattan-bound No. 3 train pulling into the Nostrand Ave. station in Crown Heights about 3 p.m. Friday when a man headed toward the door.
When the car door opened, the man propped it open with his foot and lunged at the woman with a sharp blade,…
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Yesterday afternoon's slashing incident aboard an eastbound LIRR train in Queens. See the previous post for details.
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- "He can't breathe." 👌
- Note that no one anywhere ever does anything wrong, except for police who arrest people. 🙄
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Restrictions have been placed on moves cops are able to use in order to subdue a resisting perpetrator, hiring standards have been lowered, so here we are: A vision of a progressive paradise where nothing not-nice ever happens to the poor little suspects at the hands of the mean,…
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“There’s now 500 migrants living in that dormitory [the Stratford Arms Hotel on West 70th Street]. That’s when all the mayhem began,” said Germanotta.
Germanotta claims the chaos has depreciated local property values and said it’s torn at the fabric of a neighborhood that was…
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The shooting victim in yesterday's incident at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station was caught on camera coming into the system through an exit gate and avoiding the fare.
He has a criminal record with arrests for grand larceny, robbery and a domestic criminal mischief.
He was…
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Felony charges were brought against five of the estimated 5,000 people involved in Friday's Union Square chaos.
Kai Cenat was freed with a desk appearance ticket on a low-level, Class E felony charge of riot, as well as misdemeanor charges of inciting a riot and unlawful…
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Four shoplifters started taking items at a BP gas station 11:15 a.m. Thursday in Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx, when a 33-year-old worker confronted them.
One threw a bottle at him. He was also pushed, repeatedly punched and put in a chokehold.
When a 49-year-old coworker tried…
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Apparently this was the situation leading up to the stabbing of two young women in Park Slope at 2:20 a.m. One of the victims died from her wounds.
From the OP (ellemakaveli on IG):
"This man called Rico murdered a 19 year old girl for rejecting his advances on her stabbing her…
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The victim in last night's fatal stabbing on a J train approaching Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg was Devictor Ouedraogo, 36.
He had been hassling other passengers when he started arguing with Jordan Williams, 20, and his girlfriend.
During the clash, Ouedraogo, of…
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Arrested for stealing from a store in the NYPD Midtown South Precinct. Originally uploaded a couple of days ago.
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Venezuelans in the Darién Gap, on their way to the United States.
Your elected leaders will tell you that you only need to grant work permits to the ones already here, and that will solve the problem.
Of course it's possible that they are simply lying, but I lean towards the…
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Canal Street (Chinatown) on April 21 at 7:30 a.m. This was posted to IG by "aznchef4u".
If you are turning to the current DA and lawmakers for help, then you still haven't learned yet.
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A woman lost both her feet after her boyfriend pushed her onto the subway tracks — where she was struck by a train in Manhattan.
The victim, 29, was not immediately identified.
The southbound 3 train was pulling into the Fulton Street Station at Chambers Street Saturday at…
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At 711 Fulton Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Originally uploaded about a day ago. The owners are said to be intending to close at the end of the month, for this very reason.
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The NYPD is looking for a man responsible for slashing three women in the legs in the subway system yesterday afternoon.
A 19-year-old woman and a 48 year-old woman were both slashed in the legs in the 4/5/6 station at 86th Street and Lexington Ave just before 4:30 p.m.
As the…
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Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa, 15, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court this morning on two counts of attempted murder, assault, attempted assault, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
So he was charged as an adult.
He is also a suspect in a Jan. 25 incident…
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"They're seeking the American Dream. 🙂❤️🙂"
W. 70th and Broadway, evidently last night.
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A grand jury has declined to indict 20-year-old Jordan Williams, who had been charged with manslaughter for the June 13 stabbing death of Devictor Ouedraogo on a J train.
His self-defense claim was bolstered by video footage presented to the grand jury, which showed Ouedraogo…
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'Security camera footage shows the moment a suspected porch pirate walked into a Queens homeowner’s trap by trying to steal a fake parcel deliberately left on the stoop.'
'Carlos Mejia said he was “done” with thieves following FedEx and UPS trucks and raiding his parcels, and…
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A 23-year-old woman was waiting the platform at the 39th Avenue station in Long Island City at 10:05 a.m. on May 20, when she was approached by a woman who began to argue with her.
The other woman grew irate and proceeded to spit in the victim’s face before grabbing her by the…
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This one is a classic. You elevate the "rights" of criminals above the rights of everyone else, and this results.
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In 1987, Charles Rowe, now 56, was a guest of a 10-year-old girl’s family at their Jamaica home when he was left alone with the…
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'Ryan Carson, a social justice advocate who was on a mission to make New York a better place, was stabbed to death on the streets of Crown Heights on Monday.'
'People who knew Carson, 32, said he dedicated his life to trying to change things for the better.'
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Look at how smart and progressive we are!
A 57-year-old woman was walking down a sidewalk in Crown Heights and was "randomly" slugged in the face by a man.
She should have known to maintain a distance from him, although of course that doesn't excuse his actions.
Her mouth is…
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The 35-year-old woman who was "randomly" shoved into a departing E train at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Street station around 6 a.m. Sunday is now listed in critical condition.
The victim was being treated at Weill Cornell Medical Center for cuts on her head and spinal injuries.…
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Evidently there was no avenue of escape for the people standing in the background.
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Police have arrested a teenage girl accused of attacking two Asian women on the subway on Thursday, at the West Fourth Street station in Greenwich Village.
A 16-year-old female has been charged with two counts of assault.
A 51-year-old woman was aboard an F train when the…
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And now it's time for another inspiring episode of ... Nitwits on the Loose ...
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Here they are Manhattan, all the "asylum seekers" you could ever wish for, and even more! The video is from "saul_acv2" on Instagram.
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Are we ready to bring back vagrancy laws?
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A homeless, convicted sex offender has been terrorizing women in the East Village.
He lurked behind one woman last month and declared, “I’m going to f–king rape you.”
Lately, the homeless…
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A 32-year-old man armed with a knife attempted to rob a 65-year-old man on 82nd Avenue in Kew Gardens at around 2 a.m.
The 65-year-old ultimately shot the robber. Officials say he then called police and is cooperating.
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NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper:
Over 13,000 arrests were made in the subway system last year.
Of those 13,000+ arrests, 124 people were arrested five or more times last year alone. Those 124 had amassed (in combination) a total of more than 7,500 arrests during their…
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Of the 2,502 people arrested in NYC for fare beating so far this year, 1,136 — or just over 45% — had open arrest warrants at the time.
The warrants were for charges including weapon possession, felony assault, and drugs.
More than 200 fare beaters were carrying deadly weapons,…
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Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, 21, was issued a desk appearance ticket and walked free from the 19th Precinct on the Upper East Side last night after “encouraging” a mob of young fans to descend upon Union Square Park.
The influencer, who has more than 20 million followers, was…
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According to this, one of the migrants who was arrested for attacking NYPD officers on Saturday was arrested again. No explanation for what happened.
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From the sound of the wailing in the background, it seems his mother was staying in Yonkers and that's where he fled to.
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This is national news, now.
The second suspect was 30-year-old Mallik Miah, who was arrested in Greenwich Village on Thursday, charged with misdemeanor assault, and freed on supervised release. Now it's likely that the Manhattan DA's office will offer him some type of…
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Subway madman / repeat-offender of the day
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Diego Morales, 37 — who has 16 prior arrests — boarded a downtown No. 1 train at the 137th Street-City College station around 2 p.m. Saturday and stormed up to two women who were already inside, pulling one of…
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July 5, inside the shopping mall on Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst:
A 88-year-old woman was sitting in a communal area around 3 p.m. when a man told her to get up so that he could sit down in her seat.
Her 71-year-old son stepped in to defend his mom, so the son was repeatedly…
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I don't know where this was recorded.
Some place where the rules are set by degenerate losers.
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An NYPD officer shot and killed a knife-wielding shoplifter in the Bronx on Saturday afternoon.
The deadly episode unfolded shortly after 2:30 p.m. in a 7-Eleven at East Tremont and Barkley Avenues in Throgs Neck.
The 22-year-old entered the store around 2:10 p.m. and was…
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Accused scooter shooting rampager Thomas Abreu, 25, gave this smile to reporters who questioned him as he was walked out of the 107th Precinct in Queens today.
He allegedly told detectives that he was being pursued by the Russians and the Chinese.
But when the cops nudged him…
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Francisco Marte, founder of a bodega owner's association, shows a stab wound received by Jose Alba. He says Alba was stabbed twice in each arm by ex-con Austin Simon's girlfriend.
From
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NY Post Editorial Board: "What Alvin Bragg is practicing isn’t justice. It’s madness. Police are villains, criminals are heroes and victims are told to accept their fate."
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He died because he entered a subway car and threatened people unless they gave him money, and in reaction was placed in a chokehold which unintentionally (all evidence indicates) caused his death. These were his words:
"I don't have food, I don't have to drink, I'm fed up... i…
The consequences for mental health problems in New York should not be death.
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A 14-year-old male was arrested at his home Wednesday and charged with assault in connection with the May 6 assault on a 71-year-old man on West 55th Street near Broadway.
The boy approached the septuagenarian from behind just after 9 p.m., punched him in the face and pushed him…
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Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figuero, 15, will most likely be charged as a juvenile with attempted murder of a police officer. The case will then either go to criminal or family court.
He is also a suspect in a gunpoint robbery in the Bronx from Jan. 27, and another incident in which…
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'Jordan Neely's uncle fled police and then was arrested Monday after being caught with several allegedly stolen credit cards, a day after he urged no plea deal for the ex-Marine accused of placing his nephew in a fatal chokehold ...'
'Christopher Neely was arrested late Monday…
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One of the nine Target stores nationwide that will close due to theft is at East River Plaza at 116th and the FDR Drive, in East Harlem.
It was the first Target in Manhattan. It opened in 2009 to great fanfare about bringing new retail to an underserved community.
Now, it will…
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The NYPD is looking for four men wanted for attacking a 67-year-old man early Sunday in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
The victim was riding a Manhattan-bound train at 2:25 a.m. when he was surrounded by four males who demanded his money.
They punched him repeatedly in the head and…
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One that didn't get away.
Originally uploaded yesterday.
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We have a new Times Square scam: Migrant pickpockets. Often children are used as distractions.
There is no data breaking down arrests by immigration status, because we have decided that it isn't nice to ask people if they are in the country illegally.
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The…
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The second poster-child for criminal justice reform today.
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Michael Allen, 34, is accused of attacking a 66-year-old violinist on Aug. 5 on West 45th Street as she was leaving the theater where she works, leaving the victim with a mangled wrist.
Allen has…
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Absolutely fascinating ... yet still no admission that open borders and sanctuary city policies are wrong and self-destructive.
BREAKING: Mayor Adams basically conceding New York City is done because of illegal immigration and warns New Yorkers illegals will flood ALL neighborhoods.
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West Fourth Street station, yesterday.
It looks like the victim was an elderly Asian woman.
We "can't" do anything about this, because homeless vagrants have rights elevated above the rights of all others.
Officials were elected, judges were elected or appointed, and these are…
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My friend sent me a video from platform. It happened today. I feel bad for old lady.
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The
@nypost
reports that four persons were arrested and charged with assault on a police officer, and released without bail, and that the assailants were "asylum seekers".
So far as I'm aware, this is the only incident in recent memory in which a mob attacked NYPD officers, and…
🚨WANTED for ASSAULT: on 1/27 at approx. 8:30 PM, individuals kicked & punched police officers in the head & body when officers were effecting an arrest in front of 220 W 42nd Street. The individuals fled on foot towards 7th Ave. Any info? DM or call
@nypdtips
at 800-577-TIPS.
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Kamal Semrade, 39, was busted for allegedly bashing a woman’s face into a train at around 6:05 a.m. on May 21 at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Street station on the E line. The woman, 35, was left in critical condition.
Semrade is charged with assault and attempted murder.
He is…
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A Nordstrom store in the Los Angeles area.
Someone seems to feel that this is charming or amusing behavior.
This is from "latakeover_" on Instagram.
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Video shows some of the wild Brooklyn party boat brawl that left two people stabbed and another bashed in the head with a bottle.
Several men and women can be seen pushing and shoving each other on the pier right next to the massive yacht.
At one point, a man is forced to the…
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Breaking the jaw of a woman walking past you on a sidewalk has nothing to do with "mental illness". It is a criminal act, committed by a man who knows exactly what he is doing.
Also: In light of his past actions, as reported here, why is he still out on the street?
Again: Why…
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A 21-year-old man was standing on the mezzanine level leading to the G train at the Court Square–23rd Street station in Queens on the morning of July 11.
A man walked up and asked him for cash.
The man declined to give him money, but when he attempted to walk away, the…
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The man who died after harassing people on a subway train and being placed in a chokehold was a "subway recidivist" with 44 prior arrests for assault, disorderly conduct, and fare evasion.
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About the female "asylum seeker" who was arrested Thursday night for slapping a cop outside the Stratford Arms Hotel (now a migrant shelter) on the Upper West Side:
- Her name is Baibaia Rodriguez, age 20.
- She was arraigned Friday on misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest,…
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According to the OP, the man in handcuffs had been arrested for raping a little girl. This was originally posted three days ago.
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