Matthew Chayes
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Used to cover crime. Now I cover politics. Trying to learn the difference. @newsday .
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“Come on — try and ask a real question,” he snapped.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters have glued their hands to 6th Avenue, disrupting the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade; floats, bands and balloons are being diverted.
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Heckling the NYC mayor with “GO BACK TO NEW JERSEY” — in Bogotá, Colombia — is a deep cut of intercontinental proportions.
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Earlier, a separate heckler disrupted the presser: “Traitor! Treason! You’re going down, buddy! Traitor! To this nation! Everyone knows!”
Schumer paused, then continued the topic at hand: “We are concerned about these people getting back on airplanes, doing more violence.”
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Dean of
@Columbia
’s journalism school,
@jelani9
, says that the press was kept away from Hamilton Hall after the police raid so that the NYPD could finish shooting its sizzle reel.
the NYPD just posted a highly edited propaganda video, complete with an over-the-top dramatic cinematic score, about their raid on Columbia last night
it has to be seen to be believed
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Subway conductors pick from a touch-screen menu to play “NYPD On Platform,” “Anti-Surfing,” “Anti-Surfing (Spanish)” and other recorded messages.
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.
@NYGovCuomo
leaves anti-
@realDonaldTrump
rally to
@Camila_Cabello
/
@youngthug
’s “Havana” (“Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh-na-na”).
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Fellow subway performer Tyron Milson, 36, of Washington Heights, wept after attending the wake Friday in Harlem at Mt. Neboh Baptist Church of his colleague Jordan Neely. After the funeral, he breakdanced next to the church.
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There’s a line stretching two Manhattan blocks — from 28th to 26th streets on 9th Avenue in Chelsea — for this church food pantry.
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Hamodia reporter asks why protest is allowed when prayer services aren’t.
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
: “400 years of American racism, I’m sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services”
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Spectators jeered the disruptive protesters and cheered the cops who unglued and arrested them. This kid shouted, “loser!” at one of them.
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A demonstration of the body scanners that are coming — in as soon as 90 days — to the New York City subways.
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“If your iPhone can’t catch that picture with you being at a safe distance, then you need to upgrade your iPhone. Stop being on top of my police officers while they’re carrying out their jobs. That is not acceptable & it won’t be tolerated”:
@NYCMayor
re public recording cops
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“‘For me personally, this was spectacularly disappointing,’ said Farmington Police Chief Steve Hebbe.”
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It's so accepted that jails and prisons nowadays are no-go zones for the press and public that this article doesn't even raise the possibility of being allowed in to see conditions.
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Eric Adams’ new NYPD commissioner is being appointed in front of a mural featuring Malcolm X, Nat Turner, Angela Davis, Huey Newton and Assata Shakur.
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“Funeral for a Friend,” “Ave Maria,” among the warmup songs playing (really) at Trump’s send off as crowds await his sendoff at Joint Base Andrews.
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Pete Davidson (
@nbcsnl
star & son of hero firefighter killed in 9/11) condemned for
@ArianaGrande
joke.
@PageSix
: "Speaking about the moment he realized just how famous Grande was, he joked... '
@britneyspears
didn’t have a terrorist attack at her concert'"
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Why is a New York City councilman driving with Georgia plates and illegally tinted windows?
Here is the Vehicle Report generated by officers following the interaction:
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Did Hope Hicks also decline to pose for this photo, or is it old?
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"New York hates you!": chant outside
@realDonaldTrump
's tower, where he's due in town tonight.
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Performer at
@NYCLU
Women’s March rally recalls what she told a white male date during a conversation about racism: “well, honey, let me tell you something, your people created the construct of your skin color in the first place!”
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Imam blames
@realDonaldTrump
& Rudy Giuliani for slaying of fellow imam and the imam's friend this afternoon.
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Hamodia reporter’s back w/ a question for
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
re pandemic:
Q. Why are big protests allowed but families can’t be on playgrounds?
A. “Out of an abundance of caution, the playgrounds just created too much of a risk to families of the spread of the disease.”
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“Every time you turn on the TV, you hear the Cuomo brothers laughing it up on CNN without addressing the real problems, and I feel like I’ve been living in a whole different reality!”
— NY State Assemlyman
@rontkim
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BREAKING: An exception for unvaccinated performers and sports players, such as
@KyrieIrving
, to New York City’s worker vaccination mandate will be announced Thursday by Mayor Eric Adams, the same day the new policy is to take effect, according to a source familiar with the plan.
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The NYPD’s handling of the Floyd protests in May/June “produced excessive enforcement” & “exacerbated confrontations between police and protesters, rather than de-escalating tensions,” a probe from
@NYC_DOI
, the city gov’t watchdog, concluded in a report issued Friday.
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Screaming protester who was unglued by the police and detained.
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“As precious minutes passed, the officers laughed and joked about waking Timpa up for school and making him waffles for breakfast.”
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Proving the cops lied when arresting
@josie_huang
required multiple camera angles, including one that began rolling before any indication she was subject to arrest, a feed on which one cop is recorded attempting to crush the recording phone with his foot.
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Since 1977, there’s been only one conventionally married NYC mayor — David Dinkins (in office 1990-1993), who doted on his wife of almost 60 years ()…
(1/4)
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Floyd marchers have commandeered the Brooklyn Bridge’s traffic lanes.
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Are you a police-beat reporter whose “scoops”...
• only advance police department power, priorities & prestige? and
• only smear arrestees & political opponents of the police dep’t?
Then you’re not well-sourced with the police. The police are well-sourced with you.
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Bill de Blasio threatened $1,000 fines for employers caught disobeying the city’s vaccination mandate, covering an estimated 184,000 businesses.
Under Eric Adams, no fines have been issued — and there’s never been an inspection.
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Inbox from
@QueensDABrown
: “BROOKLYN WOMAN INDICTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER IN ALLEGED POISONING WITH CHEESECAKE OF QUEENS LOOK-ALIKE”
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Some cops turn backs on
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
at NYPD's Familia funeral, reminiscent of what happened at funerals for Ramos, Liu
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Here's how it's done, via
@MarthaRaddatz
.
.
@MarthaRaddatz
to WH spokesperson on Trump's unsubstantiated wiretap claim: "You keep saying if, if, if" Watch:
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Those who commit hateful but noncriminal conduct should be confronted by the NYPD,
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
says:
“I assure you, if an NYPD officer calls you or shows up at your door to ask about something you did, that makes people think twice, and we need that.”
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“Go back to Long Island, you racist…,” pro-Jordan Neely demonstrators shout at Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who’s in Manhattan to support Daniel Penny.
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Brief words from Conor McGregor (
@TheNotoriousMMA
) after criminal court proceedings lasting less than 60 seconds upstairs.
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NYPD arrests protesters at march commemorating 47-year-old protest against the NYPD.
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COLUMNIST WHO HARANGUED POLITICIANS UNTIL HE GOT ANSWERS IS TO BE HONORED AT CEREMONY WHERE REPORTERS' QUESTIONS ARE DISALLOWED.
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Governor
@KathyHochul
uses “we” to refer to the
@MTA
, which she controls. Her predecessor,
@NYGovCuomo
, made sport out of claiming he didn’t control the agency (which he always controlled: )
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Parked in the Bond Street bike lane while staffing
@NYCMayor
@ericadamsfornyc
’s Earth Day bike ride caravan: a
@CitiBikeNYC
van, two unmarked NYPD vehicles (including one collecting his police bodyguards’ bikes) and assorted others.
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@MaxRivlinNadler
@HellGateNY
Am I reading this correctly that the first person to put his hands on another was a cop who didn’t like being called Ugly Betty?
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is carrying a tote with her own silhouette.
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“He was in the wrong profession for the coronavirus. Willie loved talking to people. Social distancing was not in his nature.”
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Wall built for NYPD to catch pro-
@realDonaldTrump
graffiti vandal: transit chief Edward Delatorre.
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Apparently, state and federal law mandating face-masking applies to everyone on this Far Rockaway-bound A
@NYCTSubway
train except the NYPD cops patrolling it.
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The police department is transparent, concise, specific and fast when a police officer appears to be in the right — and a civilian wrong. Even the police report and body-camera footage is disclosed — the same day!
The New York City Police Department is releasing the following statement after an officer conducted a legal and professional stop of New York City Councilmember Yusef Salaam’s vehicle in the 26th precinct yesterday:
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An interview with the city’s jails watchdog who was fired by Mayor Adams at the behest of the guard labor union.
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The protesters appear to be from a group called “Liberation for Palestine and Planet.” (This is a sign held up near the two protesters who were glued to Sixth Avenue.)
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So little new housing is permitted on Long Island — less than all but one other comparable place in the United States — that it’s news when 9 apartments are planned.
Not 9 apartment buildings.
9 units.
On an island with 2.8 million people.
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“Hit the road, Jack” is blasting from an SUV passing City Hall in advance of
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
’s farewell ceremony.
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BREAKING: Reporter rushes to tweet after catching way-more-important somebody making minor error.
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@anniecorreal
In other words, what the jail's warden and the federal Bureau of Prisons told you earlier this week is untrue ().
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The NYPD is considering abandoning its strategy of ticketing cyclists as a response to a cyclist fatality, NYPD chief of department says.
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Manhattan criminal court has two sallyports — one on Centre Street, another on Baxter — where defendants can be driven in. Instead, the Manhattan DA’s office decided to perp walk Manafort in the street before waiting press cameras.
Just the chairman of the the president's 2016 campaign making a perp walk, nothing to see here, carry on.
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On March 1, there was one confirmed case.
923 confirmed cases of coronavirus in NYC and 10 deaths:
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
on
@MSNBC
.
As of noon, there were 814 confirmed cases.
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Protesters chanting “fire Pantaleo!” disrupt, and are hustled out of,
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
’s news conference following an NYPD administrative-law judge’s recommendation that Pantaleo should be fired.
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New Yorkers who see NYPD transit cops fiddling with their phones instead of patrolling the subways should send a picture of the transgression to the mayor himself,
@NYCMayor
@ericadamsfornyc
says. His spokesman
@jonahallon
says to email the pics to pressoffice
@cityhall
.nyc.gov
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“NO PARKING Anytime” (unless your dashboard has a laminated placard saying you’re a RESIDENT of 15 Central Park West, with a wallet-size card from the NYPD detectives’ labor union)
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At midnight (Washington Square Park’s closing time) NYPD cops in body armor and riot gear, wielding bikes as battering rams, cleared a party in the park, pushing crowds farther south into the Village and threaten to start making arrests.
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Parked in Times Square — no license plates but the tip of an obscured placard supposedly from the “CITY OF NEW ROCHELLE POLICE ASSOCIATION” (whatever that is)
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There's a factual dispute: Is there heat at Brooklyn's federal jail? Are the lights working? The warden says yes and yes. A lot of lawyers, workers, inmates and others say no and no. Let's resolve this dispute with a quick walkthrough. The jail is on lock down. Why not?
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NYPD cop who tackled an innocent James Blake to sue the tennis pro for emotional distress and slander:
@nypost
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“That was not vigilante action. That was a Good Samaritan.” — Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman at a pro-Penny rally in Manhattan.
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PI
@BoDietl
, running for
@NYCMayor
, says that
@BilldeBlasio
should spend the $12 million he's using for legal bills to fund veteran programs
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A passenger can refuse to go through the scanner — but then must exit (and could go in via another entrance).
If the passenger agrees to go through the scanner and the computer flags an area as potentially having a weapon, the passenger cannot refuse a second, police search.
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“Their lives mattered!”
“We want answers!”
— demonstrators outside
@NYGovCuomo
’s Manhattan office who blame him for ordering nursing homes to accept coronavirus-positive patients (where other patients could be in turn infected)
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Blocking the bike lane next to a criminal court and the prosecutor’s headquarters (forcing cyclists into oncoming traffic onto Jay Street): a parked SUV with vanity license plates “ICLOWN4U” in a thin-blue-line frame, a state court officer (labor union?) placard on the dashboard.
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“You about to lose your job!” man on bullhorn shouts at cops in riot helmets at Pride march.
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Hondas... Dodges... Chevys... Nissans... Fords... Chryslers...
Procession of nearly 100 unmarked NYPD vehicles, most with tinted windows, with multiple cops inside most, tail demonstrators near Manhattan’s Union Square.
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“A bum” is how a judge described a man whose arrest was based on a cop’s perjury.
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“Anything named after him has to go in this city,”
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
on Robert E. Lee.
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50,000+ people work for the NYPD. Who is “the police”? What police representative said this? Why do news outlets — the NYT and most others — not only cite this vague abstraction as the sole source of information but avoid flagging “the police” for what it is: an anonymous source.
“The police initially reported that both officers had been killed, but later said one was in critical condition at Harlem Hospital.”
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“Jake, I believe that you believe what you’re saying,”
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
tells
@Gothamist
’s
@jangelooff
, who said he saw peaceful protesters being brutalized.
The mayor and
@NYPDShea
, citing intel and posters advertising mayhem, say there was imminent violence afoot.
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“Five, six, seven, eight! America was never great!”: chant at uptown Women’s March (passing a Trump hotel on Central Park West)
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@briankoppelman
Here’s the mayor as recently March 15: “If you love your neighborhood bar... go there now ... because we don’t know what the future holds.”
Soon thereafter, he restricted bars and eateries to takeout and delivery.
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Wearing a baseball cap,
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
a few moments ago climbed out of his NYPD-driven minivan and paced in the street on the phone, unrecognized except by a reporter. At one point, he returned to the vehicle to retrieve, and don, a face mask.
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Tammany Hall, NYC's temple of political corruption and graft, is becoming a "FLAGSHIP RETAIL OPPORTUNITY" with "LIGHT-FILLED OFFICE SPACE."
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What’s the overlap between those in 2019 who said the lady selling churros in the subway to make a living must be arrested to forestall a descent into disorder and those in 2020 who say arresting a bar owner flouting pandemic restrictions is an anti-American assault on liberty?
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Tammany Hall, New York’s corrupt political machine (), is now a Petco?
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Neighbor watches from his window as Queens Bengalis rally for slain imam.
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VIDEO: Mayor de Blasio finishes speaking and cops at
#MiosotisFamilia
's funeral who had turned their backs on him turn back around.
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Police union boss criticizes crackdown on cops illegally overly-tinted windshields, driving w/ invalid inspection stickers, registrations, obstructive license plate covers, or missing or defaced plates on their personal vehicles — driven to NYPD facilities
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