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What Law Did We Break?
WHAT LAW DID WE BREAK? How the NYPD Weaponized a Curfew Against Protesters and Residents HUSAN BLUE, his family, and his neighbors were having a cookout on the patio outside their apartment in Crown Heights. It was a warm summer night in Brooklyn. Little kids were running around and playing. People were talking and celebrating. Blue’s […]
NYPD To Deploy Drones For The First Time To Secure New Year’s Party
NYPD To Deploy Drones For The First Time To Secure New Year’s Party In a world where pesky drones are becoming an increasingly greater nuisance – see the embarrassment that was last week’s Gatwick airport shutdown– the NYPD is taking the other side and is ramping up security for the city’s annual New Year’s Eve […]
‘I Feel Like a Despised Insect’: Coming of Age Under Surveillance In New York
“I FEEL LIKE A DESPISED INSECT”: COMING OF AGE UNDER SURVEILLANCE IN NEW YORK IN THE SPRING of last year, two New York women were arrested on charges of supporting ISIS, following a joint investigation by the New York Police Department along with federal agencies. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Queens residents Noelle Velentzas and […]
Acoustic Cannon Sales to Police Surge After Black Lives Matter Protests
Acoustic Cannon Sales to Police Surge After Black Lives Matter Protests During a company conference call with financial analysts last week, Tom Brown, the chief executive of LRAD, a military contractor, informed investors that sales were rolling in, not just from Chinese government agencies and the U.S. Navy, but also from American law enforcement. LRAD […]
Hard to Believe: Police are Treating Protest Movements Like They are Terrorists
Hard to Believe: Police are Treating Protest Movements Like They are Terrorists But that’s not stopping activists from pushing back. The New York Police Department has reportedly been giving young adults free tickets to screenings of “Selma,” and last month, on Martin Luther King Day, officers with the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood even drove a group of […]
NYPD Launches Plan to Deal with Protests – Arm Police with Long Rifles, Machines Guns and Extra Protective Gear
NYPD Launches Plan to Deal with Protests – Arm Police with Long Rifles, Machines Guns and Extra Protective Gear Murders reached a historic low in NYC for 2014; overall crime was down across the board by nearly 5%; hell, even the holiday slowdown didn’t really lead to any additional crime. So clearly, now is the time when NYC really needs to […]
NYPD Put On High Alert After ISIS “Unleash Killings” Video, Feinstein Warns Of Terrorist Sleeper Cells
NYPD Put On High Alert After ISIS “Unleash Killings” Video, Feinstein Warns Of Terrorist Sleeper Cells NYPD cops were put on high alert Saturday night after ISIS released a propaganda video urging the killing of “intelligence officers, police officers, soldiers, and civilians” in the US, according to The NY Post. This was then further fear-mongered by […]
Now Eric Garner | KUNSTLER
Now Eric Garner | KUNSTLER. The Beauty Shop had barely stopped smoldering in Ferguson, Missouri, when the Eric Garner grand jury decision came down on Staten Island — no probable cause to indict one particular cop for something — manslaughter? — in his choke-hold take-down of the 300-pound cigarette-seller. For my money, they should have […]
