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NYC reporter @AP | formerly Gothamist, WNYC | proud @APNewsGuild member | send mail to joffenhartz at ap dot org

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Jake Offenhartz
3 years
Listening to irate New York hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman on CNBC right now lamenting people "sitting at home getting their checks from the government, trading their stocks." “This fair share is a bullshit concept," he shouts. "It’s a way of attacking wealthy people."
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4 years
A source shared this video, which he says he took at around 10 pm near near 12th and Broadway. It appears to show an NYPD officer pointing a gun at protesters outside the Strand
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Zack Dahnan, the 21-year old security camera installer who first spotted the suspected subway shooter in the East Village, is holding an impromptu press conference on 1st Avenue. He says news of the presser left him unable to sleep.
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10 minutes! We had shirts before we had an emergency alert
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@KrangTNelson
america's lounge singer
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this is the fastest merch turnaround I've ever seen in my life
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3 years
Washington Square Park not waiting for the AP call
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My nepo baby admission is that my mom has cut a lot of famous people's hair and sometimes I discover photos of me hanging out with them
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6 years
he deleted it, but:
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4 years
They’re arresting legal observers. (Courtesy @CSMuncyPhoto )
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3 years
TFW the stock market reflects economic progress
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3 years
"At the end of the day, the stock market reflects economic progress or lack thereof," Cooperman says. "This too shall pass." The gulf between CNBC and Twitter is absolutely wild right now.
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Jake Offenhartz
5 years
Please enjoy this incredible email we received from a teen last night. Apparently, the majority of fare evaders in the Inside Edition segment were 10h graders going to gym class.
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3 months
On top of everything else, police have now confirmed the man roughed up by Guardian Angeles here is not, as Curtis Sliwa claimed, a “migrant.”
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Andrew Lawrence
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what the fuck did i just watch
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
During last week's mass arrest of peaceful protesters in the Bronx, the NYPD detained at least 11 legal observers — an act "targeted harassment" that was unprecedented and deliberate, according to longtime attorneys. Here's new video of one such arrest
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Jake Offenhartz
3 years
Pretty lucky no one died during this insane road rage battle in Flushing yesterday, apparently sparked by a parking space dispute
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Someone keeps throwing bricks through the window of a Hell's Kitchen gay bar. But when the owner called police, he says NYPD detectives discouraged him from reporting a hate crime. "They weren't seemingly interested in investigating it at the moment."
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Jake Offenhartz
2 years
Zack is whisked away in a police car, waving goodbye to his applauding admirers
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Jake Offenhartz
3 years
People lining up at the Javits Center as the mega-site goes 24/7 tonight to administer its first doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
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Jake Offenhartz
3 years
"Just because you throw the Hail Mary in your backyard doesn’t mean you’re Tom Brady," said Josh, who also runs a hedge fund. "I don’t like this pump and dump mentality that targets a certain institutional investor class."
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4 years
De Blasio just signed an executive order banning all Uber/Lyft pools. One customer per ride, unless you're a couple. And it has to be "real couples," mayor says.
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
A line of detainees getting loaded onto a corrections bus. China Williams says he’s a janitor at an HRA building nearby who was leaving work when he was “bum-rushed”
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Jake Offenhartz
2 months
Genuinely curious: if the argument is that transit riders don’t have 4th amendment rights on MTA property, does that also apply to drivers using MTA bridges and tunnels? Would the National Guard be able to search every car going over the Whitestone without reasonable suspicion?
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Morgan McKay
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What happens if New Yorkers do not want their bags checked by the national Guard? “Then go home,” @GovKathyHochul says on @fox5ny “You’re not taking the subway.”
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2 years
COVID-positive Sarah Palin has now dined al fresco on the Upper East Side two nights in a row. After eating at Campagnola Tuesday, she returned to Elio’s last night — where she reportedly flouted the city’s vax mandate this weekend
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
Several thousand New Yorkers dressed in white have taken over several blocks of Eastern Parkway in solidarity with Black trans lives
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Jake Offenhartz
3 years
The stakes were high, but he nailed it
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3 years
DoorDash has claimed this worker was not delivering for the app ("dashing") when he was killed. Family members dispute that, and screenshots of his account shared with Gothamist show he received a "breach of contract" notice for failing to make his final delivery.
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After Delivery Cyclist Is Killed In Armed Robbery, Gig Economy Workers Say "Enough Is Enough"
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
@NYPDChiefofDept was here for all of this. Here he is ordering the arrest of Shannon Jones as the group behind him gets kettled
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NYPD cops are making violent arrests & beating people with batons at the #FTP4 march in the Bronx. I just got hit with a baton & pusher by cops.
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As a childless 20-something Brooklynite whose last contact with the American education system was briefly dating a Teach for America candidate, I will now offer my thoughts on the schools reopening debate (1/48)
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
De Blasio just called this video "absolutely unacceptable" and said the officer should lose his gun and badge today. Can confirm an Internal Affairs officer called me this morning, which is first time that's ever happened
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
A source shared this video, which he says he took at around 10 pm near near 12th and Broadway. It appears to show an NYPD officer pointing a gun at protesters outside the Strand
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At the top of the hill they’re processing the arrestees. Medics and photographers among them. A woman is pulled out in a stretcher. I asked an officer what the point was and he shook his head and said “Eight o’clock”
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The person who runs this account is a sworn NYPD officer collecting a taxpayer-funded salary of $133,524
Truth is this bitch has blood on her hands but why should anyone be surprised the NYPD has suffered under DeBlasio since he became Mayor.
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
Really fascinating moment. Some of the organizers, who brought a PA system, orchestrated another kneel and handed mic to the cops. Many protesters aren’t having it
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
Cops charged from the back with batons out. Multiple people hit. Someone bleeding from the head. I jumped over a car and am out because of a press base. This wasn’t even a confrontation it was a trap
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Jake Offenhartz
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There are two ongoing rat lawsuits in NYC, filed almost a year apart. In the first, a "ceiling full of rats" collapsed on a man's head. In the second, a man plunged thru a sinkhole into a pit of rats. Let us now consider: Would you rather fall on rats, or have rats fall on you?
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Gothamist
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Man Who Fell Through Sidewalk Sinkhole Into Pit Of Rats Files Lawsuit
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
They’re dragging people out one by one. It looks like a mosh pit in there. To be clear this was a peaceful protest that cops surrounded and charged at 8 pm on the dot
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Jake Offenhartz
2 years
Two teenagers drowned on Rockaway Beach last night, along a stretch of beach that the city has elected not to staff lifeguards at this summer. One witness recalled talking to a victim’s friend, who was frantically searching for a lifeguard
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Jake Offenhartz
8 months
The NYPD will send drones into the sky to surveil Labor Day gatherings, such as "a large party in a backyard," officials announced today. Privacy and civil liberty advocates say the "sci fi scenario" flies in the face of existing law.
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2 years
On either side of the East River on Monday night, the NYPD held private fireworks viewing parties for friends and family — even as members of the public were turned away from the same parks for a lack of space.
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Jake Offenhartz
5 years
“You guys part of the new fare evasion crackdown?” “Yep.”
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4 years
For the last few years, Joshua Dietz has taught psych at CUNY schools and St. Francis. Under a pseudonym, he co-hosts a podcast with Richard Spencer, conducts chummy interviews with David Duke, and warns of the "negrofication" of America.
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A fur-clad, shield-wielding man who swarmed the capitol yesterday is the son of Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Shlomo Mostofsky. His brother is a district leader and vice president of the South Brooklyn Conservative Club.
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
Hooooly shit (h/t @thecitywanderer )
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4 years
I felt genuine terror tonight in a way I haven’t since this thing started. Don’t really have words for it right now. But I know it wasn’t the “tremendous restraint” promised by de Blasio, or whatever it is Cuomo imagines his happening here
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Jake Offenhartz
3 years
Nude man splashing around in the fountain shouting “I’M NEVADA.” Will spare you the video
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
This just got ugly. One of many brutal arrests, seemingly sparked by a tossed water bottle:
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Jake Offenhartz
2 years
In Massachusetts, they increased lifeguard wages to $21 hour with a $1,000 signing bonus and are now “in a much better spot,” according to their Parks Commissioner. New York City, which just passed a $101 billion budget, pays $16/hour, no bonus
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NYC Parks
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Due to the national lifeguard shortage, unfortunately we will not be hosting swim programs, including lap swim, senior swim, and Learn to Swim, at our outdoor pools this summer. Outdoor pools will remain open each day for general swim from 11am-3pm and from 4pm–7pm.
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4 years
I’m in the Bronx tonight for #FTP4 — the first #GeorgeFloydNYC protest organized by @decolonize_this . Dozens of cops on every corner, stationed on a roof, circling in armor on bikes.
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Jake Offenhartz
5 years
Worth repeating which farebeaters these cops are here to arrest (sometimes violently). It was 87 percent black or Latino people last year
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Jake Offenhartz
3 years
About two minutes after this 5 cops walked into the crowd, assessed the scene, and turned back
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Jake Offenhartz
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At Heschy’s urging, the crowd just surrounded and attacked journalist @jacobkornbluh . They pinned him against a wall and shouted “moyser” (“snitch”) as NYPD lost control of the situation. Really scary scene. Jacob is a pro
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The vehicle's license plate matches that of a car belonging to Hakim Gibson, a pro-NYPD activist who currently runs a “law enforcement support page." He recently outfitted the car with a push bumper and spotlight in an apparent effort to resemble a cop car
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Jake Offenhartz
6 years
In a now-deleted video, a Proud Boy could be heard shouting, "I had one of their heads and I was just smashing it into the pavement! I ripped that motherfucker's mask off and kicked him right in the head! That son of a bitch! He's a fucking foreigner!"
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
Good evening from Central Park South, where several thousands have taken the street, chanting “Fuck your curfew/suck my dick.” Follow @sydneyp1234 and @GwynneFitz for more updates from Day Six in NYC
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4 years
Some Upper West Siders suggested buying wasp spray to fend off homeless people in the neighborhood. Here's a comment from one woman, a trustee with the anti-overdose group Community In Crisis, who spent the last two months at a summer home in New Jersey.
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2 years
***news of the SHOOTING — sorry
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Jake Offenhartz
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"AOC is not so much a campaign surrogate for Sanders as she is living proof that the mechanisms of entrenched power can be replaced by and with regular Americans."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Electrifies Iowa, No Bernie Required: "She Is My President"
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Jake Offenhartz
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A full week later, Williams is STILL locked up at MDC for his allegedly breaking @NYCMayor 's curfew — and, as a result, violating his parole. Last night, he called me from jail and we spoke for 30 minutes...
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Jake Offenhartz
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A line of detainees getting loaded onto a corrections bus. China Williams says he’s a janitor at an HRA building nearby who was leaving work when he was “bum-rushed”
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4 years
Another angle of plainclothes officers pushing a protester into a minivan on 2nd Ave near 25th earlier tonight. "We were skateboarding and eating pizza," said one witness. "We didn't see where they came from. All of a sudden they grabbed Nicki. It was like a kidnapping."
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Tenants in Crown Heights say their landlord just attempted an illegal eviction. A group led by @EqualFlatbush is now occupying the steps, with landlord inside
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Protesters are up bright and early for Derrick Ingram, whose home was targeted by NYPD officers, dogs, and helicopters for hours yesterday. He tells the crowd his focus is on getting Dermot Shea to resign
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Asked these two officers guarding a Rite Aid on 1st Avenue if they could move their car out of the crosswalk. They said “no”
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In Foley Square, resounding chants of “NYPD take a knee.” Eventually, four cops kneel to huge chants. “We just want to get home safely, same as you,” says one protester.
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4 years
Threatening bystanders with arrest. “alright who wants to go to jail tonight?”
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My hot take is it's okay to be mad at the utility company asking you to turn down your AC during a heat wave while still keeping a bunch of billboards glowing in Times Square regardless of what the news tells you
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Scary scene here. Cops sprinting down en masse after protesters. Provocation as little as a water bottle. Observers getting maced at close range
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The president of the NYPD's second largest police union shared a wildly racist video this weekend likening black people to monsters. He told me this morning that he shouldn't face consequences because it was an "honest mistake" and he does not see color.
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Protesters said they were corralled into the park, and then threatened with arrest when they refused to leave the park. “They surrounded us and arrested us when we followed their instruction,” said Jess Davis. “They’re presence is solely here to intimidate.”
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4 years
Was in the process of tweeting about the Tupac dance party in front of 100 cops when they decided to charge. At least one reporter was tackled. Several others arrested for standing in streets. This was the definition of a peaceful protest. Now we’ll see
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This group is pinned, and a new group of cops just showed up with wooden batons. There was no violence, no bottles. People didn’t even see the cops in front of them til it was too late (interview with a witness at the end)
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New York State Assemblywoman Diana Richardson says she was pepper sprayed unprovoked. “I saw a police office raise his hands to fight me...this is a disaster equation.”
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When de Blasio's staffers shared videos or accounts of unprovoked police brutality, de Blasio would immediately call NYPD Commissioner Shea, who’d reassure him that the force was justified, the source said. “Everything had an explanation.”
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“Are you going to milk it a bit?“ “I’m going to make my money.” For hours, a group of NYPD officers unknowingly recorded themselves as they discussed OT schemes, bail reform, liberals and Long Island tee times. My last one for Gothamist:
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Nick, 83, knew the subways were shutting down tonight, but planned to find a “good station” off the Q. He didn’t realize those would be locked too. He says the streets are dangerous, and the shelters are “full of the virus.”
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Tomorrow night, a fleet of 500 drones will "take over" NYC's skyline, shining a massive ad for Candy Crush down on the city. It's part of a new marketing effort aimed at "turning the sky into the largest screen on the planet."
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every single one of you has made basically the same joke, but somehow this is the least funny of the bunch
@TheDailyShow
The Daily Show
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The driver asks “which of you does most of the dishes?” and if they agree they’re not a real couple
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Brian Lehrer describes police violence this week, and asks @NYCMayor : Do you acknowledge that those things happened and say the NYPD acted wrongly? "I don’t have information that tells me that." De Blasio has this info because his press secretary witnessed it. He's lying, again
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NYPD tried to break up a huge Sukkot party in Crown Heights tonight — and met fierce resistance from ultra-Orthodox revelers
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“Haha bitch you lost,” one protester tells a turtle cop
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Goodmorning New York! Here’s a spirited poll worker welcoming in the ~20 people who’d lined up at dawn to cast a ballot at the Campos Community Center in the East Village.
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Another legal observer says he was cornered by eight NYPD officers before curfew and accused of “illegal counter-surveillance against police.” They allegedly seized his notebook and mocked him for writing that some cops had obscured their badge numbers.
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Jake Offenhartz
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- cop pushes cyclist - cyclist sues city - cop swears under oath that he never pushed cyclist - evidence, suppressed for years by city lawyers, shows cop pushing cyclist - judge orders cyclist be paid $2.25 M in taxpayer money - cop keeps job
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3 years
Meanwhile at a BLM protest in Midtown tonight
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We stopped outside La Morada on Willis Ave, where owner Natalie Hernandez has been serving free meals during COVID-19 — and also, organizers says, faced harassment from ICE. Chants of “La policía, la migra, la misma porquería”
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Ina statement to Gothamist, a spokesperson for City Hall encouraged “any New Yorker who came into contact with Ms. Palin to get tested, just as we encourage all New Yorkers to get tested regularly, especially those who believe they may have been exposed…”
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I cannot understand the point of this. An NYPD Chief told protesters they were okay marching after curfew if they stayed peaceful. They were. This was the scene before the ambush
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Jake Offenhartz
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Fort Greene is a real delight tonight
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In 2019, while firing at an armed man robbing a cell phone store, police fatally shot a fellow detective. Last week, Jagger Freeman was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for the “murder.” He never set foot in the store and never carried a weapon.
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“I’m an essential worker, you nincompoops!”
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Imagine getting locked out of your apartment because Eric Adams' AI chatbot ("a once-in-a-generation opportunity to more effectively deliver for New Yorkers") convinced your landlord that tenant laws are optional
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New York City has just agreed to pay more than $13M to protesters who were arrested or beaten by NYPD officers during the George Floyd demonstrations in 2020 — among the largest settlements ever for a mass arrest class action.
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I’m here now. Tons of cops, small groups of protesters, but no evidence the precinct itself is being overrun
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Local trade unions are holding an adjacent rally, in solidarity with protesters and opposition to de Blasio’s budget. “Construction workers stand with black lives matters and against police terrorism,” says one hard hat
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Eavesdropped on white shirts debriefing the unplanned kneel, clearly nervous about it “Only 4 of us kneeled,” says Chief Robert Cattani. “Like anything on social media it’s either going to make or break us.” Deputy Inspector Hellman: “I already had a rap scandal, now this”
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Bronxites for NYPD Accountability Co-Founder Shannon Jones says @NYCMayor is culpable: “These are Democrats fucking up your lives. We already got bamboozled by the biracial kid. We fucked up on that one....but fool me once.”
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Just before 8 this group of heavily armored bike cops intercepted the group. Yelled “move” and knocked people back with bikes all at once. Now we’re kettled on this hill
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Asked an officer why there were 20+ cops with sirens blaring at Grand Army just now. He said they were monitoring to “make sure there was no disorder” at the cyclist protest.
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I watched four of them beat and arrest a reporter with his press card out. There’s just no rhym or reason or to this
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MTA bus drivers gotta be the most consistently supportive group of non-protesters that I’ve seen
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