If you’re not too keen on the New York Police Department, don’t worry — the feeling is mutual. Officers within the NYPD allegedly typed racist and revealing comments on a public Facebook page seemingly undetected until a New York attorney uncovered them. Benjamin Moore was one of two attorneys from Brooklyn Defender Services representing a [...]
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December 9, 2011
December 6, 2011
OWS park’s owners cheat on taxes
Businesses that operate in the Big Apple are expected to pay a percent of their income on taxes that go to funding public projects in New York City. For the one percent, however, those pennies on the dollar are apparently too hard to part with. The result of an investigation by the New York Daily [...]
November 16, 2011
Occupy Wall Street banned from camping at Zuccotti Park
Anger and disappointment is erupting from New York City this afternoon, after a judge ruled that Occupy Wall Street protesters must discontinue camping at Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. After hours of deliberating, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled this afternoon that protesters would be prohibited from continuing their occupation of Zuccotti Park in Manhattan. Occupy [...]
November 15, 2011
Muslim community vs NYPD
In the wake of an investigation that reveals that the New York Police Department hunted Muslims based only on their religion, community leaders in the Big Apple are telling Muslims to cut their ties with the NYPD. An ongoing report from the Associated Press has revealed that in the decade since the September 11 terrorist [...]
November 8, 2011
‘Police brutality is a big problem in the US’
The OWS protests continue across the US and as the police continue to crackdown on protesters after violent clashes and arrests over the weekend, some activists believe that police have gone too far in their reliance on excessive force. Activist Timothy Frawls told RT that the problem has a lot to do with the militarization [...]
October 27, 2011
October 24, 2011
October 22, 2011
Wall Street protests: NY police arrest religious leaders
Dozens of people have been arrested in New York, as the Occupy Wall Street movement grows throughout the US.Anti-corporate protests are ending their fifth week now, with police adopting an increasingly harsh approach to the demonstrators. More than 30 protesters, including Princeton professor and veteran civil rights activist Cornel West, have been arrested during a [...]
October 21, 2011
NYCLU wants cameras off of Occupy Wall Street
There are over 2,000 surveillance cameras, public and private, catching every action throughout Manhattan. The New York Civil Liberties Union is asking the NYPD to rethink two of them — a pair of cameras targeting Occupy Wall Street protesters. In a letter issued Thursday out of the offices of the NYCLU, New York Police Department [...]
October 19, 2011
Pepper-spray policeman gets reprimanded by NYPD
The New York Police Department has come down on the NYPD officer caught on camera for infamously pepper-spraying peaceful female protesters during the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement. For the act, Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna is being docked ten days vacation time. The department veteran of nearly three decades will lose ten [...]
October 16, 2011
‘Police overdoing it on OWS protestors’
There has been a consistent overreaction of police against the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protestors, claimed Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College in New York. “Police seem to be unable to distinguish a peaceful, though disorderly, march and a gathering truly engaged in destructive activities,” he said. Vitale noted that specific demands have started [...]
October 15, 2011
OWS TV breaking mainstream silence
Anti-corporate protests in America have spread, and so have the arrests and charges of police heavy-handedness. With US mainstream media ignoring the rallies, some protesters are taking the task of informing the public into their own hands. According to AP news agency, on Friday New York police arrested 14 people for obstructing traffic by standing [...]
October 14, 2011
NYPD planted drugs on the innocent
Stephan Anderson, a former New York police detective, has testified saying planting drugs on innocent citizens was a common occurrence for NYPD officers to meet their quota for arrests. Anderson’s testimony led to the apprehension of eight NYPD officers in one of the biggest corruption scandals in the Brooklyn South and Queens Narcotics units. The [...]
October 12, 2011
Occupy Boston leads to massive arrests
Weeks after the Occupy movement started up, protests are still going strong and spreading. Unfortunately, so are the responses from law enforcement. Last night, over 100 demonstrators were arrested for participating in Occupy Boston. Hip-hop artist Immortal Technique told RT that the video of New York City protesters being pepper-sprayed by the NYPD at the [...]