Articles Tagged “Police Commissioner”
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UPDATE: Newsday Journalist and family under surveillance
The saga surrounding Newsday journalist Andre Bagoo has taken a new twist. Now Mr. Bagoo’s lawyers are calling on Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs to explain why a marked police vehicle was stationed outside his home on Sunday night. Attorney Rajesh Ramoutar in a letter to Mr. Gibbs called the presence of the police vehicle a [...]
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NY Council Members have not forgotten racist remarks by NYPD against West Indians.
New Yorkers of varying races and religions rallied Saturday to demand more accountability from city police, accusing the nation’s largest force of targeting innocent blacks, Latinos and Muslims while tracking crime. If city officials don’t acknowledge that the police department “has created a system of apartheid in this city of New York, we are going [...]
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VIDEOS: NYC Council members speak out against racist remarks by NYPD.
In case you missed the snippet during the nightly news, below you will find three unedited videos of the press conference held yesterday afternoon on the steps of City Hall, New York. Council Members Letitia James, Melissa Viverito and Jumaane Williams speak below: Public Advocate Bill De Blasio’s representative, Kirsten Foy and Council Member Ydanis [...]
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Man from DR charged with plotting to kill cops and soldiers with bombs!
A lone wolf with an anti-American grudge was charged Sunday with plotting to kill cops and soldiers with bombs he was building in his Manhattan apartment from an Al Qaeda recipe, officials said. Jose Pimentel was within an hour of finishing a powerful pipe bomb when the NYPD busted him as he worked at a [...]
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“Granny Quila” meets with T&T PM after Youtube fiasco. What’s next?
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has met with the 14-year-old girl known as “Granny Quila” who posted a hostile and threatening video on YouTube and Facebook. Accompanied by Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development, Senator Verna St. Rose Greaves, Persad-Bissessar said she appeased the visibly distressed teenager who was in the company of her mother [...]
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