NYPD
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Malcolm’s Growing Socialist, Anti-imperialist, Anti-Zionist and Pan-African Outlook Made Him Target of the “Deep State”
Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has now cleared Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam who were wrongfully convicted of Malcolm’s 1965 murder. Vance and other government authorities, however, refused to investigate the FBI, NYPD, CIA, and other government agencies for their role in his killing. Continue reading
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Media: To Defeat Transparency, NYPD Turns to Journalist-Turned-Cop-Turned-Journalist-Turned-Cop
Last week, the New York City Council held hearings on proposed legislation calling on the New York Police Department to be more transparent with how they surveil and spy on the public. Police officials, as they often do, proceeded to tell local lawmakers to get lost. Requests for more information and possibly a public comment… Continue reading
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NYPD Raids in Harlem: “They want to stop this whole generation”
5:30 am: more than 400 heavily armed men break down doors, put guns to the heads of grandmothers and toddlers, pull a teenage girl out of bed and handcuff her face-down on the floor at gun point, in her underwear. Women try to hide their sons. Dozens of young males, age 15 to 30, are… Continue reading
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Twitter campaign backfires on New York Police Department By Sandy English
On Tuesday, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) attempted a public relations campaign on the popular microblogging platform, Twitter. @NYPDNews, the Twitter account of the department, asked its followers, “Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD.” The PR effort proved a catastrophic failure. Within… Continue reading
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CCR Says: This is Your Victory: End Stop and Frisk Today
Yesterday we shared with you the breaking news that the federal judge in our case found the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy unconstitutional after an almost two-month trial. The judge said that for years the City had “turned a blind eye” to this racially discriminatory practice, and ordered a range of important reforms, including appointing a federal… Continue reading
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No Free Happy Meals for NYPD ‘Stop and Frisk’ Victims
According to its own data, the New York Police Department made over 684,000 street stops in 2011, a 603% increase over 2002, when Mayor Bloomberg first took office, and a 14% increase over 2010. Nearly 90% of “Stop and Frisk” victims are African American and Latino, though they make up only 50% of the city’s… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 1 March 2012: NYPD Looks for Terrorists at Black Girls' School in Newark
The NYPD recognizes no jurisdictional boundaries in its religion- and race-based dragnets. Funded partly with federal money intended to curb drugs, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s secret police imposed hyper-surveillance on Muslims in nearby Newark, New Jersey and other out-of-state localities. “It is as if the police saturated every Italian-American neighborhood, restaurant, business, social club, church, school,… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 February 2012: GOP Goes Off the Cliff / Obama's Tax Scam / Black Children as Terrorists
29 February 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Like Bill Clinton, Obama Drives Crazy Republicans Even Crazier Thu, 03/01/2012 – 16:01 – Bruce A. Dixon by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When a right wing Democrat occupies the White House it does stranger things to Republicans than the Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 February 2012: US Has Secret Charges Against Assange: Hacked Emails
28 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Blown Away: How the US Fanned the Flames in Afghanistan By Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting — and the killing? Are the exits finally coming into view? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30669.htm Continue reading
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NYTIMES Highlights CCR Witness Who was Stopped / Targeted by the NYPD
21 December 2011 — CCR On Sunday, The New York Times featured a powerful op-ed, Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me?, authored by Nicholas K. Peart. Nicholas submitted a declaration in support of our recently filed motion for class certification in Floyd v. the City of New York. In the piece, he shares his experiences Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 23 November 2011
23 November 2011 — williambowles.info NYPD ‘Loses’ the Occupy Wall Street Wikileaks Truck Gawker Life can be difficult when your vehicle has a huge Wikileaks logo and “Top Secret Mobile Collection Unit” emblazoned on the side. An artist’s Wikileaks-themed U-Haul truck is missing after being confiscated by the NYPD. The Wikileaks truck has been a Continue reading
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NYPD blast LRAD sound cannons at OWS — RT
17 November 2011 — NYPD blast LRAD sound cannons at OWS — RT http://rt.com/s/swf/player5.4.swf?file=http://rt.com/files/news/ows-police-sound-canons-603/ia0488725f3f2c24bbbbf11852aefeffb_live2000.dv.flv&image=http://rt.com/files/news/ows-police-sound-canons-603/twitpic-image-jopauca.n.jpg&skin=http://rt.com/s/css/player_skin.zip&provider=http&abouttext=Russia%20Today&aboutlink=http://rt.com&autostart=false RT’s New York crew has witnessed NYPD using LRADs, or sound cannons on Occupy Wall Street protesters. Eyewitnesses at the site have tweeted police fired as protesters sang the US national anthem . NYPD has previously threatened to use LRADs during Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 19-20 October 2011
20 October 2011 — williambowles.info 20 October 2011 I could get used to winning Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 21:44 Occupy Wall Street is proving that solidarity is a powerful thing–even Mayor Michael Bloomberg is being forced to face it. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 18-19 October 2011
19 October 2011 — williambowles.info 19 October 2011 Occupy Wall Street protesters raise nearly $500,000 Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 07:55 Continue reading
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Video: "I am not moving": Confronting America's Hypocrisy By grtv
Brilliant short film shows the hypocrisy of Obama and Clinton’s words about the Arab uprisings in contrast to how the American government responds to peaceful protesters at home. Compares the words on freedom and democracy relating to Syria, Egypt, Libya, Iran, and contrasts with treatment by NYPD and Boston police. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 5-6 October 2011
6 October 2011 — williambowles.info Wall St Occupation: ‘All wronged by corporate forces are our allies’ Green Left Weekly issue #782 Today at 12:28 peter_b The declaration published below was unanimously passed by all members of Occupy Wall Street on September 29. It is the first official document for release. Receive an official press copy Continue reading
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BA_Report, 5 October 2011: Democracy Now!'s Libya Debacle / Occupy Wall Street & DC's Freedom Plaza
5 October 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left Are Democracy Now!’s Libyan Correspondents Feeding Us the State Department and Pentagon Line on Libya? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Is the independent media movement’s flagship radio-TV show Democracy Now! Pushing the State Department and Pentagon line Continue reading
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NYPD Cops entrap protestors to arrest them
2 October 2011 — October2011.org The ‘paper of record’ rewrites the record and shifts the blame Continue reading
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