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Robert De Niro is still in the midst of a lawsuit with his ex-employee, Graham Chase Robinson, who was once vice president at the actor’s company Canal Productions. In August 2019, De Niro initially sued Robinson for $6 million, accusing her of “breaching her fiduciary duties,” which Robinson followed with a countersuit in October 2019, alleging […]
The Black Buffalo police officer that was fired in 2008 for stopping a white officer from putting a suspect in a chokehold has won a ruling to receive her pension and back pay, CNN reports. Officer Cariol Horne was fired after she stopped her colleague from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect. Horne was a […]
A video of a robot dog exiting a building in New York has gone viral, with many comparing it to iRobot, The Terminator, RoboCop, and Black Mirror. Called the Digidog, the 70-pound machine was first utilized by the NYPD at the end of last year and has been deployed in different scenarios, including resolving a […]
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer wants to move forward with legislation to federally legalize marijuana. In a new interview with Politico, Schumer says he’s heading in the direction of legalization with or without President Biden. But Schumer will continue to have an “ongoing conversation with him” to tell him how his views have evolved. Schumer’s […]
A pair of former New York City mortuary workers have been charged with stealing from the deceased. Federal prosecutors announced the charges Tuesday, accusing 66-year-old Charles McFadgen and 50-year-old Willie Garcon of swiping multiple bank cards from dead bodies at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. The former suspect, who worked at the office between 2003 […]
UPDATED 3/30, 12:05 p.m. ET: The person who recorded the video of the incident has said that the man that was repeatedly punched “appeared to be Hispanic” not Asian, ABC 7 NY’s CeFaan Kim reports. The person also said that the altercation began after the Black man was called the N-word. See original story below. The New York City Police Department’s […]
Video showing a 65-year-old Asian woman being attacked has surfaced, WABC-TV reports. The victim, who was allegedly subjected to anti-Asian statements by the attacker, is seen being kicked several times in the footage. “Fuck you, you don’t belong here,” the man allegedly yelled at the woman, the New York Post reports sources as saying. The woman suffered a fractured […]
Halle Berry has addressed the racist comments that a Buffalo, New York radio host made about her complexion, comparing it to numbered settings on a toaster. He was fired after making the remarks on-air. “Disgusting. It’s ridiculous this type of nonsense is still being broadcasted across airwaves,” she wrote on Twitter. “ALL Black women are […]
A landlord in New York City is being accused of cleaning out his tenant’s apartment while he was battling coronavirus in the hospital, Gothamist reports. Ryo Nagaoka, 65, returned to his home Wednesday night to discover that everything but his piano and pet tortoise had disappeared. “They thought he died,” neighbor Sierra Zamarripa said. “He came back last night […]
A radio host in the Buffalo, New York area has been fired amid the ongoing fallout from his widely criticized show segment in which he compared toasted bread to a number of Black women. In a clip from the moment in question, per TMZ, 97 Rock’s Morning Bull Show co-host Rob Lederman is heard discussing […]
