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Authorities say an investigation is underway after video showed a vehicle driving through a group of demonstrators in Midtown Manhattan. According to the Gothamist, the incident occurred Thursday night near the Times Square pedestrian plaza, where a black Ford Taurus rammed through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters. Footage captured the vehicle honking and pulling up to a line up people who […]
Months before George Floyd died in police custody, a 41-year-old Black man suffered a similar fate. On Wednesday, the Rochester Police Department in New York released bodycam footage of a March 23 incident involving Chicago resident Daniel Prude. According to Oregon Live, the man was in Rochester visiting family when his brother reported to police that his brother was […]
After postponing their game against the Yankees on Friday because of health and safety concerns, the New York Mets team and staff have just tested negative for COVID-19 after getting their test results back from last week following their trip from Miami. “The New York Mets today announced that COVID-19 tests taken on Thursday night and […]
David Blaine will attempt to float across the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York City while holding onto a bunch of helium-filled balloons later this month in his first large-scale live stunt in nearly a decade, Variety reports. Blaine has partnered with YouTube for this upcoming event, titled David Blaine Ascension, and shared a teaser trailer on Wednesday, […]
Two on-duty NYPD officers were caught in the Bronx smoking hookah while standing next to their patrol car over the weekend, the New York Post reports. Their vehicle was stationed outside of an apartment building across from the Bronx Zoo Sunday as part of an initiative to address the growing number of shootings across the city over the last few weeks. […]
California has surpassed New York state for the most coronavirus cases. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the unfortunate milestone via Twitter on Wednesday, confirming the Golden State has posted a single-day record of new infections over the last 24 hours. According to his tweet, the state had recorded an additional 12,807 confirmed cases on Tuesday, bringing its […]
The head of the New York State Troopers is demanding that all of its members be pulled from New York City in direct response to the legislation criminalizing the use of chokeholds by police, which was signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio earlier today, the New York Post reports. In a letter submitted on Wednesday, Thomas Mungeer, president […]
Florida has, once again, broken its single-day record for new coronavirus cases. According to the Washington Post, officials reported an additional 11,458 cases on Saturday, breaking its previous single-day record that was set just two days ago. The alarming figure puts Florida on track to possibly surpass New York’s catastrophic one-day peak (April 15) of 11,571 cases. The Sunshine State has now tallied more […]
Hotel beds are always kind of gross, even under the best of circumstances. But that’s doubly true during a worldwide pandemic. On that note, Inside Edition recently conducted a sting operation to determine just how much of a shit high-end New York City operations give when it comes to sanitizing their rooms during the time of the coronavirus. As […]
A NYPD officer was caught on camera Sunday administering a now illegal chokehold on a Black man as three of his colleagues unnecessarily piled on top to detain him. The video was posted by TMZ. As he laid face down on the pavement, onlookers can be heard pleading for the cop with his arm wrapped around his neck […]
