Two Shot Outside Franklin Avenue Restaurant
They need to put some tape up here because this is a straight up crime scene," said a young woman as she passed Sushi Tatsu II, on the corner of Dean Street and Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights. Indeed...
View Article‘Where is the Outrage?’ Councilwoman Asks About Death of Shem Walker
“Why does it continue to happen that black and brown men – Latino and African-American men – die at the hands of the NYPD?” asked Councilwoman Letitia James (video above) at a community meeting on the...
View ArticleThe Job of a Brooklyn Cop
“Man the hood is shutdown tonight,” said a young man standing on the corner of Bergen Street and Nostrand Avenue around 11pm Sunday night. He had “only made a buck tonight.” That young man, holding...
View ArticleOn NYPD Stop & Frisk, Hakeem Jeffries says ‘Jim Crow may be dead,’ But ‘still...
Hakeem Jeffries must be really dedicated to the youth vote - the state assemblyman and now congressional candidate won't let the issue of stop and frisk and racist drug policy laws die, kinda. From his...
View ArticlePolice Commissioner Answers Questions at Medal Day Ceremony
The morning after residents of Crown Heights took the Police Commissioner to task for drug dealing, prostitution and quality of life issues in the neighborhood, Ray Kelly was awarding the Deputy...
View ArticlePolice Commish Mum On Anti-Gay Allegations Against Cops
There was an elephant in the basement of Berean Baptist Church in Crown Heights on Monday, when Police Commissioner Ray Kelly spent an hour addressing the questions of residents concerned with...
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