Eric Lach on Donald Trump’s campaign rally in the Bronx, and the ex-President’s bad behavior and offensive remarks at his Manhattan hush-money trial.
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Bronx drill rapper C Blu was released from custody Thursday as city lawyers continued mulling whether to bring charges against the 16-year-old for a police shooting in January that outraged Mayor Adams. Family Court Judge Gayle Roberts allowed the rapper to head home following more than a month in custody in a facility where he was permitted to only leave on weekends to visit his family. “You want me to follow the rules from probation and my mother. If I’m out past a certain time make sure I’m with an adult,” the rapper, born Camrin Wil ...
After shooting NYPD Officer Dennis Vargas in the Bronx Tuesday night, Rameek Smith was shot dead by police. Thankfully, Vargas is already home from the hospital. While Smith’s family may mourn him;...
The Bronx District Attorney quietly dropped all charges against a former Rikers Island physician’s assistant who was accused of sexually abusing four women inmates while working at the jail, the Da...
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It was not the result of a crash,” Black Lives Matter Greater NY co-founder Hawk Newsome said in Kingsbridge Heights Saturday as he visited the spot where Duprey, a father of three, was killed. “It was the result of an unhinged police officer who picked up a cooler full of sodas, full of waters, and slammed it into a man’s face who was riding a scooter down this block.” · Newsome said his group has given a new nickname to Sgt. Erik Duran, the officer under investigation and suspended w...
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit today against Kofi Amankwaa, a Bronx immigration lawyer, and others in his office, Sylvester
Mayor Adams on Wednesday denied there was a coverup in the death of a man who hanged himself in a holding cell in Bronx Criminal Court — but whose death wasn’t included in a tally of detainee fatalities. Antonio Bradley, 28, used his clothing to hang himself June 10. The Correction Department was aware almost right away that Bradley was in a vegetative state and would not recover, said Cary London, his family’s lawyer. Bradley died June 18 after he was taken off life support. Though the holding cells are the Correction Department’s resp ...
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