Morning Docket: 02.23.21

* A lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of New York City fitness studios argues that exercise facilities should be allowed to operate despite COVID-19. Guess people soon might not have an excuse to stay away from the gym... [Pix 11] * The Supreme Court has declined to get involved in the defamation lawsuit Stormy Daniels filed against Donald Trump. [Forbes] * Two New York City lawyers, who allegedly torched an NYPD car last year, have purportedly been offered a plea deal. [New York Post] ...
Tags: New York Post, Supreme Court, Law, California, New York City, Starbucks, Nypd, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Forbes, HARRIS, Stormy Daniels, Newsday, Morning Docket, COVID-19, Juris Lab

Law & Order: Organized Crime First Look & SVU Crossover Premiere Date Released

Law & Order: Organized Crime first look & SVU crossover premiere date released NBC has released the first look at Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler as he reprises the character in the network’s upcoming Law & Order: Organized Crime series. The show will premiere on Thursday, April 1 on NBC as part of a two-hour crossover with Law & Order: SVU. (via Deadline). if ( ! ezoic_test() ) { PB = PB || {}; PB.gptStandAlone = PB.gptStandAlone || ...
Tags: TV, New York, Movies, Nbc, Law, Chicago, TV News, Mariska Hargitay, Nypd, McDermott, Christopher Meloni, Stabler, Dylan McDermott, Universal Television, Ilene Chaiken, ComingSoon

Christopher Meloni’s Law & Order Spin-Off Adds Dylan McDermott

Christopher Meloni’s Law & Order spin-off adds Dylan McDermott Emmy-nominee Dylan McDermott (Hollywood, American Horror Story) is continuing to expand his television resume as he has signed on to star alongside the Christopher Meloni-fronted Law & Order spin-off Organized Crime, according to Variety. RELATED: Mariska Hargitay Teases Law & Order: SVU Reunion With Stabler! if ( ! ezoic_test() ) { PB = PB || {}; PB.gptStandAlone = PB.gptSt...
Tags: TV, New York, Movies, Nbc, Syfy, Chicago, TV News, Mariska Hargitay, Nypd, Hulu, McDermott, Christopher Meloni, Stabler, Dylan McDermott, Ilene Chaiken, ComingSoon

Morning Docket: 01.12.20

* Pope Francis has changed church law to allow women slightly larger roles in church services. Maybe he was inspired by the movie On the Basis of Sex... [Washington Post] * An NYPD lawyer is under investigation for allegedly threatening to shoot another attorney in her unit. [New York Daily News] * A show based on the film The Lincoln Lawyer has been greenlit for a 10-episode run on Netflix. [Deadline] * A black lawyer claims he was racially profiled by law enforcement for not wearing a sui...
Tags: New York Post, Law, Washington Post, Uncategorized, Netflix, Pope Francis, Nypd, New York Daily News, Dungeons And Dragons, Morning Docket, On the basis of sex, The Lincoln Lawyer

Fake Bomb In Stolen Tesla Was Planted By Radical Right Asshole, NYPD Says

New York City police discovered suspicious-looking devices — very much intended to look explosive — on a stolen Tesla outside a Queens shopping mall early Monday morning. In addition to a gas cannister and wires, there was a husky calmly sitting in the car. Read more...
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NYPD union boss says shooter felt emboldened to open fire on cop

The 27-year-old cop was likely saved by his bulletproof vest after being shot in the back while responding to a domestic dispute just...
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NYPD's New Robot Police Dog Will Get Special Arm For Opening Doors

The New York Police Department’s new robot dog will receive a special robotic arm for opening doors and moving objects next month, according to a new report from ABC7 in New York. The existence of the NYPD’s robot was first revealed in late October after it assisted in the apprehension of a suspect in Brooklyn. But d…Read more...
Tags: New York, Science, Privacy, Surveillance, Brooklyn, Drones, Queens, Robots, Civil Rights, Nypd, Robot, New York Police Department, Boston Dynamics, Spot, Frank Digiacomo, Robot Dog

Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins Dies at 93

David Dinkins, New York City’s first and only Black mayor, has died at 93. Two senior NYPD officials confirmed to NBC New York that...
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Miles Morales Reforms Spider-Man's Relationship With the Police When It Needs to Be Abolished

Insomniac’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales follows the fledgling webhead as he steps out from under Peter Parker’s shadow. He’s defending New York City on his own for the first time just as a bitter ground war breaks out between the nefarious Roxxon Corporation and the tech-powered Underground movement. New as Miles is to…Read more...
Tags: Politics, Science, Video Games, Police, New York City, Race, Marvel, Racism, Sony, Police Brutality, Nypd, Marvel Comics, Black Lives Matter, Spider Man, Peter Parker, Insomniac

NYPD official in charge of handling workplace harassment accused of decades of racist ranting

NYPD Deputy Inspector James F. Kobel has allegedly been posting racist messages under the name "Clouseau" on a popular NYPD message board for more than 2 decades, according to the New York Times: Between the summer of 2019 and earlier this fall, "Clouseau" posted hundreds of messages on the Rant, many of which attacked Black people, Puerto Ricans, Hasidic Jews and others with an unbridled sense of animus. — Read the rest
Tags: Post, News, Police, Police Misconduct, New York Times, Nypd, Racists, Racism In America, Racial Abuse, Racist Police, James F Kobel

$1m judgment against NYPD cop who barged into house and yelled racial slurs

Michael Reynolds, then a NYPD officer, headed to Nashville for a bachelor party in 2018. While there he got drunk, got lost, then broke into a house near his Airbnb and began yelling racist slurs at the people who lived there: "Try to shoot me, I'll break every bone in your fucking neck, you fucking n—–". — Read the rest
Tags: Post, News, Nashville, Airbnb, Police Brutality, Nypd, Michael Reynolds

NYPD tells officers to prepare for deployment in expectation of election protests

The commissioner of the New York Police Department told all uniformed members to prepare to be deployed for protests before and after next month's presidential election, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN.
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NYPD officials threaten discipline and consequences if officers don't wear masks

The New York Times reports: New York City police officials instructed all officers to wear masks in public or risk discipline, as the department faces mounting criticism over officers' failure to comply with a state mandate that people wear face coverings in public when social distancing is not possible. — Read the rest
Tags: Post, News, Police, Police Misconduct, New York City, New York Times, Nypd, Policing, Police Accountability, Police Reform, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Wear A Mask

How did an NYPD officer from Tibet end up accused of spying for China?

Baimadajie Angwang, accused of ‘reporting on activities of Chinese citizens’, targeted a community center in Queens, stoking divisions in the communityFor staff of the Tibetan community centre in the New York neighbourhood of Woodside, the alarm bells started ringing when a local police officer suggested that they should stop flying the Tibetan flag outside their building.The NYPD officer – who was himself Tibetan – was a familiar face: Baimadajie Angwang had dropped by the Tibetan Community of ...
Tags: New York, Tibet, China, World news, US news, Queens, New Jersey, Espionage, Nypd, Woodside, Baimadajie Angwang, Tibetan Community of New York

An NYPD officer and US Army reservist has been arrested and accused of spying on Tibetan New Yorkers for China

The Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in New York is seen as spectators line the Hudson River in 2010 for the annual July 4 fireworks display. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Baimadajie Angwang, a 33-year-old NYPD officer and US Army reservist, was arrested on Monday and accused of spying for China, multiple reports say. Federal prosecutors that Angwang spied on Tibetans living in New York and offered Chinese officials access to NYPD officials and information about the...
Tags: New York Post, New York, Tibet, News, China, New York City, US, Trends, Taiwan, Fbi, United States, News UK, Cbs, Fox News, Chinese communist party, Nypd

NYPD Officer Spied on Tibetan New Yorkers for Chinese Government: Feds

A New York City police officer was arrested Monday by federal authorities, who say the cop has been secretly working as an agent of the Chinese government for the past six years.The accused officer, Baimadajie Angwang, 33, is a community affairs liaison at the 111th Precinct in Queens. He is a former member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, and now serves as a civil affairs specialist in the Army Reserve, according to prosecutors. Angwan served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and holds a se...
Tags: New York, Tibet, News, Washington, China, Iraq, New York City, America, Fbi, Afghanistan, Beijing, Brooklyn, Queens, Chinese communist party, Nypd, NGO

The Blue Wall Of Silence

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. “Most cops are punks. They ain’t going to say shit. But I don’t care. I always say what I want.” I sat a minute with that statement and not only because it was coming from a friend. I sat with it because my friend is a retired NYPD cop who spent 22 years on the force. David Wright, 69, was talking to me from the comforts of quarantine. I was asking Wright why no Black or brown cop I emailed and called was willing to go o...
Tags: New York, London, News, White House, New York City, America, Fbi, David, Brooklyn, Gop, Hillary Clinton, George Orwell, Portland, Ferguson, Jesus, Royal Court theatre

Gay candidate has epic clap back for police union that called him a “first class wh*re”

Let it be known that New York city councilman Ritchie Torres does not suffer homophobic police officers who hide behind Twitter accounts. Torres, who’s currently running for Congress in New York, has been in bitter back-and-forth with NYPD union leader Ed Mullins over a tweet sent from the Sergeants Benevolent Association official Twitter page last week. Mullins is the president of SBA, which represents around 13,000 active and retired police sergeants. The since-deleted tweet, sent on Septembe...
Tags: Politics, New York, Congress, Police, New York City, Lifestyle, NFL, America, Racism, Ed, Homophobia, Nypd, New York Police Department, Black, Ad Friendly, Queerty

NSSF: New York’s Gun Control Utopia is a Living Hell

By Larry Keane New York is an anti-gun dystopia. IMG iStock-884181314 U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- New York City is a gun control utopia, where benevolent politicians including Gotham’s mayor are hell-bent on making it as difficult as possible for guns to be a part of a free society. Criminals, though, seem to be running rampant. New York’s gun control is making New York City a living hell, and not just for gun owners. It’s turning the city’s streets into murder zones where innocent children can...
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The Car That Hit Times Square Protesters Used to Be a Police Cruiser

Last night, New York City police were filmed in Times Square, gently ushering Black Lives Matter counter-protesters into the back of a black sedan, which very much resembled a police cruiser, with New York plates. The same car almost immediately plowed through a crowd of protesters. While the driver could easily have…Read more...
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Even Rudy Is Sick of His Biden-Ukraine Conspiracies

Four years ago, Rudy Giuliani took to the stage at the Republican National Convention to deliver a shouty monologue about how his friend Donald Trump would usher in a new era of law and order and end the racial strife prompted by police killings of Black men. Four years later, Giuliani is back at the RNC. He’s still shouty. And this time he’s monologuing about how  an unprecedented wave of protests, civil strife, and outrage over yet another new round of police shootings is why we need to re-ele...
Tags: New York, News, Obama, White House, New York City, America, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Ukraine, Brooklyn, Bronx, Oprah Winfrey, Republican, Biden, Nypd, Kansas City

NYPD creates Asian Hate Crimes Task Force after spike in verbal, physical assaults amid pandemic

There have been 21 reported anti-Asian hate crimes since March, due to racist rhetoric about coronavirus, Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said         [Author: USA TODAY]
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NYPD creates Asian Hate Crime Task Force after spike in anti-Asian attacks during Covid-19 pandemic

The New York Police Department announced the creation of an Asian Hate Crime Task Force after an increase in racist attacks against Asian Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic, Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison told reporters Tuesday.
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Which NYPD officers have most complaints against them? | Mona Chalabi

The repeal of a controversial law means preciously secret allegations of misconduct have now been made publicIn New York, thousands of police discipline records that were kept secret are now public thanks to a change in the law. A statute known as 50-a meant the public could not know about complaints made against police officers or the outcomes of those complaints but, after the mass anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in May, activists in New York successfully pus...
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Video Shows NYPD Officers Forcing Protester Into Unmarked Van

A viral video that emerged Tuesday night shows several New York Police Department officers wearing T-shirts and shorts grabbing a protester and dragging her toward an unmarked vehicle, according to video footage filmed and posted to social media by bystanders. NYC is taking after Portland – a trans femme protestor was pulled into an unmarked van at the Abolition Park protest – this was at 2nd Ave and 25th Street pic.twitter.com/1PDhSYuK9h — michelle lh࿊࿊q (@MichelleLhooq) July 28, 2020 ...
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NYPD chief tells officers to not let chokehold ban stop them

The NYPD's chief of department raised eyebrows in a meeting on Thursday when he told officers they can't let chokehold bans keep them from doing their jobs.
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As NYC Crime Rates Skyrocket, de Blasio and Shea target “Gun Violence”

Image a screenshot of Youtube video FDRV, 30 May, 2020, cropped by Dean Weingarten U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- In response to a skyrocketing violent crime rate in New York City, Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Shea have proposed a package of responses. One of those is to institute more gun “buy backs”. Here is some background leading up to this proposal. In 2020, New York City has instituted controversial reforms in their criminal justice system. One of the changes is the elimination of ...
Tags: New York, Guns, NYC, New York City, Department Of Defense, United States, Arizona, Bill De Blasio, Beatty, Nypd, Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Brooklyn Bridge, New York City Police Department, De Blasio

Mariska Hargitay Teases Law & Order: SVU Reunion With Stabler!

Mariska Hargitay teases Law & Order: SVU reunion with Stabler! After announcing earlier this year that Christopher Meloni (Happy!) would be reprising his iconic Law & Order: Special Victims Unit role of Elliot Stabler in a new spin-off series, co-star Mariska Hargitay took to Instagram to confirm a reunion between the two stars is happening! Check out the post below! RELATED: Christopher Meloni to Reprise Elliot Stabler in SVU Spin-Off! PB = PB || {}; PB....
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NYC Shooting Surge Highlights de Blasio’s Ineptness and Futility of Anti-Gun Edicts

Bill de Blasio can't dictate his way out of New York City's problems, which means that's exactly what he'll continue trying to do as long as other people's money holds out. (Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons Share Alike 2.0.) U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “NYC's surge in gun violence sees spike in kid, teen and young adult victims,” WNBC-TV 4 reported Monday. “New York City has been grappling with an outstanding increase in gun violence over the past few months.” Shooting stats are up overall and ac...
Tags: Facebook, New York, Guns, New York City, Department Of Defense, Bloomberg, Brooklyn, Bill De Blasio, Ivy League, Resistance, Nypd, Bill Bratton, Michael Bloomberg, New York State, Che Guevara, De Blasio

Woman arrested after NYPD chief and 3 officers injured following clash with protesters

The New York Police Department arrested a 24-year-old female in connection with an attack on police officers that left three with "serious injuries," the department said.
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