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Nation Apr 16
Grand jury in Prude death voted 15-5 to not indict 3 copsNewly released transcripts show that a grand jury investigating the police suffocation death of Daniel Prude last year in Rochester, New York, voted 15-5 not to charge the three officers involved in his restraint of a criminally negligent homicide charge…
Nation Mar 31
Suspect in attack on Asian American woman in New York City is arrestedA parolee convicted of killing his mother nearly two decades ago was arrested on charges including felony assault as a hate crime for attacking an Asian American woman near New York City’s Times Square.
Nation Mar 12
Probe faults mayor, officials for keeping Prude death secretThe report said Mayor Lovely Warren lied at a September press conference when she said it wasn't until August that she learned officers had physically restrained Prude during the March 23 encounter.
Politics Feb 16
Here are the criminal investigations and lawsuits looming over Trump after impeachmentA Democratic congressman filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Trump of conspiring with far-right extremists in the Capitol riot, and the attorney general of Washington, D.C., is weighing charges over the riot as well.
Nation Jan 21
Judge says New York lawsuit seeking NRA’s dissolution can go forwardA New York judge on Thursday denied the National Rifle Association’s bid to throw out a state lawsuit that seeks to put the powerful gun advocacy group out of business.
Nation Dec 18
Watchdog criticizes NYPD methods at Floyd protests for stoking conflictThe six-month probe focused on the NYPD's institutional planning and response to the May and June protests and not the actions of individual officers.
Economy Dec 09
U.S. government, states bring antitrust action against FacebookFederal regulators asked for Facebook to be ordered to divest its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the U.S. government and 48 states and districts accused the company of abusing its market power.
Nation Oct 26
New York City sued over clashes with Floyd protestersTwo civil rights organizations are suing New York City on behalf of protesters who say they were roughed up by police officers because they expressed anti-police views during nightly demonstrations in the spring in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Nation Oct 14
White woman charged in racist NYC run-in made a 2nd 911 callProsecutors say the white woman charged with filing a false police report for calling 911 during a videotaped dispute with a Black man in New York’s Central Park in May made a second, previously unreported call. In the second call,…
Nation Aug 31
NYPD to adopt guidelines for disciplining officer misconductThe New York Police Department is unveiling a discipline matrix that will guide decisions on officer punishment similarly to how sentencing guidelines are used in criminal cases.