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Councilmember’s Cop Bite Charges Dismissed After She Undergoes Restorative Justice
A Brooklyn judge dismissed the assault charges against Councilmember Susan Zhuang, the South Brooklyn Democrat who bit a police officer in a scuffle in her district against a forthcoming homeless shelter last summer. In a courtroom Tuesday morning, Assistant District Attorney David Ingle said Zhuang and NYPD Deputy Chief Frank DiGiacomo had taken part in […]
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Nine Years After Fatal Shooting, NYPD Cop To Face Disciplinary Trial
In the nearly nine years since off-duty police officer Wayne Isaacs shot and killed 37-year-old Delrawn Small in an alleged road rage incident in Brooklyn, a criminal prosecution, an acquittal, two lawsuits, an appeal and three investigations have unfolded. But so far, there has been no NYPD disciplinary trial for Isaacs, who shot Small three […]
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Green Card Holder Targeted for Detention Questions Basis for Warrant to Search Her Dorm
Attorneys for a Columbia University student who has been living legally in the U.S. since age seven are questioning whether the Trump administration, which has been seeking to detain and deport her, “provided incorrect or false information” to a magistrate judge to obtain a warrant to search her dorm room. In a court filing submitted […]
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How a Group of EMTs Made a Speedy Escape From a Boss-Friendly Union
For years, workers at Citywide Mobile Response, a Bronx-based ambulance service, griped about what they described as their absentee union. Whenever medical equipment and safe trucks were in low supply, they said, their complaints to management fell on deaf ears — and their union was nowhere to be found. The frustrations led to a campaign […]
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Wheelchair User Trapped at Rehab Sues NYCHA for Accessible Apartment
In 2013, New York City Housing Authority tenant Susan Bourne had a stroke that completely paralyzed the right side of her body. The former clerical associate for the Administration for Children’s Services had moved to her Staten Island apartment 30 years earlier with her young son. But she hasn’t been back since the incident. For […]
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