NEW YORK — A 25-year-old police officer shot in the head over the weekend while attempting to stop a man suspected of carrying a handgun has died from his injuries, the third New York Police Department officer slain in the line-of-duty in five months, a City Hall official said Monday. Brian Moore was pronounced dead […]
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Two cops ambushed, fatally shot in car; gunman kills himself
NEW YORK (AP) — The warning came just moments too late: A man who had shot his ex-girlfriend a few hours earlier had traveled to New York City and vowed online to shoot two “pigs” in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner. Just minutes before a wanted poster for Ismaaiyl Brinsley arrived […]
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Unarmed man killed by police in NY housing complex
NEW YORK — A rookie police officer walking with his gun drawn in a darkened stairwell of a crime-ridden public housing complex accidentally shot and killed a man who was leaving the building with his girlfriend, authorities said Friday. “What happened last night was a very unfortunate tragedy,” Police Commissioner William Bratton said. “The deceased […]
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Bashtag: NYPD Twitter campaign backfires
NEW YORK (AP) — To put it in social media terms, the New York Police Department got trolled. The nation’s largest police force learned the hard way that there are legions online devoted to short-circuiting even the best-intentioned public relations campaign — in this case, the NYPD’s Twitter invitation to people to post feel-good photos […]
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NYPD designates mosques as terrorism organizations
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorist organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Designating an entire mosque as a terrorism enterprise means that anyone who attends prayer services there is […]
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NYPD commissioner: Stop-frisk ruling will hurt minorities
NEW YORK (AP) — Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly assailed a federal judge’s finding of racial discrimination and demand for changes to his department’s stop and frisk practice, telling a Sunday news show that minority communities will be “the losers” if the ruling isn’t overturned. During interviews on three different shows, Kelly also raised questions about […]