Author: Angel - NYC

Gothamist – by John Knefel

Groups protesting police brutality staged a rally at the vigil site for Kimani Gray on Sunday afternoon, followed by a march that wound through East Flatbush and eventually to the 67th Precinct. Throughout the march, the 200 or so demonstrators were accompanied by an astounding number of police, one of whom brandished a megaphone designed as a non-lethal deterrent. At times police appeared to outnumber protesters by three or four to one. One protester was detained after stepping off of the sidewalk, but an NYPD spokesman could not confirm that any arrests were made.   Continue reading “NYPD Brandishes “LRAD X” At Kimani Gray Protest In Brooklyn”

Brandon Patch – by Linda Chion Kenney

Hillsborough County Fire Rescue was on the scene Saturday night, March 23, where a sinkhole reportedly opened between two homes in Seffner.

It was the third reported sinkhole in Seffner since Feb. 28, when Jeffrey Bush 36, died after the bedroom he was sleeping in was consumed by a catastrophic sinkhole at 240 Faithway Drive.   Continue reading “Another Sinkhole Opens in Seffner, Florida”

Huffington Post

NEW YORK — A new $12 million television ad campaign from Mayors Against Illegal Guns will push senators in key states to back gun control efforts, including comprehensive background checks.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the ad buy Saturday – just days after Senate Democrats touted stronger background checks while acknowledging insufficient support to restore a ban on assault-style weapons to federal gun control legislation.   Continue reading “Michael Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns To Launch Gun-Control Ad Blitz”

Gothamist – by  John Del Signore

Two train enthusiasts who were arrested for photographing in the subway have won a big victory for all New Yorkers who don’t want to show their papers while commuting. Steve Barry and Michael Burkhart were arrested in August 2010 at Broad Channel while waiting for one of the MTA’s beloved nostalgia trains to roll in. Barry, the editor of Railfan & Railroad Magazine, and Burkhart were taking photos on the platform when a cop approached them and told them that photography was prohibited in the subway system. This, as most of us know, is not true, and when Barry questioned the legality of the officer’s order, they were told to produce identification.   Continue reading “Cops Must Stop Arresting Straphangers Who Don’t Have I.D., Judge Rules”

Huffington Post – Agence France Presse

The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them more effective against government troops, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.   Continue reading “CIA Providing Intelligence To Syrian Rebels, Wall Street Journal Says”

Huffington Post – by Andres Jauregui

Darien Long, property manager of the Atlanta Metro Mall and darling of justice-related subreddits, is out of a job.

In an interview with Right This Minute, Long said that his last day on the job will be March 31. A representative for the broadcast news program told The Huffington Post that Long was fired because of publicity surrounding two videos he recorded on the job.

Long, who carries a firearm and a Taser stun gun, has a GoPro camera mounted on a bulletproof vest. His videos, which can be viewed on the YouTube channel “KickAssMallCop,” document the guard’s confrontations with people in the mall. Some show Long stunning people with Taser weapons. Continue reading “Darien Long Fired? ‘Kick Ass’ Atlanta Mall Cop Reportedly Loses Job Over Controversial Videos”

Canada Free Press – by Robert Laurie

This morning, during his weekly interview with John Gambling, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was asked about the NYPD using domestic drones in the city.  Bloomberg’s answer is…disturbing.

Bloomberg claimed that he wasn’t taking sides on the issue. “It’s not a question of whether I think it’s good or bad, I just don’t see how you can stop that because we’re going to have them.”“We’re just going into a different world. Uncharted,” he said. “Like it or not, what people can do, or governments can do, is different and you can to some extent control [it], but you can’t keep the tides from coming in. We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy. I don’t see how you stop that.”   Continue reading “Bloomberg: Drones are here to stay and you’ll have less privacy. Deal with it”

Huffington Post

Decades of hard tea drinking led to tooth loss and other bone problems for a 47-year-old Michigan woman, reports the New England Journal of Medicine. After treating the patient for severe pain in her back, arms, legs and hips, her doctor Sudhaker Rao discovered that consuming “astronomical amounts” of highly concentrated tea for nearly 20 years had caused her fluoride levels to spike to more than four times the normal amount.   Continue reading “Tea Addiction Results In Woman’s Tooth Loss”

CBS New York

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) – The New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association, joined by sportsmen’s groups, firearms businesses and individual gun owners, has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking an injunction to stop the state’s new gun control law.

The suit claims the law violates New York State residents’ Second Amendment rights.   Continue reading “N.Y. Gun Rights Advocates File Suit To Block Strictest In The Nation Law”

Politicker – by Colin Campbell

As the U.S. Congress debates gun control legislation, two of the countries’ leading advocates on the issue–Vice President Joe Biden and Mayor Michael Bloomberg–held a City Hall press conference today to pressure federal lawmakers to have enough “courage” to vote in favor of the bill when it hits the floor. Standing behind victims’ family members from last year’s massacre at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school, Mr. Biden and Mr. Bloomberg argued the measures being proposed are neither controversial or unconstitutional.   Continue reading “Biden and Bloomberg Team Up to Again Pressure Congress on Guns”

What’s On Ningbo

Thousands of dead prawns have washed up on a beach in Chile, sparking an investigation.

Hundreds of dead crabs were also washed ashore in Coronel city, about 530km (330 miles) from the capital, Santiago.

Fishermen suggested the deaths may have been caused by local power stations that use seawater as a cooling agent. The power firms have not commented.   Continue reading “Shrimp wave: Thousands of dead prawns wash up on beach in Chile”

WWNY TV

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that he’s proposing reductions in the cost of hunting and fishing licenses for both state residents and visitors.

The cuts are part of Cuomo’s proposed budget. They come just after Cuomo won sweeping gun control legislation, a move deeply unpopular with some hunters.   Continue reading “Cuomo Reduces Price of Hunting, Fishing LIcenses”

Times Union – by JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday blasted a plan to create an inspector general for the New York Police Department, vowing if needed to veto a proposal that he said would undermine the city’s crime-fighting success.

A day after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn signaled that the measure would likely pass the council, Bloomberg urged lawmakers to oppose it, saying it would usher in an era of second-guessing for a police force that has worked to drive crime to record lows.   Continue reading “Bloomberg says he’d veto proposal for NYPD monitor”

Huffington Post – by COLLEEN LONG

NEW YORK — Police brass in the Bronx were not concerned with whether patrol officers were saving lives or helping people, they were focused on one thing: numbers, said a New York City police officer testifying in a federal challenge to some street stops.

Adhyl Polanco said his superiors told him that he needed 20 summonses, five street stops and one arrest per month. It didn’t matter whether the stops were done properly, he said Tuesday.   Continue reading “NYPD Stop-And-Frisk Trial: Officer Testifies Quota Numbers, Police Brass Dictate Arrests”

IMHO, this has the NYPD’s surveillance program written all over it.

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — If you use social media, you may be at risk of getting locked out of your own account, and it’s not a scam.

As CBS 2’s Maurice DuBois reported Monday, Facebook is actually locking people out of their accounts on purpose.   Continue reading “The ‘Facebook Lockout’ Is Not A Scam; It’s Designed To Prevent Scams”