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Elizabeth Ballinger, 17, the teen who was captured on viral video being viciously assaulted last month in a Brooklyn McDonald’s, was arrested Friday night on weapons possession charges, the New York Daily News reports. RELATED: Another McDonald’s Brawl Involving Teens Leaves Good Samaritan Injured Ballinger was at Linden Plaza in East New York waiting on an unidentified 19-year-old […]

Police investigating a brutal brawl that occurred in a Brooklyn McDonald’s have arrested five teenagers in connection with the beating that left a 15-year-old girl with a concussion, contusions, and bruises. The attack, caught on camera and uploaded to Facebook, eventually went viral on the internet, catching the attention of law enforcement officers and a concerned […]

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Officials arrested a Brooklyn teenager for creating emojis showing a gun to a police officer’s head, DNAinfo reports. SEE ALSO: Willow Smith At Center Of Seemingly Topless Instagram Officers cuffed Osiris Aristy (pictured) last Sunday in his Bushwick apartment for using the symbols in a way causing “New York City police to fear for their safety,” per a […]

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Hatchet-wielding Zale H. Thompson was shot and killed Thursday in Jamaica, Queens, N.Y., after he allegedly lunged at a group of officers with the weapon, critically injuring one, the New York Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: DOJ Official Blasts Leaks In Michael Brown Case Police are trying to determine just what motivated 32-year-old Thompson to allegedly attack about […]

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Unlike in NYPD officer Daniel Panteleo’s case, a Staten Island grand jury panel was less sympathetic to Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner’s fatal police encounter. A Staten Island grand jury Wednesday decided not to indict Pantaleo, who put Garner (pictured right), an unarmed Black man, in a chokehold shortly before his death, […]

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Black Lives Matter founder Patriss Cullors lead a protest at Netroots Nation in Phoenix, Arizona, effectively shutting down the speeches of presidential hopefuls Martin O’Malley and Sen. Bernie Sanders, MSNBC.com reports. “It’s not like we like shutting sh*t down, but we have to,” Cullors said. “We are tired of being interrupted.” With shouts of “Black lives […]

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  Two NYPD officers, Tyrane Isaac and David Afanador, are under investigation for beating and pistol-whipping an unarmed teenager in Brooklyn. Kahreem Tribble, 16, had his hands up at the time of the attack. Gawker reports: The two officers were pursuing Tribble after he allegedly dropped a bag of weed and began running at 1311 […]

After two young Black men were killed by officers in New York City and Cincinnati this week, the death toll for the number of people killed by police in the nation rose to 500 — more than twice the rate most recently recorded by the FBI in 2013, according to The Guardian. The numbers are […]

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A 32-year-old Long Island, New York bank clerk, who was confined to a mental ward for eight days after saying President Obama follows her on Twitter, has filed suit against a New York City hospital, according to the New York Daily News. Kam Brock endured forced injections of powerful sedatives and was ordered to swallow lithium, among […]

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GOP leaders have vowed to continue to challenge President Barack Obama on several issues. On Wednesday, The White House issued more vetoes against top-priority legislation of the predominately Republican Congress. One of the major changes that the GOP leaders are looking to make is to the Affordable Care Act, which would change the requirements of […]

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Philip Banks III, the top uniformed official in the New York City Police Department, has resigned as chief of department on the eve of a promotion. In a move that has shocked many, the force’s highest-ranking African American stepped down just before he was to take a new position as first deputy commissioner under William Bratton. According to […]

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NYPD Officer Gregory Zakoscielny’s razor-sharp observation saved the life an unnamed 49-year-old woman who was choking behind the wheel of her car on the Bronx River Parkway Wednesday afternoon. The female motorist, traveling in a 2014 Ford Taurus,  was choking on a throat lozenge when she passed by Zakoscielny’s patrol car. He pulled her over and when she […]