Police officers in dress uniform and other mourners joined a somber, four-block line outside a New York City church on Friday for the wake of one of two officers shot by a man who said he was avenging the killing of unarmed black men by police.
From the dingy donut shops of Manhattan to the cloistered police watering holes in Brooklyn, a number of black NYPD officers say they have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faced the biggest crisis of his political career on Sunday after a gunman killed two police officers in an attack intended to avenge recent police killings of unarmed black men in the United States.
On December 13, as thousands of protesters mobbed the New York streets, Yuseff Hamm, an NYPD police officer, was monitoring the demonstrations from a mobile command unit near the Brooklyn Bridge. As the protest drew near, Hamm and his fellow officers could hear the chants of the noisy throngs: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”
New York's police union is showing its displeasure with Mayor Bill de Blasio and the head of the city council by starting a campaign to keep the two politicians away from funerals of fallen officers.
Chicago city council members have proposed a ban on the use of chokeholds by police officers working within city limits in an expansive proposal coming in the wake of the chokehold death of an unarmed black man being arrested in New York.
Iraq has "credible" intelligence that Islamic State militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris and the United States, the prime minister said on Thursday, but U.S. and French officials said they had no evidence to back up his claims.
Led by President Barack Obama, Americans commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Thursday by observing moments of silence for the thousands killed that day at New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
Department of City Planning general counsel David Karnovsky will be looking forward to a new career at top law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson after working in the city government in the last 15 years.
"Every day over the past 12 years, I've awakened thinking about how to make our city stronger and safer, healthier and greener, freer and fairer, more just and compassionate, more innovative and forward-looking, with more opportunity for all," said outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his final radio address. "On Wednesday morning I will wake up and smile, knowing that we did everything we could to achieve those goals."
Democrat Bill de Blasio was elected the new mayor of New York City, scoring an overwhelming victory over Republican Joe Lhota on Tuesday night. De Blasio secured 73 percent of the vote while Lhota mustered 24 percent
New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio defeated his rivals in the Democratic primary to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday, Real Clear Politics reported. Joe Lhota, his soon-to-be Republican challenger, easily defeated in the other primary. The general New York City mayoral election is scheduled for November 5
