An anti-Israel protest at Columbia University turned violent when a demonstrator struck a Jewish student in the face, accusing him of being a Nazi during a heated altercation involving a snatched flag.
The suspected killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, who went viral for his smiley photo, was grinning because he was flirting with a female hostel worker.
A gun-trafficking group that brought in guns to New York was busted by the NYPD following months-long operation. A couple from New Jersey was arrested, along with their 3 other accomplices in Virginia and another from Georgia. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. sought for lawmakers to create a gun kingpin statute that will elevate the punishment for gun traffickers who sold more than 20 guns illegally.
One of two cops charged in the vicious beating of a postal worker was previously sued for allegedly hitting a man with his baton. The city settled for $30,000 without admission of wrongdoing from the cops involved.
Peter Liang, who was initially convicted to manslaughter, has had his conviction reduced to criminally negligent homicide. He is now facing five years' probation and 800 hours of community service. Liang claimed he accidentally shot Akai Gurley on a dark stairwell in Brooklyn housing complex.
The trial for the NYPD officer Peter Liang who accidentally killed Akai Gurley in 2014 has started. The Akai Gurley fatal shooting case trial begins on Monday, Jan.
The New York Police Department will tighten safeguards against illegal surveillance of Muslims in secret investigations of terror threats. The city paid damages of about $1.6 million for the plaintiff's legal fees.
Thousands of policemen from around the United States gathered on Friday at the funeral of a 25-year-old New York City officer who was shot in the head while on patrol, making him the third member of the NYPD killed in the line of duty since December.
New York City has settled with the family of an unarmed black teen fatally shot by police in 2012, agreeing to pay $3.9 million, officials said on Friday.
Two people were killed after a shooting in a Home Depot store in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood on Sunday afternoon in what appears to be a murder-suicide, two New York Police Department (NYPD) spokesmen said.
A new inspector general blasted the New York City Police Department on Monday for failing to punish officers who used banned chokeholds on citizens, sometimes as a first response in a confrontation.
