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On Wednesday night's The Daily Show this week, host Jon Stewart got serious when he opened his show discussing the grand jury decision to not?indict a New York Police Department police officer in the death...
Just a day after the Grand Jury ruling that failed to indict killer cop Daniel Pantaleo, a demonstration began in Foley Square in New York City to express outrage. What began as a?simple protest became...
// // Before I started writing this story about the lack of indictment for the cop that killed Eric Garner, several of my fellow Liberal America writers said they were simply too angry to even...
// // On Rush Limbaugh's Facebook page, a New York state fire chief wrote that our "traitor" president should be "shot" because of his executive action on immigration.   Mother Jones reports: Last week, Limbaugh posted a photo...
When a Brooklyn woman with a heart condition was on vacation in the Poconos over the summer, she had an episode and had to be taken to the hospital. It was her heart doctor who...
Disgraced NYPD sergeant Alberto Randazzo (courtesy Daily News)
Last year, New York City was roiled by news that a New York Police Department sergeant had been charged with possession and solicitation of child pornography. But that wasn't even the half of it. On...
What happens when the New York Times takes a group of second graders to one of the finest restaurants in Brooklyn? Awesomeness. From the Times: One Saturday afternoon last month, six second graders from P.S. 295...
Last year, Macy's came under fire amid reports that minority customers were unjustly profiled by loss prevention agents at its flagship store on Herald Square in Manhattan. The complaints were serious enough that New York...
Barneys New York's flagship store on Madison Avenue and 60th Street in Manhattan (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
On Monday, Barney's New York, a high-end department store in New York City, agreed to pay over $500,000 to settle claims that it improperly profiled minority customers. This comes after an investigation by the New...
  Another story has come out of New York that is concerning many people throughout the social media universe. A call was made to an apartment complex in Brooklyn regarding a domestic dispute. The NYPD showed up,...
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If you haven't caught wind of this already, an unknown number of persons slipped past the NYPD's ever-vigilant anti-terror surveillance grid before dawn Tuesday morning, climbed up to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge towers...
Eric Garner was a 400 pound, 6'4 black man, who died after a member of the?NYPD put him in a choke-hold on Thursday in Staten Island, NY. According to witnesses, Mr. Garner was trying to break...
John Wallace, vice president of the New York Oath Keepers. (From Wallace's Facebook)
    We already knew that Oath Keepers, the right-wing group of active and retired military servicemen and law-enforcement personnel who have declared they will not enforce laws they feel are unconstitutional, was a pretty extreme bunch....
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    New York state Sen. Ruben Diaz is on a roll -- a holy roll. At a March for Marriage event on Thursday, he encouraged participants to fight against same-sex marriage even if the Supreme Court...
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    We have our "Democrats Who Disappoint" category for these kind of faux pas. It's not that we aren't loyal to our peeps -- it's just that...well...we have to stay on our toes in our movement...
The window at the Hookah Spot in New York City, where Javier Payne was nearly killed (courtesy Juvenile Justice Information Exchange)
In what appears to be one of the most horrifying cases of police brutality in recent memory, a New York City teenager nearly died this past weekend after a New York Police Department officer smashed...
  As I mentioned on Saturday, Congressman Michael Grimm, the only Republican representing a significant portion portion of New York City in the House, learned late Friday he was about to be indicted on federal criminal...
The New York Daily News reported on Monday that a Manhattan woman is suing Chipotle because they fired her from her job after she took time off to recover from an attack from her abusive...