LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ted Goodman A prominent New York City police union released a video decrying anti-police violence and rhetoric in what it is calling “blue racism.” “The average person doesn’t see those things that make me human,” the video says, referring to police officers. “They don’t even label me based on being African…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A Queens postman testified against two New York Police Department officers Thursday, alleging they terrorized him. Karim Barker told the court that the NYPD officers brutally assaulted him because he unknowingly gave directions to a cop killer, reports the New York Daily News. “I won’t ever be…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A former New York Police Department officer killed himself after the FBI approached him during a traffic stop Wednesday. Gerard Benderoth, also a bodybuilder, shot himself in the head when the FBI and state agents came up to arrest him, reports the New York Daily News. “While…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The famous actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested by the NYPD late on Wednesday night at his own art exhibit. A video from 30-year-old LaBeouf’s own livestream shows him being cuffed by the cops outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York. The livestream is…
By: Laura Meyers New York police commissioner, Bill Bratton, said it is difficult to find would-be, black police officer recruits because so many have criminal records. In an interview, Bratton said, ““We have a significant population gap among African-American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t…
Bernard Kerik : You Can’t Let People Act Like ‘Savages’ and ‘Animals’ Former Commissioner of the NYPD Bernard Kerik appeared on CNN to discuss the events in wake of the release of the grand jury’s decision in Ferguson, Missouri not to indict Officer Darren Wilson. Kerik defended the actions of the officers in Ferguson, saying, “You cannot…
BRONX, NY–Javier Payne, 14, was with a friend last week when they asked a 49-year-old man for cigarettes. The two grew irritated when they were denied with one punching the man in the head, while the other hit him with a backpack. They ran off, but the older man flagged down a patrol car and…