The trial of the NYPD officer who fatally shot Ramarley Graham, an unarmed 18-year-old from the Bronx, is slated to begin on Tuesday.
The settlements of lawsuits brought on by individuals who were wrongfully convicted of crimes, families of those killed by police officers, and disability rights activists, equate to millions of dollars in payouts.
New York City will reportedly give 1 percent pay increases to police officers who have to wear the cameras.
The suspect, Isaac Duran, 23, told authorities he strangled Felicia Barahona, the 36-year-old mother of his child, with an electrical cord and then drowned Miguel, his toddler, in the bathtub.
Witnesses also claim Barnes threw punches at a man and woman who tried to intervene.
John Bunn, 39, was just 15 years old in 1991 when a jury found him and another teen, Rosean Hargrave, guilty of murdering an off-duty corrections officer and attempting to kill another man. The convictions were won with information from corrupt NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella.
The 21-year-old is being praised after a video of him saving a girl from an alleged sexual assault while riding a bus in Queens made its rounds.
New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said police were "called to help a person in crisis." Sadly, things didn't end that way.
A 66-year-old woman was shot and killed by a police sergeant in her Bronx apartment after she allegedly charged at the sergeant with a baseball bat.
A New York cop shot and killed a 66-year-old Black woman wielding a bat in the Bronx on Tuesday evening. Police say they will investigate why the officer used lethal force instead of his Taser.
Ramsey Orta, the Staten Island man who filmed Eric Garner's death, has been sentenced to four years in prison in a (supposedly) unrelated weapon and drugs case.
Dubbed “Heal our Communities,” the event was hosted by The Amadou Diallo Foundation, an initiative launched by his mother to focus on racial healing through education.
