Police arrested Farrakhan Muhammad, 31, in Florida, on Wednesday morning
He was picked up by US Marshals while eating fries at a McDonald s parking lot in Starke, near Jacksonville in Florida on Wednesday morning
A local source claimed Muhammad was apprehended after his car ran out of gas due to shortages affecting the area after the Colonial Pipeline was hacked
The suspect shaved his long hair short in an attempt at a disguise, NYPD officers told a press conference Wednesday
Muhammad is believed to be the gunman who opened fire on a crowd in Times Square on Saturday night, injuring three people
Could the Barron political dynasty be overthrown?
Charles Barron is vying to win his wife Inez Barron’s New York City Council District 42 seat, which she is leaving this year due to term limits. The majority-Black district encompases East New York and its subsections such as Spring Creek and Starrett City. Charles Barron previously won the same seat in 2001. His wife won the Assembly seat in 2008 and they swapped seats when Charles was term-limited out of the City Council in 2013, with Inez running successfully to replace him and Charles then replacing her in the Assembly.
But some have grown tired of the Barrons’ seat swapping, particularly local politicos who say the district is in need of new leadership, pointing to the neighborhood’s high rates of poverty and unemployment, and a recent upward trend in shootings as some of the most pressing issues in the district. Others remember the iconoclastic, radical couple known for generating their share of controversy, for their
EXCLUSIVE: Let s be real the city is in freefall. NYPD union boss blames feckless Bill de Blasio and his imbecilic police reform laws for the Times Square shooting and turning NYC into a Wild West frontier town
In his exclusive essay for DailyMail.com, SBA president Ed Mullins blames Mayor Bill de Blasio and fellow officials for New York City s descent into lawlessness
The Big Apple, which is still reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, has also been experiencing an uptick in crime and violence
It faced further turmoil in the summer when protesters took to the streets on a near nightly basis urging officials to defund the police
Four people were injured in random attacks on NYC s subway in less than three hours on Wednesday morning. Crime in the city is up 30% from last year, as Bill de Blasio boasts of reopening the streets
Wed, May 12th 2021 1:57pm
Tim Cushing
One of the NYPD s unions the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) is feeling ways about stuff again. Last month, the New York City Council passed a number of police reforms which included taking away qualified immunity as a defense in civil lawsuits filed in local courts. The bill has yet to receive the governor s signature, but the SBA is already making its unhappiness known.
What was written as a cautionary advisory about the changing legal atmosphere is instead an unforced error that shows how often cops are protected by this immunity even when it s clear they ve violated rights. First, the SBA restates the doctrine s intent: