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Lawrence Dilione and James Rackford charged with the murder of Joseph Comunale after stabbing him 15 times in the chest during a night of private partying.

Former NYPD Chief of Detectives Boyce questions DA after no hate crime charge in Chinatown stabbing WABC Share: CHINATOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- The wave of violent unprovoked attacks against Asian Americans may end up with a man losing his life. Sources say the 36-year-old stabbed in his back in Chinatown last week with an 8-inch-kitchen knife is not likely to survive but is still fighting for his life. Meanwhile, community leaders are outraged after the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance d...

If anyone has seen this individual, saturday the 20th, between 1:2:00 and 2:30 p.m., call our crime stoppers hotline, 1-800-577-tips. the male is a male, black, 61", approximately 235 pounds. he was wearinging the clothing you see over here that chief boyce describes -- particularly id like you to focus on that patch with the indian arrowhead in red and white. very distinctive. if you saw that male on saturday the 20th during those hours in bed-stuy or fort green, call our crime stoppers hotline...

Television and in the movies. we are moving along fairly quickly fortunately. and ill ask chief boyce to speak to the particulars, which he did yesterday, about the controversy that someone is trying to create between this department and baltimore. there is no controversy. its an awful tragedy that occurred. one of the things that i think youre well aware of, our district attorney for manhattan, has moved forward is the equipping of all of our officers with smartphones and 6,000 of our police ve...

And then we can then continue the dialogue that had begun about issues and differences that exist. so i want to thank them for that action. i think its appropriate that the focus has to be on our murdered officers and their families to ensure that we honor them and honor them in the way that the nypd has traditionally always done for its fallen heroes. almost 48, 49 hours ago, two officers were murdered. as i rempx as i referenced, the detectives of the nypd have done an extraordinarily skillful...

Would describe as copycat types of threats and we have been investigating those as you would expect with incredible care. as of this time, none of them have proven to be anything of significance. however, we always err on the side of caution and will continue as these threats come in, copycat or otherwise to focus on them and follow up on them. so with that, we are now going to be able to answer questions for any of us here at the podium. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> let me ask chief boyce to s...

Detectives for the city of new york police department, whos been leading the investigation from the murder of our two police officers. the chief of patrol, carlos gomez, and chief of department, jimmy oneal. to my right is first deputy commissioner ben tucker and the mayor of the city of new york, bill de blasio. what we look to do today is several things. the mayor and i this morning had the opportunity for the second time to meet with the families of our two murdered officers. we had met with ...

He was, that jacket is distinctive, with that indian sign on it. hes wearing very distinctive shoes as well. we found another instagram message that morning threatening to kill police. we have a very disturbed young man here. you want to -- >> yeah, good afternoon, ill reiterate what chief boyce has already said. where its seeking the communitys assistance with this very important investigation. weve been able to establish the whereabouts of ismaaiyl brinsley from the early morning hours of satu...

Alert on a description of a black male, mid-20s that basically is making threats against police officers. so that issue in terms of timeliness and the current state of the art for advancing information between agencies, were continually trying to find better ways to improve that. let me ask chief boyce to speak to the particulars of this case because there has been some confusion on time lines. i thought we made it clear about that yesterday. but obviously some of you might not have been at that...

Please. [ inaudible ] >> we have no sense at this time that theres any connectivity to terrorist groups, an act of terrorism. we see nothing of that nature at this particular time. commissioner miller and his people are certainly looking at that aspect of it. chief boyce, chief of dete detectives, hell be in charge of leading the criminal investigation. we dont see any organized activities, but were really trying to learn as much as we can as quickly as we can about this individual. [ inaudible ...