Sen. Rick Scott, colleagues reintroduce Protect and Serve Act increasing penalities for targeting law enforcement
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In this Feb. 23, 2018, photo,the police hat of New American Diversity and Inclusion Officer Khaled Bhagat, with the Columbus Police Department, sits on the floor in front of him as he attends Friday prayer at the Masjid Ibnu Taymiyah Islamic Center in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Ty Wright)
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â Senator Rick Scott joined colleagues to reintroduce legislation that would create federal penalties for individuals who deliberately target local, state, or federal law enforcement officers with violence.
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NYPD Reformer s City Council Candidacy Finds Financial Support From Fellow Officers
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When NYPD Lieutenant Edwin Raymond blew the whistle on alleged arrest quotas pushed by the department, he became a target of scorn and derision from his superiors who wrote poor job evaluations, which hobbled his career. His revelation that a numbers-obsessed NYPD was purposefully arresting Black and brown New Yorkers as a means of being proactive which he opposed despite confidants advising he keep quiet earned him national prominence and exhortations from supporters to run for office.
Five years after secretly recording superiors pressing him to meet arrest quotas, which resulted in an ongoing federal class action lawsuit filed by 12 officers (Raymond included) against the city, he took his supporters advice by running in this year’s Democratic primary for Brooklyn s 40th Council District. The winner of the pri
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Regardless of whether you celebrated romance or patriotism over the double holiday weekend, you probably had more fun than Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The governor was in Washington, D.C., on Friday
during a frenzied fallout from reports his administration withheld certain nursing home death numbers for fear of federal investigation. And he didn’t emerge to address the situation until Monday, during a nearly 90-minute virtual briefing
Last week, the Civilian Complaint Review Board recommended Ed Mullins face discipline for abuse of authority and using offensive language. Mullins, though a full-time union president, is still a sergeant and can face internal NYPD discipline.