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At a recent New York City mayoral forum on policing and community safety, candidates were asked for two things they would do as mayor to ensure that police who kill, brutalize or harass people are fired. Maya Wiley, the first to answer, began as if reading off her own resume. “As someone who has been a civil rights lawyer my whole career, and racial justice advocate, and has worked on a criminal justice initiative in post-apartheid South Africa and chaired the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board – including getting the Daniel Pantaleo case over to the police department with charges, and fighting to hold on to civilian prosecution of that case – we have to do a couple of things,” Wiley said, in not quite one breath but certainly one run-on sentence.
New York City mayoral candidate and comptroller, Scott Stringer, was accused by a woman claiming to be a former intern at a press conference Wednesday of nonconsensual contact, including groping and unwanted solicitations for sex.
Jean Kim, who says she interned for Stringer s 2001 campaign for New York City Public Advocate, said Wednesday that Stringer repeatedly groped me, according to multiple news reports. The allegations were initially laid out in a press advisory sent Tuesday evening.
“During this campaign, I traveled back-and-forth to campaign events with him. Scott Stringer repeatedly groped me, put his hands on my thighs and between my legs and demanded to know why I wouldn’t have sex with him,” Kim told reporters on Wednesday, according to CBS 2.
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Alicka Ampry-Samuel works out of a two-story office building overlooking an expanse of vacant land, in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. She grew up a few blocks away, in one of the area’s nearly two dozen public-housing complexes. When she was fifteen, her closest friend, a girl she’d known since early childhood, got into an argument with a boy from another housing development. “And he pulled out a gun,” Ampry-Samuel said. The funeral was held at the St. Paul Community Baptist Church, a local institution. Teen-agers filled the pews. In the eulogy, a pastor told Ampry-Samuel and others to honor their friend’s life by “going to school and serving God.”
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On a spring afternoon in 2015, three NYPD officers were on patrol in Bedford-Stuyvesant, when they noticed a red Chevy Impala with dark tinted windows.
Officers Vaughan Ettienne, Ryan Galvin, and Mark Xylas, part of their precinct’s plainclothes Anti-Crime team, pulled the car over. Police said they smelled the odor of marijuana. When the driver couldn t provide the proper paperwork, the cops said, they ordered the driver out of the car.
That’s when they noticed a large straight-edge knife resting on the floorboard, according to the NYPD. The officers cuffed the suspect and took him to the station. The knife was just the beginning: Inside the car, police said they later found a long, black machine gun with two high-capacity magazines, one of which was loaded.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday released a $98.6 billion executive budget proposal for the 2022 fiscal year, relying on new federal funds to massively increase spending aimed at spurring the city’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
The mayor’s “recovery budget” invests deeply in New Yorkers, he said at his budget presentation from City Hall, with resources going towards fair student funding, summer youth programs, early childhood education, job creation, gun violence prevention, mental health services, nonprofit community groups, small businesses, and more.
The executive budget reflects a $6.3 billion increase in spending compared with the mayor’s preliminary budget proposal released in January, when the administration was uncertain about the level of federal stimulus that would be delivered by the federal government and prepared for the worst-case scenario. But the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act approved by President Biden and the Democratic Congress in Ma