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Brooklyn Politics News Roundup Brooklyn Borough President and current mayoral candidate Eric Adams. (Image: Todd Maisel/Bklyner) It’s been a busy week in Brooklyn politics. Here are some key stories you may have missed: De Blasio likes Eric Adams’ “story.” Mayor Bill de Blasio met last week with key labor leaders—the presidents of District Council 37, the Hotel Trades Council and 32BJ SEIU—to discuss the race to replace him, and to voice concern about the impact of “a Bloomberg-like type that would undo or would regress the city back 10, 12 years,” The Mayor didn’t endorse ...

NYPD Reformer's City Council Candidacy Finds Financial Support From Fellow Officers arrow Edwin Raymond GRIFFIN LIPSON/BFA/SHUTTERSTOCK 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 pr...

Will the Queens special election be a 2013 replay? When supporters of ranked-choice voting make their case for why the new voting system is good for Black and Latino New Yorkers, they’ll often point to a specific race: the February 2013 special election in City Council District 31 in Queens. There, a white, Orthodox Jewish candidate named Pesach Osina came within 79 votes – less than 1 percentage point – of winning a Southeast Queens district that – as of the 2010 census – was 68% Black, 16% Hispanic and just 11% white. Besides Osina, the other seven candidates on the ballot, i...

People, treat others like you want to be treated. you know, if you do that in life then good things are going to happen. sometimes i think for a lot of of these, though grow up in different situations, different environments or whatever. i understand. i got pulled over a couple times. i had a nice car or whatever. but also, i got pulled over my black cops. i had a friend who got shot by a black cop. you know, so to me in our community, i think we have to do more. it's great what they do on tuesday. i think as a league if we're trying to help everyone in this process, i think, yes, it's not jus...

Tuesday. i think as a league if we're trying to help everyone in this process, i think, yes, it's not just seattle sea hawks. i think everyone needs to have a platform. >> 32 teams, right. >> all 32 teams get on tuesdays and talk about social equality. >> you talked about police. i want to bring in edwin raymond. he supports colin kaepernick and others like him in the nfl. he says he's seen issues between law enforcement and minority communities from the inside. i think he has a question. welcome. thank you for your service. >> thank you. all right. based on the dialogue this evening and it se...