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THANKSGIVING for Timothy Cardinal Dolan meant 10 relatives in from a place called Missouri. New Yorkers have heard of it. Only nobody knows where it is.

When correction staff didn’t aid an asthmatic older man struggling for life in a Rikers Island jail, his fellow detainees were moved to act themselves.

Title: Victor Trammell for Your Black World | Photo credits: : Molly Crabapple for The Guardian Story by The Associated Press  An anonymous black woman who says she was shackled by police for hours while in active labor has settled a lawsuit against New York City for $750,000, her lawyers announced last Thursday. The woman, who filed the lawsuit anonymously, was arrested for a minor charge in 2018 when she was more than 40 weeks pregnant, she said in the suit filed in Brooklyn federal court. She was handcuffed and shackled during labor and after she gave birth to her son, according to the la...

A woman who says she was shackled by police for hours while in active labour has settled a lawsuit against New York City for $973,155 her lawyers announced Thursday. The woman, who filed the lawsuit anonymously, was arrested for a minor charge in 2018 when she was more than 40 weeks pregnant, she said in the suit filed in Brooklyn federal court. She was handcuffed and shackled during labour and after she gave birth to her son, according to the lawsuit filed by The Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP. “Shackling pregnant people is a dehumanising and poin...

NYC to pay $750,000 to woman who was shackled during labor Follow Us Question of the Day     By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press - Thursday, April 22, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) - A woman who says she was shackled by police for hours while in active labor has settled a lawsuit against New York City for $750,000, her lawyers announced Thursday. The woman, who filed the lawsuit anonymously, was arrested for a minor charge in 2018 when she was more than 40 weeks pregnant, she said in the suit filed in Brooklyn federal...