Federal judge demands answers after Rikers detainee dies with a fractured skull
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Federal monitor Steve Martin and lawyers representing the city moved at a hearing Thursday to bar the public release of a report Martin is due to file in February — and Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain signed off on the request. The Daily News is weighing options for a potential challenge to the sealing order, according to executive editor Andrew Julien.
Mayor Adams made the case that he's best suited to fix Rikers Island and the city's other embattled jails because of his own criminal history and ethnicity.
“He gets arrested and they give him lunch and dinner, then release him,” the husband told the Daily News.
Final Call News by Barrington M. Salmon and Nabaâa Muhammad The Final Call @TheFinalCall As the first anniversary of George Floydâs murder approached, Blacks and others reflected demands made since May 25, 2020, the day the 46-year-old Black man was murdered by a White cop as onlookers screamed for him to stop kneeling on a dying manâs neckâand even videotaped his crime. What has happened after calls for change from millions who took to the streets night and day for months after Mr. Floydâs untimely death? they asked. Most troubling, activists and advocates say, is in...