By Travis Morales.
Why are police who brutalize and murder rarely if ever charged, much less convicted and sent to prison?
BROOKLYN, NY (Workers World Today) — Three days before Christmas, 1994. The Baez family is altogether. Around 1 a.m., four of the Baez brothers go outside, and start a game of touch football. Everybody’s happy, playing around…then the ball goes off target, thud…it hits the roof of a cop car parked on the street. “Sorry […]
Rafael Espinal, candidate for NYC Public Advocate, is honored to accept the endorsement of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Joint Council 16, which represents 120,000 workers and 27 local unions in and around New York City. George Miranda, President of Joint Council 16, said: “Rafael Espinal has stood up for working people when their jobs were […]
NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered his sixth State of the City Address on Thursday. Taking the stage at the Symphony Space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the Mayor highlighted a series of sweeping proposals aimed at fighting income inequality across New York City. Policy promises focused on health care, workers’ rights, and tenant protection […]
NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has granted pardons to several Caribbean nationals, including five Jamaicans, convicted of minor drug and other offenses and saving them from possible deportation under the Donald Trump administration’s tough policy on immigrants. Cuomo said he was granting clemency to 29 immigrants “who have demonstrated […]
MARBLE HILL, Manhattan (WABC) -- Police are investigating after the manager of a Target store in Manhattan was held up at gunpoint while counting cash Monday morning.
BY ABC7 MARBLE HILL, Manhattan (WABC) — Police are investigating after the manager of a Target store in Manhattan was held up at gunpoint while counting cash Monday morning. It happened at the location on 225th Street in the Marble Hill section around 8:20 a.m. Authorities say the manager was counting the money in the safe […]
A few days before Yoselyn Ortega plunged a knife into two young children she had been hired to babysit, she woke in the dead of night and started throwing pots and pans at the walls of the kitchen in her family’s Upper Manhattan apartment. Her sister rushed in to restrain her. The next morning, Ms. Ortega told […]
