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☆ Eric Adams faces pressure to resign as New York Democrats plot next moves
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

CNN —New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the rank-and-file transit cop who rose to the city’s most powerful office, is no longer the master of his political destiny. President Joe Biden, asked at the White House on Thursday if Adams should resign, said, “I don’t know.”What will Jeffries do? “We need Eric Adams to be successful as mayor because he is the mayor at this moment in time,” Jeffries said. “No one is above the law, including the Mayor of New York City,” Schumer said in a statement. “This is squarely about Mayor Adams’ ability to govern New York City, and for the New York City governance to be fully staffed to serve the people of New York City,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters Wednesday afternoon on Capitol Hill before news of the indictment broke.

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☆ Suspect accused of stabbing Jewish man in Brooklyn is charged with hate crimes
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A 22-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple hate crimes Monday after, police said, he yelled “Free Palestine” before he slashed a Jewish man in the torso near a synagogue in Brooklyn, New York. Police alleged that Vincent T. Sumpter, of Brooklyn, stabbed the 33-year-old man around 2 a.m. Saturday near the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidic Judaism. A 33-year-old man was slashed in the attack in Crown Heights in Brooklyn on Friday. Crown Heights Shmira via X.comResidents chased the attacker and detained him until police arrived, he said. Videos posted by the X account Crown Heights Shmira appear to show the stabbing.

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☆ For Years, He Demanded to See the Video. Finally, It Set Him Free.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Hurubie Meko | Olivia Bensimon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As his murder trial began in December 2009, Arvel Marshall made a desperate plea to his lawyer: Ask for surveillance videos of the Brooklyn street where he was accused of fatally shooting a 22-year-old man. Mr. Marshall’s lawyer made a halfhearted request for the footage. The prosecutor said initially that it did not exist, then that it was not accessible, and the judge moved the trial along. Mr. Marshall was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. The video in question, captured from a nearby building, showed two men, neither of them Mr. Marshall, walking down a Crown Heights street toward where Moustapha Oumaria was sitting outside his home with three friends.

Persons: Arvel Marshall, Marshall, Oumaria Locations: Brooklyn

☆ Ex-Moelis Banker arrested on assault charges after viral punching video
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Jonathan Kaye was arrested on assault charges after a video of him punching a woman went viral. Banker Kaye resigned from Moelis last week after it said it was conducting an investigation. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA senior banker who resigned from Moelis last week after a viral video showed him punching a woman was arrested on assault charges Monday morning. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ 18 Charged in Gang Violence That Killed Two 16-Year-Old Boys
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Eighteen teenagers and young men who the authorities said belonged to street gangs were charged on Wednesday with unleashing a wave of gun violence in Brooklyn that killed two 16-year-old boys and injured 10 others over a three-year period. Some of the people charged were as young as 14 when they committed crimes that included firing guns at people, according to prosecutors. During a news conference, Eric Gonzalez, the Brooklyn district attorney, played a series of surveillance videos that showed young men and boys, wearing hoods or masks, opening fire on busy streets, often in broad daylight. One video showed a young couple walking with a stroller on a sidewalk just before shooting erupted. In another clip, people could be seen scattering, running into stores or ducking behind garbage cans to avoid bullets.

Persons: Eric Gonzalez Locations: Brooklyn, Crown Heights, Bedford, Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Flatbush

☆ Man Who Shot Another on Subway Train Unlikely to Be Charged, D.A. Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Hurubie Meko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A 32-year-old man who shot a second man in the head during an altercation on a moving A train Thursday evening appears to have acted in self-defense and will not be criminally charged for now, the Brooklyn district attorney said on Friday. The shooting, which followed a frightening, chaotic confrontation on a crowded subway car during the evening rush, left the second man, 36, in critical but stable condition. The gun he was shot with was one he brought onto the train and brandished during the altercation, the police said. Oren Yaniv, a spokesman for the district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, described the shooting as “shocking and deeply upsetting.”“The investigation into this tragic incident is ongoing,” Mr. Yaniv said in a statement, “but, at this stage, evidence of self-defense precludes us from filing any criminal charges against the shooter.”

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“I lost 14 years of my life for a crime that I didn’t commit,” Steven Ruffin told a Brooklyn judge after sighing with emotion. Ruffin told the detectives they could retrieve the gun from his sister's boyfriend, and they did, prosecutors' report said. Prosecutors didn't release the boyfriend's name Thursday, and the names of lawyers who have represented him weren't immediately available. He told prosecutors during their recent reinvestigation that he had nothing to do with the shooting and didn't give detectives the gun. Asked Thursday about the boyfriend, Ruffin's lawyers noted that the prospect of any prosecution now is uncertain.

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In December 1982, four armed men burst into a bodega in Brooklyn serving as a front for marijuana dealing and ordered two men working inside to hand over drugs. The men then shot the clerks, killing one of them, Jairam Gangaram, a 32-year-old father of four girls. Five years later, a jury convicted Detroy Livingston of second degree murder following the testimony of a troubled young woman with an addiction to crack cocaine who claimed to be at the scene. Mr. Livingston, who had rejected a plea deal that would have set him free within 12 years, was sentenced to 25 years to life. On Friday, prosecutors from the office of the Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, agreed that Mr. Livingston’s conviction should be vacated and the charges against him dismissed.

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☆ Trump Org is battling prosecutors over 3 little words that could swing the New York tax-fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

It's not enough, they'll be told, for Trump Org executives to get caught selfishly stuffing their pockets. Prosecutors, meanwhile, find the three words so worrisome, they asked the judge — unsuccessfully — to strike them from the case entirely. In defense of their love or hate of the three words, the sides have cited a gamut of arcane case law and other source material. Holtzman — who, as a US Congresswoman, voted to impeach Richard Nixon — is the author of "The Case For Impeaching Trump." Much of the case law being cited, the judge said, was not quite on point, including the bilge and thermometer decisions.

☆ Boyfriend arrested in death of 22-year-old woman found dismembered in suitcases at NYC apartment
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The boyfriend of a 22-year-old woman found dismembered, with her body parts stuffed into two suitcases, in her New York City apartment has been arrested in her grisly death. Justin Williams, 24, was arrested Monday and arraigned on indictment charges of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced. Johnson went home after work on Aug. 21 and “and never exited the apartment again,” Gonzalez said. He then allegedly dismembered her body and concealed the remains in the two suitcases. Williams allegedly fled the apartment following a wellness check by building personnel who became concerned after they didn’t see Johnson for some time.

☆ Fact Check-Hoax about serial killer posing as taxi driver in New York City resurfaces
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A fabricated report that is several years old about a New York City taxi driver who is a serial killer has recirculated on social media. An example can be seen (here) with the text: “*** Warning *** This is a man with Taxi number (2465RB) in NY Who drives around taking People to kill. A Google search on the story or on the license plate number produces no credible results to support the claims about a New York City serial killer taxi driver (bit.ly/3Sl6ZBE), (bit.ly/3ShD25K). The story has been debunked by fact checkers Snopes (here) in 2018 and PolitiFact (here) in 2022. There is no evidence of a serial killer posing as a taxi driver in New York City.

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