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Mayor Bill de Blasio rejected growing calls to slash the Police Department’s budget as the Big Apple’s financial crisis deepens and outrage over the NYPD’s handling of post-curfew protests mounts. “I do not believe it’s a good idea to reduce the budget of the agency that’s here to keep us safe,” de Blasio said Friday...

The NYPD arrested 240 people overnight as protests over the police-involved death of George Floyd continued across the city, authorities said Friday morning. The arrests came as police enforced the citywide 8 p.m. curfew imposed earlier this week, arresting multiple demonstrators in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn who continued to march in defiance of the...

Police finally enforced an 8 p.m. curfew Thursday evening by busting up protests across the city — making dozens of arrests. Thousands of protesters had continued to march in defiance of the deadline, including in Upper Manhattan, in the Bronx and in Brooklyn, on the eighth day of citywide demonstrations against police brutality. An approximately 100-person...

Mayor de Blasio chided the NYPD in a tweet Friday morning for arresting a food delivery man in Upper Manhattan after the city’s curfew had gone into effect, despite him being considered an “essential worker.” The mayor said arrests of essential workers by cops “must stop” as the city continues to enforce an 8 p.m....

The man caught on camera chasing down Black Lives Matter demonstrators with a Wolverine-type claw in Queens is now charged with attempted murder, authorities announced Thursday. Frank Cavalluzzi, 54, was filmed chasing protesters in Whitestone on Tuesday while wearing a glove affixed with four long, serrated-edged blades — before getting into his SUV, driving onto the...

Mayor Bill de Blasio was shouted down with boos and shouts of “F— you, de Blasio” when he tried to take the podium at a George Floyd protest in Brooklyn on Thursday. “F— the mayor’s curfew!” some shouted. “Turn your back! Turn your back!” others shouted. Many in the crowd did turn their backs. “Shut...

The younger brother of George Floyd thanked a throng of demonstrators in his home borough of Brooklyn on Thursday, telling them he was proud of them and encouraging them to continue their fight — peacefully — for justice. “I’m proud of your protest,” Terrence Floyd told some 5,000 protesters gathered at Cadman Plaza, after taking...

The NYPD has patrolled the George Floyd protests in undercover cars — disguised as NYC yellow cabs. A short clip posted to Twitter Tuesday night shows a yellow Toyota Camry with an “NYC T” emblazoned on its driver’s side door and a taxi roof light — but also flashing police lights in the grill. “This...

The man suspected of stabbing an NYPD cop in the neck without warning is a “practicing Muslim” whose family is from Bosnia — but he’s “absolutely not a terrorist,” a relative who was interviewed by federal terrorism investigators said Thursday. The relative also said that Dzenan Camovic, 20, never expressed any anti-police sentiment to him...

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