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Black storeowner rips looters for destroying her Bronx shop

A black storeowner ripped looters for destroying her Bronx shop, telling them to “get a job” and stop stealing, video shows. Lucy Hosley was filmed outside her shop, Valentine Deli, in a video posted to YouTube on Tuesday. “We’ve been here all night cleaning up. Tell me black lives matter. They’re lying,” said Hosley, who...

 

Thieves steal $16,000 worth of drones from Manhattan DJI store: cops

Surveillance footage released Thursday shows a pack of thieves breaking into a Manhattan drone store and swiping six pricey quadcopters. The five men targeted the DJI store on Broadway near West 52nd Street in Midtown around 11:25 p.m. Saturday, cops said. They’re shown shoving the glass door until it falls to the ground, and then...

 

Naked man pummeled after charging pedestrians in the Bronx: video

This certainly was a “bare” knuckle brawl. Startling video from Monday shows a naked man attacking bystanders in the Bronx, and then getting pummeled to the pavement. The graphic footage shows the 28-year-old naked man, wearing only a pair of white socks, streaking across East Fordham Road near Morris Avenue at 3:30 p.m. and charging a...

 

Authorities reportedly probing possible terror link in NYPD officer attack

Authorities are investigating whether the stabbing of an NYPD cop in Brooklyn was a terror-inspired assault by an immigrant from the Balkans, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Thursday. The suspect — who sources identified as Dzenan Camovic — posted anti-police writing on social media, sources said. A senior law enforcement source said that Camovic’s...

 

NYPD officers appear to beat passing cyclist with batons: video

Three NYPD officers were caught on video apparently beating a cyclist with their batons. One of the officers is seen whacking the cyclist as he peddles across an intersection, with the other two joining in to hit him as the man gets off his bike. The video was taken by a driver stopped at a...

 

Thieves steal nearly two dozen vehicles from Bronx storage facility: cops

Several men stole nearly two dozen cars from a vehicle storage facility in the Bronx this week, police said. The crooks broke into the Toyota Vehicle Storage Facility on Jerome Avenue in Bedford Park around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday. Surveillance video released by police shows the crew scoping out the lot, and one can be seen...

 

NYPD faces first major budget cut in decades amid ‘perfect storm’ of factors

The NYPD is facing its first budget cut in at least two decades — thanks to a “perfect storm” of events and “dire economic circumstances,” experts and insiders said. “You have the reality that the city is facing a multibillion-dollar deficit, you have the widespread protests, and you have overall crime being down,” former City...

 

NYC arrests dip below 200 during another night of George Floyd protests

The NYPD arrested fewer than 200 people during protests overnight — as cops cracked down on the curfew during the seventh night of George Floyd rallies in the Big Apple. At least a quarter of those arrests happened in Cadman Plaza West around 9 p.m. Wednesday when police charged at a crowd trying to get...

 

Decision on reopening sleepaway camps is a week away, Gov. Cuomo says

A decision on when and whether to reopen sleepaway camps in New York will come next week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday. Cuomo said state health officials are “furiously” researching the rare Kawasaki-like inflammatory disease that has sickened more than 100 children in anticipation of green-lighting sleep-away camps this summer. “We have to have...

 

Cuomo still stands by coronavirus nursing home order despite death toll

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday yet again doubled down on his decision to send coronavirus patients to nursing homes from hospitals — despite it potentially factoring in to more than 5,000 deaths. The governor reiterated a March 25 health department mandate that required all nursing homes to accept residents who tested positive for COVID-19. “So...

 

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