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An inmate at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn died after being pepper sprayed by prison officers on Wednesday, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said. Officers at the Sunset Park lockup responded to inmate Jamel Floyd’s cell at about 10 a.m. after he shattered his cell-door window with a metal object, the spokesperson said...

A mysterious fleet of propeller planes was spotted flying banners over New York Wednesday congratulating a “New Federal State of China.” Puzzled and exasperated New Yorkers spotted the banners from Manhattan, flying over the Hudson, and down over Red Hook in Brooklyn. “I officially have no idea what the f–k is happening anymore,” one person...

NYPD officers cracked down on curfew-breaking protesters in Manhattan and Brooklyn on Wednesday, making at least 60 arrests on the seventh day of citywide demonstrations against police brutality. Cops were quicker to enforce the 8 p.m. curfew than they had been on Tuesday, when one group of protesters marched well past deadline, getting cut off...

The first daughter kept her cool and didn't join in on the anti-NYPD chants coming from the others in the paddy wagon, a fellow arrestee tells The Post.

The animal rescue group who confiscated Central Park Karen’s dog after her racist confrontation with a birdwatcher went viral last month said Wednesday that it will return the pooch. The rescue group, Abandoned Angels, said in a Facebook post that vets determined Amy Cooper’s dog was in good health and that law enforcement authorities refused...

Two police officers were shot and a third was stabbed in a confrontation with a suspect in Brooklyn late Wednesday night, police and sources said. The melee unfolded when a suspect approached a cop on Church Avenue near Flatbush Avenue at about 11:45 p.m. and stabbed him in the neck, a police source said. Several...

The City Council has secured a veto-proof majority for legislation to criminalize NYPD chokeholds, Speaker Corey Johnson said Wednesday. With 35 Councilmembers supporting the bill, it can become law over the objection of Mayor de Blasio, who has said he would only sign the bill if language was added to exempt officers in “a life...

The Roman Catholic bishop of Brooklyn, already under a church investigation for alleged sex abuse, has been accused by a second man of abuse in the 1970s, when the bishop was a parish priest in New Jersey. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio “repeatedly sexually abused” Samier Tadros starting when he was about 6 years old, according to...

A teen involved in the slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors has pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery in the case and faces up to 18 months in detention. Zyairr Davis, 14 — who had previously been charged with murder — copped to the robbery count, admitting that he helped two pals in the botched...

Peaceful protesters, mostly-outsider anarchists and largely homegrown looters have converged on New York’s streets in a perfect storm of chaos during the George Floyd demonstrations, city officials said Wednesday. In the clearest delineation yet of the three, often-competing factions, Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea in a joint press briefing outlined the...