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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s daughter was arrested at a Manhattan protest on Saturday night, law enforcement sources told The Post on Sunday. Chiara de Blasio, 25, was taken into custody around 10:30 p.m. after cops declared an unlawful assembly at 12th Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan, the sources said. She had...

Mayor de Blasio on Sunday night visited parts of Brooklyn that endured “challenging dynamics” during protests over George Floyd’s death. After two nights of heated demonstrations in the area — where protesters and cops clashed — the mayor walked around Flatbush and Bedford-Stuyvesant listening to the concerns of community leaders. The mayor spoke to elected...

The NYPD arrested 345 people by early Sunday following heated protests over George Floyd’s death that saw police cars set on fire and violent clashes, police sources said. Chaotic scenes erupted Saturday during the third night of protests, leaving 33 cops injured and 47 police vehicles damaged, sources said. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea praised the...

A female Manhattan cop distraught over relationship problems fatally shot herself in the head, police sources said Sunday. The NYPD officer, who worked at the 23rd Precinct in East Harlem, was found dead by her fellow-cop girlfriend early Sunday in the living room of their Bronx home, sources said. The girlfriend had just returned home...

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday blamed a new breed of highly organized anarchist hell-bent on violence for violent protests that have rocked the city. “We’re seeing something new, and not just here in New York City, but all over the country,” Hizzoner said of the violence. The “x-factor,” he said, were groups who were...

There is “no plan” to impose a curfew on New York City amid the ongoing chaotic protests over the racially charged death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday. “No, there is no plan for a curfew,” de Blasio said during a press briefing, the...

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday ordered an urgent investigation into cops who rammed NYPD SUVs into a crowd in Brooklyn — while openly blaming the protesters. “I did not want to ever see something like that, and I don’t want to ever see it again,” he said of the “disturbing” video that showed the...

The state’s daily coronavirus death toll hit its lowest mark in more than two months over the weekend. There were 56 deaths from the contagion reported Saturday, “which is, in this absurd reality we live in, actually very, very good news,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday at his daily press briefing. “This reduction in the...

The National Guard is “on standby” in New York if needed to help quell chaotic protests over the death of George Floyd, a black Minnesota man, at the hands of white police officer Derek Chauvin, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. Though the troops are yet to be deployed, they are waiting in the wings with...

A 30-year-old woman and her two sons — 2 and 10 years old — were found dead in their Flushing, Queens, home Sunday, police and a relative said. The NYPD confirmed that three bodies were found around 11 a.m. at 37-17 111th Street — the Shangri-La Plaza – but didn’t release further details. A cousin...