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They picked the wrong Target. Viral video shows looters trying to smash their way into a Brooklyn Target late Saturday — just to be stopped by a human wall of protesters. “F–k no!” one protester repeatedly screamed, standing in front of the Atlantic Terminal Mall with a lengthy poll held to stop anyone crashing into...

Michael Gianaris, the second most powerful leader in the New York Senate, said he will no longer accept campaign contributions from police unions and law enforcement groups following the death of George Floyd and tense interactions between protesters and police. “I am donating all contributions received from police PACs for my re-election to bail funds...

A nurse who treated the state’s coronavirus “patient zero” says in a new lawsuit that she and her family ended up battling the contagion — and debilitating fallout — because of gross negligence at her hospital. The healthcare worker and others at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville “were offered up as sacrificial lambs to be slaughtered...

An NYPD officer ripped the mask off a young, black protester Saturday in Brooklyn — only to pepper-spray him in the face, video shows. The young man was seen in footage posted to Twitter with his hands up in the air as officers order the group of demonstrators to move. In the clip, the protester...

Alberto Rottura — a New York City hairstylist whose clients included bold names like Michael Bloomberg and Tom Wolfe — died after a weeks-long battle with the coronavirus, his family said. Rottura, 77, passed away last Monday at Lenox Hill Hospital, where he had been fighting COVID-19 since early April. The immigrant son of an...

Just hours after violent protests over the death of George Floyd rocked the city leading to hundreds of arrests, NYPD officers in Queens took a knee beside demonstrators on Sunday, as civilians read the names of black people killed by cops. Video posted on Facebook shows at least three officers kneeling in the street at...

The Big Apple woke up Sunday to shocking scenes of destruction from the city’s third night of demonstrations over George Floyd’s death — including a torched NYPD car and an Apple store vandalized. Photos showed an NYPD smart car was burned and left overturned on its side Sunday morning outside of the Bloomingdales in Soho....

Video shows the moment that a woman threw a lit Molotov cocktail into an NYPD car full of cops — shouting at the crowd, “get out of my mother-f–king way.” Samantha Shader, 27, of Catskill, New York, appeared to light the makeshift explosive before screening the crowd early Saturday in Crown Heights as protests over...

The woman who allegedly threw a lit Molotov cocktail into an NYPD car full of cops early Saturday has been slapped with a federal charge of damaging a police vehicle — a far cry from the attempted murder charges sought by the NYPD. Samantha Shader, 27, of Catskill, New York, allegedly tossed the makeshift explosive...

A peaceful protest in Harlem erupted in violence Saturday afternoon, when multiple marchers attacked an occupied police van, hurling objects at it and breaking its windows. Some 1,000 protesters had rallied without incident at the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard to decry the police custody death of George Floyd — but...