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The entire Buffalo police Emergency Response Team has resigned following the suspension of two officers who were caught on video shoving a 75-year-old protester to the pavement, according to reports Friday. A total of 57 officers resigned from the emergency team in solidarity with the two suspended cops, who pushed Martin Gugino, causing him to...

The Brooklyn lawyer accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail into an NYPD vehicle blamed Mayor Bill de Blasio for not holding back cops for their own protection less than an hour before the incident, according to a video interview. “I think this protest is a long time coming,” lawyer Urooj Rahman said near the Barclays...

Two of the three NYPD cops who were injured in an unprovoked attack in Brooklyn this week were released from the hospital Friday to a cheering crowd of fellow officers. The policeman who was stabbed in the neck in the Wednesday late-night attack in Flatbush gave two thumbs up after getting out of his wheelchair...

The public advocate just made his criticism of the mayor's handling of Big Apple protests personal -- accusing de Blasio of using his biracial family as a political shield.

The Legal Aid Society has appealed a judge’s ruling from Thursday denying the release of protesters whose arraignments are overdue. On Tuesday, the legal group filed a petition seeking the release of all people who were arrested and hadn’t been arraigned within 24 hours — as is legally required barring necessary delays — as the...

A city correction officer allegedly posted a sickening online parody of the George Floyd death photo — with the white worker shown kneeling on the neck of his union’s black president — resulting in his suspension Friday. The image was posted Thursday to the Facebook page of city Correction Department driver Derrick Lascko and deleted...

Mayor Bill de Blasio rejected calls Friday to end the city’s curfew policies — as criticism from other top city leaders over police enforcement of the policy grew. “My plan is to continue the curfew throughout the week,” de Blasio told reporters during his daily briefing. “Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night, same schedule 8...

Christopher McDonnell, 54, was confirmed as the 44rd member of the department, and sixth detective, to succumb to COVID-19, according to the president of the Detectives' Endowment Association.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants state lawmakers to pass a bill next week making it a hate crime when 911 callers make a false accusation based on race, gender or religion. The legislation, first introduced in 2018 and carried by Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn), was rejuvenated last month by a now-viral incident in Central...

Martin Gugino — the 75-year-old man who was shoved to the ground by Buffalo police in a video seen by millions — is a long-time peace activist and “gentle person,” according to friends. The resident of Amherst in Erie County is a member of the People United for Sustainable Housing Buffalo and anti-nuclear group Kings...