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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'policebrutality'

August 2, 2008

Today at 2pm in Tompkins Square Park, there will be a punk concert to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the police riots that took place there. The NY Times has an account of the battle between cops and protesters that took place back on August 6th and 7th, 1988 over a city-imposed curfew of 1 a.m. that had been enacted in an attempt to clean up the rampant homeless population and drug usage that dominated......

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July 30, 2008

As the NYPD is caught in the controversy of a police officer apparently shoving a Critical Mass bicyclist to the ground for no reason, another disturbing video has surfaced showing a police officer beating a man repeatedly with a baton. WNBC aired the footage which shows Brooklyn resident Michael Cephus being struck on Delancey Street in Manhattan earlier this month. According to police, Cephus was allegedly drinking and had swung at police officers with......

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June 28, 2008

An 8-year veteran of the Yonkers police department was arrested for allegedly "body-slamming" a woman at a restaurant in 2007. Wayne Simoes was arrested and charged, per the U.S. Attorney's office, "with violation of federal civil rights laws" because it's illegal to for law enforcement to use "excessive force..the course of an arrest, stop, or seizure." In March 2007, Irma Marquez's niece, who was hit with a bottle at La Fonda restaurant, was being treated......

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