After a group of teens attacked five people following a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert two weeks ago ("leaving one man with a fractured eye socket, another unconscious and a boy with multiple facial fractures"), the Newark police have decided to increase security at the Prudential Center for tomorrow afternoon's Game 3 between the Devils and Rangers.
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Prudential Center Heightens Security For Devils-Rangers Game 3
Quinn Proposes Boycott Of Fight-Happy Village McDonald's
A St. Patrick's Day fight was apparently the final straw. After a video of St. Patty's melee outside of a West Village McDonald's first appeared on Gothamist, City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn has gone and called for a boycott of the place. Cause that'll solve the problem of people fighting outside!
Photos, Video: Million Hoodie March For Trayvon Martin Underway At Union Square
Less than 24 hours after the police forced OWS protesters, a large group of protesters has convened at Union Square once again. This time, it's to protest the senseless death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin and show support for his family. Martin was fatally shot by a gated community neighborhood watch volunteer, who thought the 18-year-old was "suspicious" and armed, but it turned out that Martin was only carrying Skittles and iced tea while on his way to his father's girlfriend's home.
Bloody Night In Brooklyn And Bronx Leaves Three Dead, Three Wounded
Two men are dead after fatal shootings in Crown Heights and downtown Brooklyn last night, and several others were left wounded by shootings and stabbings after a particularly violent night. Gunfire broke out just before 8 p.m. at the corner of Prospect Place and Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights. First responders found 18-year-old Daquan Weston bleeding from gunshot wounds to the lower torso, and rushed him to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced DOA. A second victim, age 15, was also shot in the leg and is listed in stable conditions. No arrests were made.
Videos: OWS Protester Suffered Seizure After Allegedly Violent NYPD Arrest
Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested last night as OWS briefly tried to reclaim Zuccotti Park on the six-month anniversary of the movement. Hundreds of people gathered in lower Manhattan around 11:30 p.m. last night (around 600-700, according to Ryan Devreaux; around 300 according to the Post) and attempted to put up tarp and tents—and they were met with intense police resistance. Among the dozens who were detained was Cecily McMillan, an OWS activist once profiled in Rolling Stone, who suffered a seizure after she was allegedly violently arrested by police. Watch two videos showing her arrest below.
Republicans Cool With Violence Against Women, As Long As They're Gay Or Immigrants
Democrats in the Senate are pushing to renew and expand the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which passed after a bipartisan effort in 1994. The only problem is that Republicans are gearing up to fight them tooth and nail about it: “I favor the Violence Against Women Act and have supported it at various points over the years, but there are matters put on that bill that almost seem to invite opposition,” said Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama. What sort of matters might those be? Helping immigrant victims claim battery and expanding protection to same-sex couples. Oh, and failing to put in safeguards to ensure that domestic violence grants are being well spent—because obviously we wouldn't want those grants going to help gay or immigrant women!
Chelsea Residents Blame Nightclub For Crime, Public Peeing
It was the shot heard 'round Chelsea last weekend when a clubgoer opened fire in the streets just outside of the popular West 28th Street nightclub Shadow around 4 a.m Saturday. The round, which blasted through a metal gate and destroyed a neighboring storefront, is the most recent bout of violence to occur in the area (in January, a man was stabbed and beaten over the head with a beer bottle there), prompting community members' complaints about noise, drug dealing, and other turbulence in the club's vicinity.
Teen Fatally Stabbed In Williamsburg Parking Lot Football Game
An impromptu football game in the parking lot of a Key Food in Williamsburg ended tragically for a Bronx teenager Saturday night. Edgar Soto, 17, was visiting the neighborhood with his mother to attend a friend's birthday party, and had joined some pals to toss a football around in the parking lot around 11:30 p.m. An NYPD spokesman tells us that he was fatally stabbed in the torso during a confrontation with another group who appeared in the parking lot, located on Grand Street between Lorimer and Leonard. Soto was pronounced dead on arrival at Woodhull hospital.
Video: Chainsaw Wielding Barfly Makes Case For Relaxed Smoking Laws
Sure second-hand smoke is bad for your health, but is it as bad as second-hand chainsaw? Last summer, Dean Dinnen was tossed out of a pub in Hull, England for smoking. Apparently he was cut to the quick, as Dinnen returned later with a chainsaw and began chasing after frightening barflies in a surreal scene that is equal parts Texas Chainsaw Massacre and NicoDerm CQ.
Flushing School Teaches Kids To Spell "GUN" And "ROB," Parents "MAD"
The parents of a 5-year-old girl are outraged over their daughter's homework assignment, which included spelling exercises for the words as "GUN" and "ROB." NY1 reports that the Flushing family is "demanding answers" after seeing their daughter's lesson when she came home from school today. "She showed me her homework, I look at it and I see the word gun on it. The first thing I thought was oh no no no, I don't want you reading it, I don't want you spelling it. I don't even want you looking at the picture. Trying to keep her away from from violence and she is being drawn to it in her homework, and that's not something I want her to learn," Lawrence Gillman told NY1.
Man Stabbed, Hit With Beer Bottle At Chelsea Nightclub
A man was stabbed and beaten over the head with a beer bottle at a Chelsea nightclub around 4 a.m. Saturday morning. According to DNAinfo, the incident occurred at The Shadow on West 28th Street, and the victim was transported to Bellevue with injuries that were not life-threatening. Authorities were called to the scene to control the crowd, but it's unclear what caused the altercation.
Video: Flyers Fans Beating Up Rangers Fans After Winter Classic
Philadelphia police have released a video of Flyers fans beating up Rangers fans after Monday's Winter Classic outside of Geno's Steaks! One of the victims was Neal Auricchico, an off-duty NJ cop and former Marine, whose father said, "He got banged up pretty badly. "Stitches in the one eye, and the other eye is pretty puffed up. He went for a CAT scan today, and we're waiting for the results on that."
Queens Teen Killed During Violent Thanksgiving Day
A Queens teen was fatally shot in the head during a violent 24-hour period between Thanksgiving and Black Friday. According to police, 18-year-old Eric Norman was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in the driveway of a home on Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway around 10 p.m. Thursday. According to the Daily News, there were seven other shootings during that 24-hour period.
Science Says There's A "Clear Link" Between Drinking Soda And Violence
Put. Down. The. Pepsi. That's what good old Science is telling teenagers to do, after a new study announced a "clear link" between drinking soda and acting violently.
Tonight: Occupy Wall Street Will March To City Hall At 9PM In Solidarity With Injured Oakland Protesters
Tonight at 9 p.m. the Occupy Wall Street movement is sponsoring a Solidarity March with the protesters in Oakland, California, from Zuccotti Park down to City Hall. Last night, police in Oakland fired tear gas, rubber bullets, flash-bangs and bean bag projectiles at OccupyOakland protesters at around 7:45 p.m. Despite authorities claiming [pdf] that there were no injuries to protesters, many photos and videos dispute that notion. According to the Guardian, 24-year-old protester Scott Olson is in critical condition with a fractured skull and brain swelling after being hit by a police projectile. Olson is a veteran of the Iraq War.
Gadhafi's Body Put In Freezer So His Death Can Be Further Investigated
As more and more graphic videos and photographs emerge showing Libyan dictator Moammer Gadhafi's last moments and corpse, his burial has been delayed as leaders are apparently arguing over how to handle the burial and as the United Nations has called for an investigation into his death. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said, "There seem to be four or five different versions of how he died. More details are needed to ascertain whether he was killed in the fighting or after his capture." Now, Gadhafi's body is in a meat locker (graphic image here).
Photos: International Occupy Wall Street Protests Include Riot In Rome, Julian Assange in London
Occupy Wall Street has gone global today, with 951 cities spread over 82 countries joining in on the anti-greed protests with marches and demonstrations in an effort to enact "Global Change." And already, things are getting crazy out there: thousands took to the streets in various European cities from Berlin to Madrid, Julian Assange galvanized the crowds in London, and there have been widespread reports of rioting in Rome. “I have no problem with capitalism. I have no problem with a market economy. But I find the way the financial system is functioning deeply unethical. We shouldn’t bail out the banks. We should bail out the people,” Berlin resident Herbert Haberl told the Times.
The New Yorker Admits To Troubling/Amusing Spike In Cartoon Body Count
Law & Order: Eustace Tilley Edition? The New Yorker's cartoon editor Robert Mankoff tackles the issue of crime in the weekly magazine's pages—as represented in its cartoons. Inspired by a review of Steven Pinker's book, The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Decreased (basically!), Mankoff writes, "I decided to investigate the Pinker hypothesis using New Yorker cartoons. I looked at the number of murders depicted, decade by decade, starting with the nineteen-thirties. To qualify as a murder, either there needed to be a dead body in the drawing or the imminent appearance of one."
Video: Witnesses Cackle As Subway Guitarist Is Jumped And Beaten
Last month, we saw disturbing video of a disoriented man rolling around on the L train tracks after falling off the platform in Brooklyn. There was a lot of debate over the actions—or rather, the inactions—of the videographers. But besides the fact that they chose to upload the video of the man-in-distress online in the first place, the thing that most irked us was when they documented themselves laughing about that situation. In the (albeit not perfectly clear) video below, two witnesses cackle gleefully as a guitarist is jumped on a 1 train by a group of people, before being shoved out at Canal Street.
Murdered High School Basketball Star May Have Been Targeted After All
Police now believe that the gunmen who shot and killed 18-year-old basketball standout Tayshana Murphy early Sunday morning in her Harlem housing complex intended to kill her because of a dispute with her brother. Originally, authorities believed that Murphy, who was shot in the head on the fourth floor of the Grant Houses around 4 a.m., was killed because she was wearing a sweatshirt that made her resemble another boy. Now, police are "looking into the possibility she was involved in an earlier assault," a source tells the Daily News. "It looks like they were aiming for her and the two people she was with."
Jews Upset Sharpton Invited To Speak At Crown Heights Riot Panel
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riot, which erupted after a 7-year-old black boy, Gavin Cato, was killed by a Hasidic driver and, three hours later, a 29-year-old Australian Orthodox Jewish scholar, Yankel Rosenbaum, was fatally stabbed. A Long Island rabbi invited a number of figures to speak at a panel this weekend, but one invitee—the Reverend Al Sharpton—has various Jewish groups, as well as Rosenbaum's relatives, up in arms.
Bill Bratton Hired As Unpaid Consultant To Scotland Yard
Former NYPD Police Commission Bill Bratton, who was hired under Mayor Giuliani and is widely credited with stemming the city's reputation for crime through the broken-window theory and Compstat, has been appointed as an unpaid "consultant" to Scotland Yard. Bratton was personally chosen by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who told Parliament that the UK "should be looking beyond our shores to learn the lesson from others," with regard to the widespread rioting that has gripped London in recent days. "He thanked me for accepting the engagement," Bratton told the Daily News, "I thanked him for the opportunity."
More Cops On Hand To Monitor Drinking, Violence At Tomorrow's Dominican Day Parade
At last year's Dominican Day Parade, a pregnant teenager was stabbed in the head and raucous street parties required police response ( including mace—see video below). So for tomorrow's parade, lawmakers and law enforcement officials are hoping for a more festive and less-violent day with an increased police presence. Also: They'd like people to not drink/be drunk, and stores that sell alcoholic drinks to close early. State Senator Adriano Espaillat said, "There were young people walking in the street with open containers of alcohol, many of them drunk... This behavior that we saw last year in Washington Heights is not descriptive of Dominican pride. We will not be embarrassed again."
Five Arrested At LES Melee Blame Violence On The Cops
The five people arrested after Tuesday night's melee outside Tammany Hall (which sent five cops were to the hospital) appeared in court yesterday to blame the violence on police. "Everyone was leaving the club peacefully," said Luis Pena, who is charged with assault, riot, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Then the police "came, rushed the door and just started throwing people out."
Video: Violent NYPD Response To Crowds Outside LES Nightclub
A high density of bars and nightclubs combined with manic out-of-town revelers and wary locals gives the Lower East Side an electricity all its own. It also provokes scenes like the one late last night at the intersection of Rivington and Orchard around midnight. Nightclub Tammany Hall was hosting an album release party for rap group Smif N Wessun.
Knife-Lovin' Patriots Sue City Over Gravity Knife Arrests
Not long after a man stabbed two men to death on the No. 2 train with a kitchen knife last year, the NYPD stepped up its enforcement of the city's illegal knife ban, and Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance got Paragon and Home Depot to stop selling illegal switchblades. Former Pulino's chef Nate Appleman was caught up in the crackdown, as was artist John Copeland, who was arrested in October for allegedly carrying a gravity knife in a belt clip as he walked home in the East Village. Now Copeland has filed a lawsuit to block these kinds of arrests, and he's teamed up with the Arizona-based group Knife Rights. Their slogan: Sharper Future™.
Firefighter Stabbed To Death Over Jersey Beer Pong Game
Beer pong can kill. A drinking game turned into a Memorial Day tragedy when a New Jersey volunteer firefighter yesterday was stabbed early yesterday morning. William Walker, 21, was killed at a Cherry Hill houseparty during a beer pong dispute. Maybe the SLA is right to be wary of the game?
Brooklyn Man Gunned Down Months After Receiving Masters
A Brooklyn man who had just received his masters degree was murdered in front of his childhood home in Bushwick early Sunday morning. 24-year-old Calvin Louis-Juste, who graduated from Cortland University last fall was "shot in the neck at close range around 1:45 a.m. as he walked from his family's Moffat Street house to meet up with friends," The Daily News reports.
Video: Man Goes Medieval On Rat On The Subway
This month, we've already seen two prime examples of how NYers react to rats on their subway: with nonchalance, or utter panic. Now rat-video king NYC The Blog is offering a third, much more primitive and cruel response to the mix: stomping on the rat. The video, taken by Vasily Zinchenko, is a vintage one made in 2008 on a D train near Grand Street station in Manhattan (but just uploaded yesterday to YouTube). Zinchenko's friend who was on the train with him, Uladzimir Taukachou, told NYC the Blog: "I saw how rat jumped in the train,. People were seating with their legs on seats. They were afraid that rat could bite them. Kids were so exited. It was fun." But be warned: a man in white shoes goes the ungentlemanly route, and furiously steps on the rat, seemingly killing it. Regardless, this is just further proof that it's the rats' city now, and we're just renting space in it.
Brooklyn Baby Shower Goes Bad
A baby shower ended in bloodshed early Sunday morning after a fight broke out in the party room atop the Bethel United Zion Church in Prospect Heights. The scuffle soon spilled out onto the street and a little after midnight at least three shots were fired, striking three male partygoers. A 22-year-old was shot in the leg, a 19-year-old was shot in the leg and buttocks, and an 18-year-old was shot in the leg and arm. All three were taken to the hospital and are in stable condition. It remains unclear what caused the altercation and no arrests have been made yet.
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