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NYPD Wrongfully Arrested Participants of Occupy The Bronx Festivities

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Superstar Quamallah & DeQawn -"Talkin' All That Jazz" Album Promo Video

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Monique Bingham - You.Me.World (Original Mix) - OFFICIAL BIGGASOUNDS VIDEO

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NYC Mayor to lay off 6,166 teachers

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Cop shooting of unarmed Bronx man is at least 2nd US case involving pistol-mounted flashlight

The shooting of an innocent, unarmed elderly Bronx man by a cop who was trying to turn on a pistol-mounted flashlight is at least the second accidental police shooting in the US involving that same flashlight model.
But unlike Saturday’s shooting of 76-year-old Jose Colon — who survived a cop’s bullet to the stomach — an unarmed Texas man died Oct. 13 under what reportedly were strikingly similar circumstances involving the Surefire X300 flashlight.
The family of that dead man, suspected drug dealer Michael Anthony Alcala, is now suing the city of Plano for negligence in the shooting, where a cop claimed he inadvertently fired instead of turning on the flashlight as intended.
A New York firearms expert today criticized the use of pistol-mounted flashlights, saying they complicate what is already a stressful situation for cops pointing guns.
"A handgun should be a handgun, and a flashlight should be a flashlight," said firearms instructor Kenneth Cooper, who was an expert witness for one of the NYPD officers acquitted for the 1999 shooting of unarmed Bronx man Amadou Diallou.
"When you put a flashlight on a weapon system, there are numerous things that you have to manipulate, and under stress, things are more difficult," Cooper said. "I don’t like flashlights on guns, I never did. I personally don’t see the necessity . . . a flashlight to me is an unnecessary hazard."
Derek McDonald, Surefire’s vice president of marketing, said the Plano shooting was the first time time the company had heard a claim that one of its flashlights played a role in a cop firing his gun accidentally until The Post notified him of the Colon case. McDonald also noted that Surefire has sold such products since the late 1980s.
"Our product is safe, has been proven safe," McDonald said. "Used in a safe manner, it doesn’t lead to accidents. It prevents misidentification and saves police lives."
Colon was shot during a drug raid early Saturday in his Soundview apartment when Emergency Services Officer Andrew McCormack tried to turn on the Surefire X300 flashlight mounted underneath the barrel of his Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol, and instead pulled the gun’s trigger, sources said.
The light is turned on by pushing one of two switches in front of the trigger guard.
Colon was unarmed and not charged with a crime. But cops busted his 41-year-old son, Alberto, for heroin possession.
The elderly Colon, who once worked for state Sen. Ruben Diaz as a supervisor in a home-attendant program, was recovering yesterday in Jacobi Hospital, where he had been visited Saturday by both Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Kelly had no immediate comment when asked whether the NYPD will continue using the weapon.
In the Texas case, an undercover narcotics police sergeant drew his pistol on drug suspect Alcala in a dark parking lot on Oct. 13, and tried to turn on his Surefire X300 flashlight on, according to a story in the Dallas Morning News.
But instead of turning on the light, the cop accidentally fired the gun, killing Alcala.
Plano police have said they don’t believe the flashlight was a problem

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GOLPIZA POR SER GAY! - Police Arrest 9th Suspect in Anti-gay Beatings

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NWS confirms over a dozen tornadoes across 4 states including 2 killer tornadoes

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'America's Most Wanted' woman nabbed in Bronx on lam for 15 years

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REMEMBER THE MOVEMENT! 365 Days of Marching-The Amadou Diallo Story Friday, February 26

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Preserving The History Of Hip-Hop

Craig Wilson grew up in the building where hip-hop was born back in 1973. Now,... more

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Yankee Stadium Deconstruction Update - 10/22/2009

You may remember how quickly Shea Stadium was taken apart. Well, they needed the space... more

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Yankee Stadia - Playoff Ready, Being Demolished - 10/6/2009

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"Possessed" Teen Stabs 3 Younger Siblings

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In Defense of Juanita Young

This a rally in response to the 43rd Precinct police again terrorized the family and neighbors of Bronx grandmother and activist awarded $10 million for the wrongful death of her son by NYPD and acquitted last year by a jury of bogus charges leveled against her by police who brutalized her in her own home three years ago.
According to one eyewitness about August 8th: A little after 11pm Saturday night, I was standing in front of Juanita's building when this all went down (Juanita was having a cookout in the backyard, but sitting out front with her kids, grandbabies, neighbors and friends). The 43rd precinct had been driving around the block all night (and all week, apparently), stopping and searching just about every male that was on that block (while I was there, one young man was stopped as he was coming out of the corner store with Reese's peanut butter cups in his hands). Over a dozen cops seemed to appear out of nowhere, broke the front door down, slammed JJ (Juanita's oldest son) up behind the door, and beat him on the head while cuffing him. This was all happening with kids and babies around (photos posted at http://nyc.indymedia.org/or/2009/08/106826.html I was told later that the cops went upstairs into Juanita's apartment, made everyone get down on the floor, and also arrested her daughters Saran and Naya, Saran's baby's father Tyrell, their cousin Jason, and family friends Jonathan and Mike. They were brought to the 43rd precinct According to those that [were released a few hours later], JJ is really bad off (I saw him throwing up when they were putting him into the car), with lumps on his head and he can't open his eyes because of the pepperspray. After many phone calls to the precinct from all over the country, JJ was eventually taken to a hospital. He is to be arraigned Monday morning in Bronx Criminal Court. Everyone else was released with a summons for disorderly conduct. Juanita Young and her family have had a long history of being targeted by the NYPD (see attached background fact sheet), especially the Bronxs 43rd Precinct. This is mainly because she has been a strong and relentless voice against police brutality since the killing of her son, 23-year old Malcolm Ferguson, by plainclothes cop Louis Rivera on March 1, 2000. While the DA and NYPD ruled Fergusons death as a justifiable homicide, a Bronx jury awarded Young $10 million in a wrongful death suit (more than her attorneys had asked for). Young is also strong in her support of other families whose loved ones have died at the hands of the law enforcement, joining with other families in Parents Against Police Brutality and through her work with The October 22 Coalition and The Justice Committee. This latest attack on her family is another attempt to intimidate Young through striking out at her loved ones in hopes of silencing this powerful voice against police brutality. For exclusive pictures of this abuse see link below http://nyc.indymedia.org/or/2009/08/106826.htmlThis a rally in response to the 43rd Precinct police again terrorized the family and... more

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A Black Superhero named Curly Clavis

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Yankees Finally Beat Red Sox

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Old Yankee Stadium Turns Green

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