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A Black New York City police officer was berated by activists Saturday, as one woman accused the officer of being a slave catcher, while the police force stood outside a building that had been reportedly barricaded by protesters.
Fox News could not immediately confirm why activists had locked themselves in the Brooklyn building, but New York Police Department (NYPD) officers were met with a crowd of protesters who grew aggressive. You’re named after a slave catcher. You have a slave catcher s last name, and you’re slave catcher, one Black woman, yelled at the officer while another woman accused him of working for the KKK.
Aside from being the past participle of wake, for decades, it meant conscious and aware – but the slang word has come to represent an embrace of progressive activism, as well.
But I was angry that he was wearing a police uniform while doing it because it was gonna make my job and the jobs of police officers across the country a whole lot harder, Sanders said.
Chauvin, who is white, was convicted last month of murder and three other fired officers still face trial. Though for an entire year before justice was served, protesters took to the streets in New York City to call for accountability. While the majority of the gatherings were peaceful, some violence erupted between cops and demonstrators, and several incidents of excessive force by the NYPD prompted an investigation from the state s attorney general.
Borough faith leaders get vaccinated to set an example, help dispel myths and reduce hesitancy
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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 file photo, Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool. File)AP
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Faith leaders on Staten Island have been making examples of themselves by getting vaccinated, and sharing it publicly, to help dispel myths and address vaccine hesitancy in their communities.