Democratic primary debate for the 14th Congressional District, which covers part of queens in the bronx. As you can see on the map, this stretches several neighborhoods including Jackson Heights and was story. The seat is currently held by alexandria a convio cortez we also invite some of the leading candidates challenging her to this debate. Tonight were joined by Michelle Caruso cabrera and Community Leader and activists badrun khan. You can see the full debate on nyone. Com we are taping this on thursday, june 4. Now on to the opening statement. This was determined by a random drawing. Michelle Caruso Cabrera will go first. Good evening. Good evening. These are troubling times for the country. We need to come together as we grapple with the murder of george floyd and the impact it has had. We need unity. The choice the voters face could not be more clear. I am about unity and my opponent is about divisiveness and polarization. She was the only democrat to vote against 75 million for
The four charges against Baltimore Police officer william porter. We have live pictures from baltimore outside the courthouse. Police in riot gear are standing by for two hours. A few moments ago the Baltimore Mayor stephanie rawlingsblake and her Police Commissioner urging calm. The Police Officer faced charges in the death of freddie gray. He was arrested in april. Officers put him into a police van. Prosecutors said officer porter did not secure gray with a seatbelt in the back of the van. And that porter didnt call for medical assistance when gray asked for it. 25yearold gray suffered a broken neck in the van and later died. The defense maintained that officer porter told his supervisor that gray needed to go to a hospital and witnesses testified he acted as any reasonable officer would. Freddie grays death set off widespread protests and vandalism in baltimore. Community leaders saying today they are disappointed by the mistrial. So this is sad for the community because the commun
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A year after New York City became the center of the global Covid-19 outbreak, the neighborhood considered at the time to be the âepicenter of the epicenterâ of the pandemic remains in crisis â laying bare many of the economic fault lines exposed by the coronavirus.
Corona, Queens, a welcoming enclave for many of the cityâs undocumented immigrants and home to many of the âessentialâ workers who kept New York running during the pandemicâs worst days, has had the highest number of infections and deaths in the city â and now has one of the lowest percentages of people vaccinated.
‘We don’t get help from anywhere’: Covid exposes inequality in crisis-hit New York neighborhood Amanda Holpuch in New York
A year after New York City became the center of the global Covid-19 outbreak, the neighborhood considered at the time to be the “epicenter of the epicenter” of the pandemic remains in crisis – laying bare many of the economic fault lines exposed by the coronavirus.
Corona, Queens, a welcoming enclave for many of the city’s undocumented immigrants and home to many of the “essential” workers who kept New York running during the pandemic’s worst days, has had the highest number of infections and deaths in the city – and now has one of the lowest percentages of people vaccinated.
NYPD Enlists Volunteers For Citywide Graffiti Cleanup Initiative
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) The NYPD hit the streets Saturday to kick off a new campaign to combat a big rise in graffiti.
The cleanup involves off-duty officers, volunteers and a lot of paint.
Getting the big job rolling was NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, taking what was a graffiti-covered supermarket building in Bushwick from marred and marked up to bright and bare.
Among the volunteer painters were officers, participating on their own time, and very young helpers.
“The best thing is all the little kids picking up the brushes, community members, businesses donating and interspersed with the men and women of the police department,” Shea said.