Fervently chanting “Amadou! Amadou!” a large crowd of Bronx residents, activists, lawmakers, and clergy joined family members of both the late Amadou Balio Diallo and other young, Black men killed by police in the Soundview section of The Bronx on Saturday, Feb. 3, for a vigil marking the 25th anniversary of Diallo's death. According to police and media reports at the time, Diallo, a Muslim Guinean, died after he was shot 19 times by police on Wheeler Avenue in Soundview shortly after midnight on Feb. 4, 1999. He was unarmed and aged 23.
NEW YORK — Council Speaker Adrienne Adams took aim at New York’s skyrocketing costs of living in her annual State of the City address Wednesday and floated a handful of proposals she argued will help turn the tide on the problematic trend. The speaker, whose Democratic Council majority has clashed intensely with Mayor Eric Adams on policy and budgetary matters in recent months, did not .
Assaults against New York Police Department officers have reached unprecedented levels, fueled by anti-cop rhetoric and woke policies that have emboldened criminals, experts told the New York Post Sunday.Within the first nine months of 2023, 4,077 police officers in New York City were attacked and i.
City cops are getting beaten at a record-setting pace fueled by radical protests, an influx of criminal migrants, bail reform, anti-cop rhetoric and soft-on-crime prosecutors.