Defense attorneys alleged police incompetency during closing arguments for an evidentiary hearing Wednesday for Angelo Colon-Ortiz, the man charged in the 2016 killing of Vanessa Marcotte.
Fully bilingual, no voiceovers: How one podcast centers the Puerto Rican experience
Every aspect of La Brega, from the scripts to the sound design to the original music and illustrations by Puerto Rican artists, was produced in a way that would speak to a Puerto Rican audience.
By Hanaa’ Tameez@hanaatameez March 11, 2021, 10:38 a.m.
March 11, 2021, 10:38 a.m.
How much do you really know about Puerto Rico?
The island, an unincorporated territory of the United States since 1898, often makes it into mainstream, English-language news in a way that’s removed from its people. Stories focus on the likelihood of a statehood bill passing, the island’s debt crisis, or natural disasters. The decisions about those things, due to Puerto Rico’s status as neither a sovereign nation or a state, are made more than 1,500 miles away from the island, in Washington D.C.
killed in just the last 11 months. the slain cop s fellow officers could be seen saluting his ambulance as it passed by them outside the hospital. the suspect, tyrone howard, was shot in the leg during the gunfight. he s in police custody. here we reaction, sheriff david clarke, nypd detective bo dietl. you got blue lives matter on your you re wearing a thing here. here s my problem in all this. i don t think we ll see people protesting about another cop gunned down. i don t think we re going to have people out on the streets carrying on. i don t think president obama s going to go out and make a big deal about this. why the double standard? we had four cops killed in new york city in the last year. i want to give the less than a year. breakdown, one asian, one puerto rican spanish, one black, one white. they re trying to call it s racism, the cops are all racists. first of all, we have one of the most diverse police departments in the country here in new york.