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Activists Decry “Show of Force and Violence” at Brooklyn Museum Protest
The museum acknowledged that “the police brutality that took place was devastating” but said it did not call the NYPD.
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Now on View: NYC’s Bloated Police Budget
An exhibition organized by the New York Civil Liberties Union harnesses the power of art to illustrate the disastrous effects of over-policing.
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Massive NYC Gallery Opening Draws Crowds and Cops in "Fuck-You" to Landlords
The artist-run East Village gallery O'Flaherty's exhibited all 700+ artists who submitted work for its final show.
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MoMA Renews NYPD Contract, Canceled During BLM Protests, After Stabbing Incident
The decision hits a sensitive nerve for workers who asked the museum to end its association with the NYPD after the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020.
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Photographer Arrested by NYPD While Covering Anti-Trump Demonstration
Chae Kihn, an independent New York photographer, is seen tackled to the ground by police in video footage taken at the scene.
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Trump Supporters Rallied on Steps of National Museum of the American Indian
A group of approximately 70 Trump supporters marched from City Hall to the Museum of the American Indian in Lower Manhattan, where they unfurled banners and chanted “Back the Blue.”
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NYPD Proposes Stricter Regulations on Press Credentials
The proposal would expand the authority of officers to remove credentials from journalists and bar them from crossing police lines to cover news stories.
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Protesters Demand NYPD Drop Graffiti Charges Against 67-Year-Old Journalist
The protesters demand the NYPD expunge Jill Nelson's record and to cancel her summons for a court appearance in August. Last month, she was arrested and detained for hours after writing “Trump=Plague” in washable pink chalk in uptown Manhattan.
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Journalist Arrested in Manhattan for Writing “Trump=Plague” in Chalk
“I frankly feel, as an African American woman and a person of color, that it’s open season on us in every way,” says Jill Nelson, a 67-year-old writer who was kept in a cell for more than five hours.
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Who’s Behind the Media Campaign Against a Decolonize This Place Organizer?
According to the MTL+ collective, articles have discredited their MTA actions and reduced one of its members "to the figurehead of a ‘violent’ Palestinian mastermind.”
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Photojournalist Arrested by NYPD While Filming Police Officers
In video footage captured by his friend, Amr Alfiky loudly and clearly repeats that he is a journalist and offers to show his press credentials while a group of police push him against a car and handcuff him.
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Artist Nan Goldin Arrested in Protest Outside Governor Cuomo's Office in NYC
The activists are calling on the governor to establish overdose prevention centers to combat the growing opioid epidemic.