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BROOKLYN – New York courts institute a “cross-race identification” rule after a wrongfully convicted Brooklyn man serves seven years in prison, partially because witnesses misidentified the then-19-year-old. Otis Boone and Lavonda Allen Photo compliments of The Legal Aid Society.At his second trial, a jury found African-American Otis Boone, 27, not
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CLINTON HILL – The NYPD is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying four men who violently beat and robbed a 30-year-old man last week. At approximately 12:40am on Tuesday, March 12, four men followed the victim to the front of 957 Fulton Street near the corner of Washington Avenue,
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BEDFORD STUYVESANT — Police are looking for suspects involved in a shooting that resulted in a dead body behind Marcy Houses in Bedford Stuyvesant. Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] NYPD officers found Deshawn Smart, 47, after responding to
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerUPDATE: While the NYPD still has not released photos or video of the assailant, it seems it is now being investigated by the Hate Crimes Unit, though the cops won’t tell us when that switch happened. MIDWOOD – Umber Nisar usually drives everywhere. But, the weather was
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SUNSET PARK – A second body was discovered floating in the water by the Brooklyn Army Terminal over the weekend, just days after an unidentified man’s body was found in the vicinity. At approximately 7am on Saturday, March 16, police responded to a call of a woman spotted in the
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GOWANUS – A man was stabbed on the G train at the Smith-9th Street Subway Station this afternoon after intervening in a fight. According to cops, after a fight broke out inside the G train at around 3:55 p.m., a 48-year-old man intervened and ended up getting stabbed once
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Anthony Pandrella, an associate of the Gambino crime family that organizes crime activities in NYC, was indicted for allegedly shooting his friend of many years, throwing out the evidence, and stealing from the deceased man. On October 26, 2018, 59-year-old Pandrella from Brooklyn, met with his 78-year-old friend Vincent Zito
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SUNSET PARK – Police found a badly decomposed body floating in the water by the Brooklyn Army Terminal yesterday morning. Ferry docked at Brooklyn Army Terminal/Sunset Park (Photo: Bklyner)At approximately 11:15am on Wednesday, March 13, police responded to a call in the vicinity of 58th Street, near Pier
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GREENPOINT – Repugnant words and a swastika were drawn over the face of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on “The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: American Icon” book poster at a G Train subway stop. Yesterday, a woman tweeted the image, which included the words “Die” “Jew” and “Bitch” along with
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EAST NY – A man was struck and killed by a car as he was crossing the street. The driver did not care to stay at the scene, drove away, and abandoned the car a few blocks away. On Tuesday, March 12 just before midnight, a 51-year-old man was, what cops
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Police and firefighters swarmed the station after the man jumped in front of the train at Rockaway Avenue and Fulton Street. Todd Maisel/BklynerBROWNSVILLE – A man apparently committed suicide in front of a Brooklyn bound C train as it rode into the Rockaway Avenue station on Fulton Street in Brownsville
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Two police officers were injured Sunday evening after they became involved in a chase with an alleged stolen vehicle on Van Brunt Street in Red Hook, causing the police car to lose control and crash into two car and a rental truck. The thieves were nabbed nearby after a foot