Tag: U.S. Attorney’s Office

Photographs included in the Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief show abuses by the New York Police Department and examples of injuries suffered by some of the participants in the George Floyd-inspired anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests of 2020. Office of the New York State Attorney General (Fair Use)

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss mum as State Attorney General Letitia James seizes moral authority to sue the NYPD over Constitutional rights violations

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss is in hiding following having been trashed in Letitia James’ Federal lawsuit for apparently countenancing NYPD’s Constitutional rights abuses.

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The New York City Department of Investigation has released a report that is critical of the NYPD's actions that led to Constitutional rights violations during the George Floyd protests. NYCDOI (Fair Use)

After NYC Department of Investigation issues blistering report about NYPD Constitutional rights violations, Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss remains mum about police accountability

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss remains mum after DOI issued a critical report about Consitutional rights violations by NYPD during George Floyd protests.

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The police were the subject of complaints of using harsh arrest tactics against anti-facism protesters, whilst making no arrests of pro-Trump supporters during disruptive demonstrations on Sunday. Source : Marni Halasa

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss won’t say how long she will continue to ignore videos allegedly showing NYPD police brutality and Constitutional rights violations

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss won’t say how much longer she will ignore videos allegedly showing NYPD brutality and misconduct.

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A report in the New York Times suggestions that scandals at the New York City Board of Elections is undermining confidence in the troubled Agency, even as more and more controversies are triggering allegations of voter suppression. Progress New York/File Photograph

Acting U.S. Attorney mum, as reports raise the renewed spectre of voter suppression by the New York City Board of Elections

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss is keeping quiet after allegations were made of voter suppression by the New York City Board of Elections.

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A protester taken into custody by NYPD during the 29 Aug 2004 protest against the Republican National Convention in New York City. Source : Progress New York/Archive Photograph

At SDNY, decades of looking the other way as commended partner NYPD continue to engage in a pattern or practise of violations of Constitutional and civil rights

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York countenances systemic violations of Constitutional and civil rights by the New York Police Department.

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As the intervention by Federal law enforcement agents in Portland, Oregon, triggered what the A.C.L.U. deemed a "Constitutional crisis," U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14) made headlines by playing the victim card in response to the use of a sexist pejorative by a Republican Congressman. C-Span via YouTube (Screen Shot) (Fair Use)

AOC mum as Jimmy Dore rips into the Squad for enabling Nancy Pelosi to fully-fund Trump’s unconstitutional use of Federal Agents against protesters in Portland

Political commentator Jimmy Dore criticised U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for keeping mum as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi supported funding of DHS Agents’ controversial tactics against Portland protesters.

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At the P.S. 33 elementary school in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, a poll supervisor attended to a registered voter, who was twice denied a ballot during the June 23 Democratic Part primary election. The voter waited over 11 hours to be able to cast an affidavit ballot due to missing pages for local elections and wrong information about the voter's party affiliation. Progress New York

As the Board of Elections tosses absentee ballots, a signaling that the Feds may countenance voter disenfranchisement

As the New York City Board of Elections is reportedly disqualifying a large number of absentee ballots cast, the U.S. Attorney’s Office remains mum.

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Then U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman at a 2019 press conference announcing the arrest of Michael Avenatti for extortion. U.S. Attorney General removed U.S. Attorney Berman from his post on orders of President Donald Trump. Screenshot of YouTube video : Source : U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York (Fair Use)

After U.S. Attorney General William Barr met with NYPD officials, chaos reigns as U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman was fired amidst ‘tensions’ with White House and City Hall

Geoffrey Berman’s removal as U.S. Attorney revealed tensions with Mayor Bill de Blasio — but no indication of any accountability at the NYPD over abuses.

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NYPD officers were prepared to make mass arrests during the Gays Against Bush march on 29 Aug. 2004 in Union Square. During the 2004 Republican National Convention, the NYPD made unlawful arrests of journalists, legal observers, and others -- violations of civil liberties repeated again in 2012 and 2020, without consequence. Progress New York/File Photograph

Top Federal attorney in charge of enforcing First Amendment rights and civil liberties ducks responsibility over deliberate NYPD arrests of legal observers

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman is ducking responsibility over NYPD violations of civil liberties following the deliberate arrests of legal observers at a Bronx protest. Past arrests of legal observers have been ruled unlawful by Federal Courts.

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In 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, leading to a spill of an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil. Over the years, the fossil fuel industry and the U.S. Military have laid waste to the environment. Notwithstanding, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14) believes that the first target of her green "New Deal" program to stop climate change should be ... public housing residents. NOAA

AOC’s green New Deal for public housing ignores heat outages, Mayor’s plan for demolition and RAD conversion, and makes NYCHA tenants wait years for repairs

The Green New Deal for public housing proposed by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ignores the public health emergency taking place now at the New York City Housing Authority.

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