Mayor Bill de Blasio said the police had enforced rules properly, but other officials expressed concern about tactics similar to unfair “stop and frisk” practices.Mounted police patrolling Corona Park in Flushing Meadows, Queens.Credit...Marian Carrasquero for The New York TimesPublished May 7, 2020Updated May 8, 2020, 4:47 a.m. ETA police officer enforcing social-distancing rules broke up…
Arrests have been made in the case of an unarmed black man who was fatally shot while jogging through a Glynn County neighborhood in Georgia earlier this year.On Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said Gregory McMichaels, a former law enforcement official, and his son, Travis McMichaels, were arrested in connection with the February…
A nurse for a New York City Hospital was arrested Thursday after allegedly stealing a dying coronavirus patient’s credit card and using it for gas and groceries.Danielle Conti, 43, is facing charges of grand larceny, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in connection with the case. Conti allegedly took the credit card from…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Authorities announced the arrest of a man in connection with the drive-by shooting at the Louisiana estate of “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson.Daniel King Jr. was booked into a correctional center after two homes in West Monroe were struck by gunfire on Friday afternoon,…
New York Daily News | Apr 18, 2020 | 12:43 PM Protester Jordan Mazurek, 28, who cemented his hands in two 55-gallon plastic drums filled with concrete in the driveway of the governor's mansion, sits on the pavement while his vitals are checked by first responders on Friday.(Alicia Devine/AP) A man protesting Florida’s handling of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…