
NYPD and other law enforcement officers, both active and retired, who attended NYPD Detective’s Wenjian Liu’s funeral on Sunday in Brooklyn turned their backs when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered his remarks.
by Kerry Picket4 Jan 2015, 10:21 AM PST0

New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has told members of the NYPD not to turn their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio again at the funeral for Wenjian Liu on Sunday.
by Kerry Picket2 Jan 2015, 8:18 PM PST0

Anti-police protesters in New York City hoping to disrupt the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square didn’t quite make it that far Wednesday night.
by Kerry Picket31 Dec 2014, 10:43 PM PST0

During the meetings Mayor Bill de Blasio had with five different New York City police unions on Tuesday, the mayor’s senior aides called top Democratic New York lawmakers on the city and state levels. They urged lawmakers to slam the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch and other officers for turning their backs on the mayor, DNAinfo reported.
by Kerry Picket30 Dec 2014, 6:12 PM PST0

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may not have thought he was going to get a terribly warm reception at Monday’s NYPD graduation ceremony of incoming rookies, but he probably was not expecting to get booed and heckled during his remarks to the graduating class.
by Kerry Picket29 Dec 2014, 5:04 PM PST0

Anti-police protesters plan to disrupt New Year’s Eve celebrations, calling upon activists to agitate in major cities “because business as usual in Amerikkka includes wanton police murder of Black people.”
by Kerry Picket28 Dec 2014, 3:11 PM PST0

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will attend and deliver remarks at the funeral of slain NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos Saturday, despite calls by some in law enforcement to stay away.
by Kerry Picket26 Dec 2014, 7:51 PM PST0

Breitbart News learned from an NYPD source that officers made no arrests Tuesday night, despite bottles being hurled at police and protesters committing other violations of the law. That’s how Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton wanted it,
by Kerry Picket24 Dec 2014, 2:23 PM PST0

New York’s Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) tweeted out that the 81st precinct house received information from a confidential informant that a credible attack was being planned by the Black Guerrilla Family. The alleged plan would have attackers “storm” the 79th
by Kerry Picket23 Dec 2014, 9:29 PM PST0

New York State Republican Party leaders are urging Congressman Michael Grimm (R-NY) to resign from office, Breitbart News has learned. “We are looking for Grimm to step down for the good of the party and the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn,” they said. Grimm pleaded guilty today to a felony tax charge of a public corruption case in New York.
by Kerry Picket23 Dec 2014, 11:55 AM PST0

Protesters in New York City plan to “shut down” 5th Avenue, a main shopping area in Manhattan, tonight. The call to do so happens after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio asked for any protests to stop until both recently murdered NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu are buried this weekend.
by Kerry Picket23 Dec 2014, 11:39 AM PST0

“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!” stated Chuck Canterbury, president of the Fraternal Order of Police—the world’s largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers—in a statement released Sunday addressing Saturday’s execution-style murders of NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. Calling Ramos’ and
by Kerry Picket22 Dec 2014, 5:59 PM PST0

According to an Instagram screenshot, Brinsley was tracking two officers who were almost 4 miles away from him in Staten Island at 10:44 PM EST since the beginning of December. He thanks a friend of his on Instagram for pointing out the app is not “updated in real time” so it’s not that “reliable.”
by Kerry Picket22 Dec 2014, 2:13 PM PST0

Retired NYPD members are discussing ways to keep New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio away from the funerals of recently-murdered NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. One tactic, suggested in a popular law enforcement web forum, instructed officers to
by Kerry Picket21 Dec 2014, 4:18 PM PST0

Movie posters of the recently pulled Sony Pictures film The Interview, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, are currently hot sellers on eBay. Originals of the movie poster are selling for $1,000, while reproductions of the original poster can cost
by Kerry Picket19 Dec 2014, 12:43 PM PST0

The Federal Communication Commission is rejecting a petition to deny the license renewal of radio station WWXX-FM, owned by Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, over its broadcast of the term “Redskins.” John Banzhaf filed the the challenge to the station’s
by Kerry Picket18 Dec 2014, 2:47 PM PST0

The first talks the Obama administration held with Havana was in July of 2009 in New York City, when CubaNews reported the U.S. is “likely to be anxious to ask Cuban officials for help in curbing a rise in undocumented
by Kerry Picket18 Dec 2014, 1:34 PM PST0

Republican Martha McSally beat Democratic incumbent Rep. Ron Barber (D-AZ) on Wednesday after an election recount confirmed the GOP’er had a 167 vote edge over Barber. According to the AP, the GOP will now have the largest majority ever, with
by Kerry Picket17 Dec 2014, 10:19 AM PST0

Not to be outdone by the congressional 1,603 page Cromnibus spending bill, government agencies in Washington added almost as many pages to the Federal Register with new regulations and rules last week alone. The D.C. watchdog organization the Competitive Enterprise
by Kerry Picket16 Dec 2014, 5:00 AM PST0

Zacarias Moussaoui, also known as the “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked a South Florida federal judge Wednesday for a transfer to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Associated Press reported. Moussaoui is serving a life sentence
by Kerry Picket10 Dec 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave remarks at his office’s annual Christmas party Monday night at the NRSC, and according to an attendee, McConnell said that people overestimate what Republicans can do even though the GOP will have majorities
by Kerry Picket9 Dec 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

In the wake of Tuesday’s release of the CIA memo detailing Bush-era interrogators’ methods that extracted information from enemy combatants, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Breitbart News the Obama administration is mirandizing terrorists that the U.S. military is capturing on
by Kerry Picket9 Dec 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Gangs appear to have grown more politically emboldened this past year, as protests have sprouted in response to police shootings of young black males. Gangs organizing with local politicians are not new, as some will point to New York’s Tammany
by Kerry Picket8 Dec 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Dorian Johnson–the witness who originally told police that 18-year-old Ferguson, MO resident Mike Brown had his hands up and pled with then-Officer Darren Wilson “Don’t shoot”–snagged a temporary position, that pays around $8.50 an hour, working for the city of
by Kerry Picket8 Dec 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Majorities are not lasting long as they used to and as of Saturday night’s elections, Barack Obama has just surpassed Harry S. Truman as the U.S. president who presided over the most midterm election defeats in his own party over
by Kerry Picket7 Dec 2014, 6:55 AM PST0