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2 New York City Men Cleared After Wrongful Convictions Axed
Two New York City men wrongfully convicted and jailed in the 1990s for murder had their sentences vacated in a Manhattan court on Monday. The cases were reinvestigated after it was found they were tied to the "Dirty 30" precinct in Harlem.
New Charge Unveiled In Jonathan Majors Case, Lawyer Calls Bias
A new charge in the harassment and abuse case against actor Jonathan Majors was unveiled on Tuesday. His lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, blasted the move by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, claiming that there was "racial bias" involved in the case. The post New Charge Unveiled In Jonathan Majors Case, Lawyer Calls Bias appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
GOP, Conservatives Scramble To Defend Donald Trump Ahead Of Potential Indictment
GOP officials and conservative pundits gathered to defend former president Donald Trump ahead of a potential indictment in New York. The post GOP, Conservatives Scramble To Defend Donald Trump Ahead Of Potential Indictment appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
About Time: NY District Attorney To Throw Out 188 Cases Tied To Dirty Cops
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: ALEX KENT / Getty The New York City criminal system is trying to right their wrongs. The District Attorney is set to throw out 188 cases tied to police misconduct. As spotted on Gothamist, District Attorney Alvin Bragg is on a mission to win back the trust of The Big Apple. This week he and his office announced that they will be vacating the almost 200 convictions that involved local police officers who were either corrupt, lied, falsified evidence or were involved in other types of wrongdoing. The vacaturs are part of an ongoing review of more than 1,100 cases connected to a list of 22 former NYPD officers convicted of crimes provided to the office in 2021 by public defender and advocacy groups. Bragg detailed this initiative in a formal statement. “Trus...
Shaun King Says Teen Daughter Was Struck By Car In Manhattan, In Recovery
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Screenshot / Instagram Shaun King and his family are rallied around the activist’s 19-year-old daughter after she was struck by a car in Manhattan. King said that his daughter suffered serious injuries, but hopes that she’ll make a full recovery. King shared the news via an Instagram post from the hospital where his daughter recovering with the following caption: Our daughter Kendi, who is 19, was hit by a car while she walking in Manhattan and suffered a brain injury. And several serious head and body injuries. I’ve been here in the ICU with her since yesterday morning. We have every reason to believe she will recover and she is receiving excellent medical care. The doctors and nurses and staff have been so kind and so thorough. Please pray for K...
Mad Maskless White Woman Caught On Video Calling Bakery Worker N-Word
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Screencap / IG While everyone across the nation and much of the world is almost certainly up to their limit in wearing masks, nothing should excuse the behavior of a Manhattan bakery patron. A woman, presumably white, called a clerk at the store the “n-word” while employing the “er” version after she was refused service for not donning a mask. As reported by CBS News New York, the woman was at the Davidovich Bakery inside the Essex Market on the Lower East Side of Manhattan over the weekend. A bystander captured the incident on their smartphone in where the woman, pushing a stroller and seemingly walking with other children, was refused service after security left the decision to serve the patron up to the clerk behind a partition. When the clerk decided ...
New York says good riddance to native son Donald Trump
Joyous New Yorkers poured into the streets Saturday after Democrat Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to win the White House, erupting in celebration as the business mogul and former star of The Apprentice was told: “You’re fired.” Revelers cheered across a city that has sparred for years with the president who rose to prominence in the New York real estate. A reliable Democratic stronghold, the US financial capital’s disdain for the Republican’s policies was no secret. In Manhattan residents yelled and clapped, some waving flags and others banging pots from their balconies as car horns punctuated the applause. Catherine Griffin cried tears of joy outside with one of her two kids, telling AFP: “I’m happy that Trump has gone from our lives, hopefully forever.” “Having a little normalcy back in...
Gold rises on renewed US stimulus hope, dollar falls
Spot gold rose 0.3 percent to $1,910.56 an ounce at 3:37pm, New York time, after falling as much as 0.5 percent. Gold rose on renewed optimism for a preelection aid package in the U.S., while the dollar fell to a one-week low. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a bill for a compromise stimulus package is being written as she awaits a key phone call with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said his chamber would take up a comprehensive coronavirus package if an accord is struck. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index headed for the third straight decline. Pelosi said in a Bloomberg Television interview that while there are areas where more work is required to get a compromise, she was pleased with the Trump administration’s latest position on coronavirus testing ...
Friday Morning #Blackout Hits Manhattan And Queens
Source: Busà Photography / Getty While blackouts tend to occur in Queens (where many residents have been in the dark since Tropical Storm Isaias came through earlier this week) or in other places across the nation, not so much in Manhattan. But this morning (August 7), parts of the latter lost power. UPDATE: A lot of Upper Manhattan — #HamiltonHeights #Harlem #MorningsideHeights #UpperWestSide is blacked out. No electricity from about 116th St. to 145th St. pic.twitter.com/QO2SqYXtkA — James Ford (@jamesfordtv) August 7, 2020 Gothamist reports that a “glitch” in electricity utility Con Edison’s transmission system knocked out the power to three of its networks. At about 5:15 am, early risers may have noticed that things had gone dark. Fortunately, the power came bac...
CCTV reveals Gokada founder’s ex-PA buying electric saw
Fresh facts have emerged that the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of Gokada founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fahim Saleh, bought an electric saw and some cleaning supplies seen at the scene of the incident. Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Closed Circuit Television showed 21-year-old Tyrese Haspil buying the electric saw suspected to have been used in the grisly murder. Manhattan prosecutors revealed the details in a criminal complaint filed against Haspil, who was arraigned on a second-degree murder charge on Saturday, according to The Wall Street Journal. The video surveillance from a hardware store showed Haspil purchasing the saw and cleaning supplies found at the seventh-floor apartment on the Lower East Side, according to the complaint. Haspil, a former personal ass...
Correction: Looters Did Not Steal $2M Worth Of Watches From A Rolex Store
Source: Rob Kim / Getty Don’t believe everything you see and hear during these times. One brazen story of the poor robbing from the rich seems to be all cap. As spotted on GQ a tale of a pair of modern day Robin Hoods made a big splash across social media on Monday, June 1. Initial reports alleged that two unidentified individuals ransacked a Rolex store in downtown Manhattan. One police officer who responded to the incident theorized that the two suspects might have hit a seven figure lick. “The Rolex store is empty. They stole like 2.4 million in Rolexes” he said live from the scene. But Gentleman’s Quarterly has investigated it further and the jack move merely resulted in just minor vandalism. First the location in question is not a Rolex store but a Watches of Switzerland – an authoriz...
