Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Police Brutality

Riders headed over the Willis Avenue Bridge. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

SEE IT! The Street Riders’ Latest Mass Cycle Protest — ‘Independence NOT’

By Streetsblog | Jul 5, 2020 | No Comments

Streetfilms' auteur Clarence Eckerson Jr. participated — and documented — Saturday night's latest Street Riders NYC ride, dubbed "Independence Not," to highlight the pernicious history of America's tainted Fourth of July holiday.

Mayor to Streetsblog: No, I Have Not Fired Any Bad Cops Yet

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 2, 2020 | No Comments

Mayor de Blasio on Thursday said that no bad cops had yet been fired since he promised, almost exactly a month ago to fire "anybody who should not be a police officer."

Artists paint a "Black Lives Matter" mural on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, in front of Restoration Plaza. Photo: NYC Mayor's Office

Op-Ed: Making Black Lives Matter in Street Safety

By Tracey Capers | Jul 1, 2020 | No Comments

Our racial-equity lens must foster real policies that can be regularly evaluated and measured.

This is the truck whose driver is being sought.

SEE IT: Driver Hurls Firecrackers At Black Lives Matter Protesters

By Julianne Cuba | Jun 29, 2020 | No Comments

“Police were right there, they saw this happening and didn’t come up the ramp to do anything about it,” said one witness.

The new face of the NYPD. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

It’s Official: NYPD Just Stole Streets by Station Houses

By Eve Kessler | Jun 18, 2020 | No Comments

Trottenberg cops to the fact that security agency stole the public right of way — but neither she nor the mayor offer any remedy.

Police using their bicycles as weapons against protesters in Union Square last year. File photo

Trek Bicycles Declines To Divest From NYPD Despite ‘Abhorrent’ Use of Bikes Against Protesters

By Julianne Cuba | Jun 10, 2020 | No Comments

The company that sells bicycles to the NYPD has refused activists' demands that it divest from its relationship with a brutal department.

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