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One year ago, parts of New York City felt out of control as crowds of looters were seen smashing storefront after storefront. The mayhem continued night after night from late May into June. At one point, there was even a so-called “looting dance party” on the streets of SoHo. The mobs seemingly pillaged at will. Many were caught on tape,...

A Shake Shack manager has filed a lawsuit against police unions and New York City police officers who claimed last year that they were deliberately poisoned by the burger chain’s employees.

A shooting in New York City took the life of a 41-year-old man and injured a 28-year-old woman outside a church Saturday afternoon, police said. Officers from the NYPD rushed to the Bronx scene where the two victims were shot outside a church on Prospect Avenue around 2:30 p.m. Police found Vaughn Flanders lying conscious but unresponsive with multiple gunshot…

A Brooklyn mother was arrested and charged with attempted murder on Saturday after police say she threw her two young children out the second-floor window of an apartment building before jumping out after them. Police rushed to the Brownsville building around 11:30 a.m. on Rockaway Parkway for reports of serious injuries. Dejhanny Jarrell, 24, is said to have thrown her…

The man suspected of opening fire in Times Square earlier in May, injuring three people including a 4-year-old girl, was returned to New York to face charges after fleeing to Florida with his girlfriend in the aftermath of the shooting.

The bill would change the police use-of-force law “from one of simple necessity to one of absolute last resort,” James’ office said in a press release.

As New York City attempts to recover from the pandemic, there’s another urgent epidemic that residents say must be addressed: gun violence. So far this year, there have been 448 reported gun-related incidents across the five boroughs that impacted 501 victims, according to the NYPD’s statistics. That’s nearly doubled the number of incidents reported the same time last year,...

The passenger faces federal charges for allegedly attacking a flight attendant several times aboard Sunday’s flight to NYC.

Police have arrested a 29-year-old Bronx man on hate crime charges in connection to a wave of damage left to Jewish houses of worship in the borough. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force held a briefing Saturday to announce the arrest of Jordan Burnette, accused of leaving behind a trail of broken glass and other damage from throwing rocks...

The search is on for a man police say deliberately drove his car into a school bus driver in a Friday afternoon violent encounter caught on camera.

The woman accused of drunk driving as she struck an NYPD highway officer said she was “sorry” that he’s dead. Jessica Beauvais was arraigned Tuesday in a Queens courtroom on vehicular manslaughter charges and she admitted that she had been drinking and smoking marijuana before she got into her car earlier that morning. She was driving down the Long...

An NYPD highway officer died after being hit by an alleged drunken driver as he investigated a crash scene on the Long Island Expressway early Tuesday, officials say. The Highway Unit officer, identified as 43-year-old Anastasios Tsakos, a 14-year veteran of the force, was at a scene in Clearview around 2 a.m. of a crash after a driver lost control…

Police said a 61-year-old Asian man, not yet identified, was thrown to the ground near 3rd Avenue and East 125th Street around 8:30 p.m. The suspect allegedly struck the man, then proceeded to repeatedly kick the victim in his head. Video tweeted out by the NYPD appears to show the moments the attacker stomped on the victim’s head. Police...

A former Bridgeport man accused of throwing a lit Molotov cocktail at police amid a series of violent traffic stops in Brooklyn on Saturday told authorities he intended to “hurt the police” that day, federal officials detailed in court documents released Monday. Federal prosecutors called Lionel Virgile, 44, a flight risk and a community danger in their request Monday for…

A traffic stop in Brooklyn turned violent Saturday morning when a driver pulled over for running a red light hurled a Molotov cocktail at police, the NYPD said.

A traffic stop in Brooklyn turned violent Saturday morning when a driver pulled over for running a red light hurled a Molotov cocktail at police, the NYPD said.

A man from Ohio has been arrested after being found with an unloaded semi-automatic rifle, ammunition and a gas mask in a bag, a senior law enforcement official tells News 4.

The NYPD was still looking for the gunman Sunday morning responsible for shooting a 12-year-old boy in the chest the night before. Citizen App video from the scene in Bed-Stuy shows the moments police responded to the Brooklyn neighborhood late Saturday night. Police say the child was walking down Malcolm X Boulevard around 10 p.m. when someone in a vehicle…

One person is dead and two others injured, including an innocent bystander, after two gunmen and several officers opened fire in a Bronx neighborhood Saturday evening, NYPD officials said. Police in the Concourse Village section of the Bronx heard the first shots fired around 6:30 p.m., NYPD Assistant Chief Kenneth Lehr said at a news conference hours later. Three uniformed…

Police released images on Saturday of a man wanted in New York City for allegedly yelling anti-Asian slurs and spitting at a mother and her three children on a subway in Times Square on Tuesday. The incident, under investigation as a hate crime, happened aboard a southbound 5 train around 2:30 p.m. as the train was heading toward the 42nd…