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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department is defending itself in a federal civil rights lawsuit over its surveillance of Muslims. It says in a new court filing that nothing it has done violated surveillance guidelines imposed by a federal judge in a previous case. Tweet This Post
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Civil rights lawyers: NYPD spying violates rules
Posted by admin on February 4th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The New York Police Department's focus on Muslims has renewed the political surveillance of the 1960s and '70s that was banned under a landmark legal ruling, according to a new court filing by civil rights lawyers. They are seeking an injunction against further surveillance of Muslims without evidence of crimes and a [...]
Informant: NYPD paid me to ‘bait’ Muslims
Posted by admin on October 23rd, 2012
A paid informant for the New York Police Department says he was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying bad things. Tweet This Post
American Voices: NYPD Criticized For Shooting Amid Crowds
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2012
After wounding nine bystanders while killing a gunman outside the Empire State Building Friday and an earlier incident in which a knife-wielding man near Times Square was fatally shot, New York police face scrutiny over their protocol for opening fire in … Tweet This Post
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Tags: American, amid, criticized, Crowds, NYPD, Shooting, Voices 
No Comments »‘What?’ Confused 911 caller outs NYPD spying in NJ
Posted by admin on July 25th, 2012
It’s an audiotape the New York Police Department hoped you would never hear. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Christie Slams NYPD
Posted by admin on March 1st, 2012
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) ripped into the New York Police Department for spying on New Jersey Muslims, saying he doesn’t know if the actions were “born out of arrogance, or out of paranoia, or out of both,” the Newark Star Ledger reports. Tweet This Post
Newark mayor: NYPD misled us on Muslim spying
Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2012
The mayor and police director of New Jersey’s largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark’s Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it. Tweet This Post
NYPD built secret files on NJ, Long Island mosques
Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2012
Americans living and working in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city’s mayor says he was kept in the dark. Tweet This Post
Open Thread for Night Owls: NYPD doesn’t confine spying to its home turf
Posted by admin on February 20th, 2012
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Occupy Wall Street: Video of legal observer run over by NYPD scooter
Posted by admin on October 14th, 2011
What follows is a disturbing video of a legal observer for the National Lawyers Guild being run over by a police scooter at the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City this morning. The observer was arrested and hospitalized. Tweet This Post
