The Occupy City Hall protester, whose arrest by plainclothes police officers sparked fury between police and protesters, was captured with orange cameras tearing up New York police cameras by Post photographers and the lens of the police officers. The photos and video show Nikki Stone, 18, standing at a crosswalk …
Read More »Donations from GoFundMe for Nikki Stone’s surge after his arrest by NYPD
Online donations for protester Nikki Stone came Wednesday after her controversial arrest by New York police, as her mother revealed that the teenager is a transgender woman who prefers the name “Stickers.” A GoFundMe page titled “Housing for Stickers” was created Saturday to raise $ 15,000 for Stone, “who has …
Read More »NYPD should have been more ‘responsive’ in protest arrest
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo found something in common Wednesday when they both reported to New York Police for a now-viral video showing police officers picking up protesters mid-rally in an unmarked pickup truck by destroy the police equipment near the City Hall park. “The video was …
Read More »Ocasio-Cortez demands accountability over viral video of unmarked NYPD ‘snatch’ protester
Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.) criticized the New York Police Department (NYPD) early Wednesday after the NYPD confirmed Tuesday night that it had arrested a protester in an unmarked van. “This is not a drill. There is no excuse for snatching women from the streets and throwing them in unmarked trucks,” …
Read More »Chris Hayes called by an NBC colleague for describing the NYPD arrest as “kidnapping”
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes sparked an NBC News colleague’s rejection by calling an arrest by undercover New York Police Department (NYPD) officers a “kidnapping.” “This is … kidnapping,” the primetime host of “All In” wrote to his more than 2.1 million Twitter followers Tuesday night, referring to the video that captured …
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