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NYPD Stop and Frisk Trial: Week Number Three Completed

Dominic Carter | Posted 06.05.2013 | Impact
Read More: Nypd Trial, Police Deputy Inspector Mauriello, Ray Kelly, Al Sharpton, Eric Adams, Stop and Frisk Trial, Nypd Stop and Frisk, Jeffrey Fagan, Nyc, Impact News
Dominic Carter

It's not pleasant listening to secret recordings of whistle-blowers where commanders are heard on tape, demanding numbers and results at all costs.

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2 Fatally Stabbed, 2 Shot After West Indian Day Parade

Posted 09.04.2012 | New York
Read More: Nypd, Gabriel Hernandez, Ny News, West Indian Day Parade, Leandre Mallinckrodt, West Indian Day Parade 2012, West-Indian-American-Day-Parade, Eric Adams, New York News, West Indian Day Parade Nypd, Video, New York News

Violence erupted in Brooklyn after an otherwise peaceful, jubilant, and colorful West Indian Day Parade Monday. At 6:30PM, a dispute between two m...

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Brooklyn DA Trumped Up Hate Crime Charges

Eliyahu Federman | Posted 08.29.2012 | Crime
Read More: Hate Crimes, Charles Hynes, Racism, Eric Adams, Yitzchak Shuchat, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Crown Heights Riots, Andrew Charles, Crime News
Eliyahu Federman

There is no parallel between the Shuchat assault and racial tensions almost two decades earlier. Besides, you can't use history to try to prove an individual's intent in a specific isolated case -- otherwise one could claim racial motive in any white-on-black crime.

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LOOK: NY Post's Front Page Calls Trayvon Supporters 'Race Hustlers'

Posted 03.27.2012 | New York
Read More: Al Sharpton, George Zimmerman, CL Bryant, Ny News, Trayvon Martin Killing, Trayvon Martin, Bill Perkins, Eric Adams, Jesse Jackson, Kevin Parker, Jumaane Williams, New York News, New York News

The New York Post front page Tuesday insinuates that three black New York lawmakers (Senators Kevin Parker, Bill Perkins, and Eric Adams) wearing hood...

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WATCH: Two Leiby Kletzky Tributes In Brooklyn

Posted 09.24.2011 | New York
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Two Brooklyn communities this week held tributes for Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year old Brooklyn boy who was kidnapped and brutally murdered earlier this m...

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Assemblyman Proposes Legislation To Prevent More 'Garbage' Babies

Bed-Stuy, NY Patch | Paul Leonard | Email the Author | 6:00am | Posted 07.27.2011 | New York
Read More: Child-Abandonment, Brooklyn, Ny News, Fort Greene, Hakeem Jeffries, Eric Adams, New York News, Ralph-Mcdaniels, Charles Hynes, Laquasia Wright, New York News

Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and District Attorney Charles Hynes joined law enforcement representatives Thursday morning to introduce a bill in Albany ...

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WATCH: State Senator Goes Undercover To Buy Guns

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Eric Adams, Gun Laws, New York Gun Laws, State Senator Eric Adams, High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines, Senator Eric Adams, Ny News, New York News

A Daily News video shows it's surprisingly easy to buy high-capacity gun clips, like the ones used by Jared Loughner, in New York state (see video bel...

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"Sagging" Not A Crime, Rules Judge

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Video, Sagging Ticket, Julio Martinez, Saggy Pants Crime, Stop the Sag, Sagging, Eric Adams, Underwear Ticket, Saggy Pants, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) - Wearing saggy pants is not a crime, just foolish. That's how a New York City judge ruled in throwing out a summons issued to a man we...

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Crack Attack!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Youth, Edward VI, Style, Codpiece, England, Bill Cosby, Eric Adams, Sagging Pants, Fashion, Henri III, Baggies, Henry VIII, Lady GaGa, Alexander McQueen, Homoeriticism, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Like sagging baggies, codpieces were a highly aggressive expression of masochismo. They also emanated considerable, usually unintentional, homoerotic appeal.

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Stop The Sag: State Senator Starts Campaign To End Saggy Pants (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Stop the Sag Video, Video, Billboards, Saggy Pants Trend, Pants on the Ground, Youth Culture, Eric Adams, Stop the Sag, Larry Platt, Sagging, Saggy Pants, New York News

State Senator Eric Adams has a message for the youth of America: Stop the Sag! The Brooklyn politician is behind six new billboards around town tak...

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Calls For Paterson Resignation Reveal Racial Tensions

nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Eric Adams, Governor David Paterson, David Johnson, Governor Paterson, David Paterson, Paterson Resignation, New York, Paterson Resign, New York News

Some top black New York Democrats questioned on Monday whether calls for Gov. David A. Paterson either to resign or to transfer some of his authority ...

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Reason for Hope: Black Legislators and Same-Sex Marriage

Carlos A. Ball | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News, Proposition 8, New Jersey, Eric Adams, New York, Gay Rights, African Americans, Politics News
Carlos A. Ball

I think it is crucial for gay rights activists to acknowledge and thank the black leaders, including the African American state senators in New York and New Jersey that have stood up to support gay rights.

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Sen. Adams Would Have Arrested Gates Immediately

Brooklyn Paper | Mike McLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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State Sen. Eric Adams inserted himself into the national debate over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates in his own home last month by s...

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