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Police said Yohenry Brito was disobeying a lawful order to disperse when an officer tried to arrest him, triggering a melee with nearly a dozen men. But footage released today shows he was walking away.
Curtis Sliwa, founder of the vigilante group seen in the clip, has previously admitted to faking several crimes for publicity including his own kidnapping.
“His mother back in Venezuela felt the vibrations,” the group’s founder Curtis Sliwa boasted to Sean Hannity, adding the man is now “sucking concrete.”
After being stopped, Yusef Salaam said police let him on his way when he identified himself as a member of New York's City Council.
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Heather Stines, 45, was charged with concealing a corpse after officers discovered the body parts in the fridge.
Hill, best known as Andy Cohen's radio co-host, gave HuffPost a sneak peek at "Wellness Check" before hitting the stage in NYC and Chicago this week.
A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a secret tunnel built beneath a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a brawl between police and the tunnel's defenders.
Organizers said in-person attendance is expected to return to pre-COVID levels, even as foot traffic around Times Square remains down slightly since the pandemic.
The mayors of Chicago, New York City and Denver have renewed pleas for more federal help over the growing number of asylum-seekers arriving in their cities.
The measure would bar solitary confinement beyond four-hour “de-escalation” periods during emergencies.