Thursday, January 5, 2012
Raw Story
An officer in Utica, New York is being accused of planting evidence — and he was busted by the dash cam in his own police cruiser.
The Utica Phoenix recently obtained dash cam video of a February 11, 2011 traffic stop, where officers Palladino and Padulla search an African-American couple.
At about one minute into the video, one of the officers is seen taking a plastic bag out of his back pocket and seems to place it inside the vehicle. Several moments later, he emerges from the vehicle with a larger plastic bag, presumably evidence...[Full Article]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7oenshcwPk
Labels: corruption, New York, planting evidence, police, Utica, video
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 26, 2011
In Rochester, New York, if you dare protest against the thuggish behavior of the local cops, you might get a big fat ticket. That’s what happened when people came out to support Emily Good, the woman arrested for recording the police.
She was completely within her rights to do so, standing on her how private property, but one of Rochester’s finest ignored her rights and trespassed and arrested her. See a video of the incident below.
Now the cops in upstate New York are going after people outraged over the incident. This is obviously political intimidation. The Rochester cops are attempting to prevent people from exercising their First Amendment right. It’s the sort of behavior one would expect in a communist country or some tin horn dictatorship, not America.
Labels: Kurt Nimmo, New York, police, Rochester
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
A woman was arrested for videotaping police from her front yard in Rochester, New York.
The woman, who is unidentified at this point, was recording a traffic stop where police had a man handcuffed on May 12th. The video was uploaded to Blip TV today.
The cops noticed her recording and started hassling her with absurd notions...[Full Article]
Labels: New York, police state, Rochester, videotaping
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Is This a Zionist Militia in New York State?
[From http://www.israelnationalnews.com]
Labels: Burn the Talmud, Camp Tel Chai, Kitat Konenut, New York, Zionism, Zionist
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Biggest Mafia Bust in New York History
Charges range from gambling to racketeering to murder
NBC New York
The FBI calls it the biggest mafia round-up in New York history. More than 100 suspected mobsters are being arrested this morning in connection with numerous federal investigations into New York area mob groups as first reported on NBCNewYork.com.
FBI agents along with NYPD and State Police officers, and US Marshals were conducting raids that began in the early morning hours. Federal charges are expected to range from gambling to racketeering to murder...
[Full Article]Mafia bust nets 127 suspected members of organized crime in sweeping crackdown
NY Daily News
The feds staged a massive Mafia roundup Thursday, arresting 127 suspected gangsters from the city's five mob families - along with hoods from New Jersey and Rhode Island - on charges ranging from racketeering and extortion to murder.
Federal agents launched their crackdown before dawn, and by mid-morning the jail at Fort Hamilton was filling up fast.
"Some of these men were involved in classic mob murders," said U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. "Some were senseless murders."
In one case, said Holder, a man was shot and killed "over a spilled drink."...
[Full Article]Labels: FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mafia, New York
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
FBI Gets Convictions Against Entrapped Dupes Who Planned to Blow Up Synagogues in Bronx
Four men face life in prison after being convicted of plotting to blow up synagogues in New York and shoot down military planes.
The group - James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen - were caught in an FBI sting operation.
Shahed Hussain, an undercover informant, was hired by officers in 2008 to infiltrate a mosque in Newburgh, about an hour north of New York.
A court heard that there he hatched a plan with Cromitie, 44, to blow up synagogues in the Bronx area of New York with remote-controlled bombs.
The other men, aged between 28 and 24, were recruited to the scheme and planned to shoot down cargo planes with heat-seeking missiles.
The men were seen in secretly filmed video footage practising with a missile launcher and praying together in a warehouse in Connecticut two weeks before the planned attack.
They were arrested last year after planting bombs, which they did not know were FBI-supplied fakes, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx...
[Full Article]Jury convicts four men in New York synagogue bomb plot after 'Big Brother' style surveillance
Related Article:
FBI stings for alleged would-be terrorists not unusual
Labels: Bronx, entrapment, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York, provocateur, synagogues
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Says Many Gang Members Were Coming After His Family
CBS New York
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (CBS 2) — He was arrested for protecting his property and family.
But it’s how the Long Island man did it that police say crossed the line.
He got an AK-47 assault rifle, pulled the trigger and he ended up in jail, reports CBS 2’s Pablo Guzman.
George Grier said he had to use his rifle on Sunday night to stop what he thought was going to be an invasion of his Uniondale home by a gang he thought might have been the vicious “MS-13.” He said the whole deal happened as he was about to drive his cousin home.
“I went around and went into the house, ran upstairs and told my wife to call the police. I get the gun and I go outside and I come into the doorway and now, by this time, they are in the driveway, back here near the house. I tell them, you know, ‘Can you please leave?’ Grier said.
Grier said the five men dared him to use the gun; and that their shouts brought another larger group of gang members in front of his house.
“He starts threatening my family, my life. ‘Oh you’re dead. I’m gonna kill your family and your babies. You’re dead.’ So when he says that, 20 others guys come rushing around the corner. And so I fired four warning shots into the grass,” Grier said.
Grier was later arrested. John Lewis is Grier’s attorney.
“What he’s initially charged with – A D felony reckless endangerment — requires a depraved indifference to human life, creating a risk that someone’s going to die. Shooting into a lawn doesn’t create a risk of anybody dying,” Lewis said.
Grier said he knew Nassau County Police employ the hi-tech “ShotSpotter” technology in his area and that the shooting would bring police in minutes. Cops told Guzman he was very cooperative.
Grier also said he was afraid the gang outside his house was the dreaded MS-13. And Nassau County Police Lt. Andrew Mulraine, head of the gang unit, said MS-13 has 2,000 members in the county.
“They’re probably the most organized. They almost have a military hierarchy within the gang, so they are the most organized gang we encounter on a daily basis,” Mulraine said.
You may think a person has the right to defend their home. But the law says you can only use physical force to deter physical force. Grier said he never saw anyone pull out a gun, so a court would have to decide on firing the gun.
Police determined Grier had the gun legally. He has no criminal record. And so he was not charged for the weapon.
That ShotSpotter technology pinpoints where a gun has been fired within 35 feet. Police said it also detected two other shootings in nearby Roosevelt that night.
Labels: 2nd amendment, Long Island, New York
Saturday, August 7, 2010
[NBCNewYork.com]
Full body scanners that have stirred controversy for producing virtually naked images of airline passengers are coming to airports near you next month.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced that the hotly debated machines will be installed at Newark Liberty, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia international airports in September. TSA officials contend that the technology allows security screeners to see non-metal weapons like explosives that go undetected by existing metal detectors.
In March 2010, the agency started sending out 450 machines, which were bought with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Forty-one airports across the country already have the imaging technology installed at security checkpoints, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
While the TSA calls the technology less invasive than a pat-down, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the Department of Homeland Security to stop the use of the machines, charging that the scanners are unconstitutional.
“Body scanners produce detailed, three-dimensional images of individuals,” the group states on its Web site. “Security experts have described whole body scanners as the equivalent of ‘a physically invasive strip-search.’”
Only passengers that are flagged for extra security screenings are asked to go stand in the machines for imaging.
The TSA has tried to allay the public’s privacy concerns by stating that the scanners cannot store naked images of travelers, but through a Freedom of Information Act request EPIC found that one of these machines at a courthouse in Florida had stored 35,314 images.
Acting director of the TSA, Gale Rossides, said in a letter to EPIC, “It seems that though the machines at airports are manufactured with the capability to store images, that capability is used in ‘testing mode’ only – and not at airports."
Labels: airport, body scanners, JFK, LaGuardia, New Jersey, New York, Newark, Transportation Security Administration, TSA
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Troops assisted in over 2,000 arrests last year alone as America sinks into total martial law
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, July 8, 2010
It has emerged that the New York National Guard is assisting in the arrests of thousands of American citizens as part of the “drug war,” while at the same time the U.S. government itself orders troops in Afghanistan to guard the poppy fields as heroin floods American streets, in yet another shining example of how the United States is under a state of de facto martial law.
Yesterday we reported on how the New York National Guard is working with local law enforcement authorities to perform sophisticated scans of vehicles entering the New York area looking for guns and drugs, a program celebrated by local new station Fox 23, who today ran a part two on the Guard’s activities in the region.
The news clip lauds the fact that the National Guard are conducting surveillance flights over the area “looking for marijuana” using infrared cameras.
“The New York National Guard assisted in more than 2,000 arrests last year, and had almost $150 million in drug, property, and weapon seizures,” states the report.
The entire justification behind the use of National Guard units in scanning vehicles, making arrests, and going into schools to brainwash kids into thinking its normal to have men in military fatigues toting machine guns walking around American streets providing “security” is that they are keeping drugs off the streets.
But while military assets are being used to track down pot-smoking teenagers in New York, the U.S. government itself is ordering troops in Afghanistan to guard the poppy fields, allowing tons of heroin to flood onto American streets. Opium production has exploded since the invasion of Afghanistan, as the CIA regains control of a much cherished source for its global narcotics trafficking operations.
Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance and other revelations from the Iran-Contra Affair, Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia and beyond all point to the sad fact that those in power in the United States, including the CIA, have driven the drug trade, not slowed or stopped it.
Indeed, in September 2008 it emerged that a Gulfstream II private jet that crash-landed in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA “rendition” flights.
The use of National Guard units in arresting American citizens and patrolling the streets is part of the acclimation process to make Americans accept the sight of military assets engaging in domestic law enforcement as a routine occurrence. In rolling out this program under the pretext of the war on drugs, authorities are attempting to perform a slick end run around Posse Comitatus, which would normally make it illegal for the military to conduct such operations.
In the past, scenes of troops ordering citizens around were widely denounced as being characteristic of an authoritarian, backward, dictatorial country under a state of martial law. America was seen as the leading light of the world because its people were free from this tyranny. Now that American is under a de facto state of martial law, such scenes are becoming commonplace.
The fact that many of these Guard troops are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, where they are part of an occupying force trained to round up and detain the host population in prison camps for the most minor of infractions is also a shocking facet to this story.
As we highlighted yesterday, National Guard units are now being deployed for things like traffic control in places like Kingman Arizona, and providing security at sports events like the Kentucky Derby.
As we reported in 2008, U.S. troops returning from Iraq are now occupying America, running checkpoints and training to deal with “civil unrest and crowd control” under the auspices of a Northcom program that by 2011 will have no less than 20,000 active duty troops deployed inside America to “help” state and local officials during times of emergency.
We have documented numerous instances of troops and National Guard personnel being used to perform law enforcement duties which are transparently outside the purview of the Guard’s supposed role to respond to national emergencies and therefore completely illegal.
In January 2009, soldiers from the Lynchburg-based 1st Battalion, 116th Brigade Combat Team, were used to conduct personal searches at checkpoints in Washington DC for the inauguration of Barack Obama.
In March of that same year, we reported on U.S. Army troops dispatched to patrol the streets of Samson, Alabama, after a murder spree.
On April 6, we reported on a DHS, federal, state, Air Force, and local law enforcement checkpoint in Tennessee. On April 3, Infowars was instrumental in the cancellation of a seatbelt checkpoint that was to be conducted in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the 251st Military Police in Bolivar, Tennessee.
In December 2008, we reported on the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center dispatching troops to work with police on checkpoints in in San Bernardino County, California.
On April 22 2009, we reported the deployment of 400 National Guard Combat Support Battalion troops to “maintain public order” at the Boston Marathon.
In June 2008, Infowars posted an article by D. H. Williams of the Daily Newscaster reporting the deployment of 2,300 Marines in the city of Indianapolis under the direction of FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
We also reported a story on April 22 2009 covering the assault of a local television news team by an irate police officer in El Paso, Texas. A video taken by the news videographer shows uniformed soldiers working with police officers at the scene of a car accident.
If we accept the seamless integration of troops into law enforcement then America as the “land of the free” will cease to exist for good, to be replaced by an oppressive Sovietized police state with an overlay of 21st century technology designed to monitor and control our every movement. This is only made more alarming by the fact that the National Guard are now training with foreign troops to take on American “terrorists” as part of this integration process.
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Rob Dew
Prisonplanet.com
July 7, 2010
Alex Jones exposes the latest story to make his blood boil– the announcement that National Guard will violate posse comitatus, the 4th Amendment and other restrictions to assist NY state police search & scan vehicles for contraband. With the premise of enforcing the war on drugs, they will utilize new high-tech mobile scanning units that will deploy gamma radiation to locate drugs, weapons or even people. Alex also covers a host of other subjects; please watch and spread around.
OPERATION VIGILANT GUARD EXPOSED: Polish Troops Train To Take On American “Terrorists”
The Infowars.com crew takes on tyranny again in a special expose of Operation Vigilant Guard and recent martial law drills in Chicago preparing police, military and even foreign troops to take-on disasters, terrorism, biological or chemical warfare and the population itself. See it right now– only for members at PrisonPlanet.tv.
Excerpts from Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA
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Labels: gun confiscations, National Guard, New York, PrisonPlanet.com, Rob Dew
Friday, May 21, 2010
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (CBS) ―A 13-year-old New York student was suspended for wearing rosary beads to school.
Raymond Hosier was sent home for two days over the religious symbol, visible outside his clothing.
His school district in Schenectady said students are not allowed to wear beads out of concern they may be gang-related. Hosier, however, said they're comforting since the loss of his brother and uncle.
"I was just mad that they were suspending me for rosary beads and I told them I wasn't in a gang and they must resemble my brother and uncle," he said.
Hosier said he refuses to take them off, and he could be suspended again if he wears them to school on Monday...
[Full Article]
Labels: New York, rosary beads, Schenectady, school, suspension
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Some Arrived As Early As Friday Armed With Blankets Hoping To Get 1 Of 750 Applications For Elevator Industry Job
New York (CBS) - Desperate times call for desperate measures – even if it means camping out in the rain for a chance at a job application.
Hundreds of job-seekers did just that in Queens in the hopes of landing a coveted union job.
Construction workers, engineers, electricians -- hundreds spent the weekend right here. Many left with a job application, while many others walked away empty-handed...
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CNN VIDEO - Obamaville: Tent City In New York Set Up In Hopes For Elevator Job
Labels: economy, New York, Queens, tent city, unemployment
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
NYPD Hercules Teams - Police State In New York City
Frustrated by the lack of help from Washington, police commissioner Ray Kelly has created his own versions of the CIA and the FBI within the department. So how will we know if he has succeeded? If nothing happens.
Buried deep in the heart of one of New York's outer boroughs, in an area inhabited by junkyards and auto-body shops, is an unmarked redbrick building that stands as an extraordinary symbol of police commissioner Ray Kelly's obsessive commitment to the fight against terrorism. Here, miles from Manhattan, is the headquarters of the NYPD's one-year-old counterterrorism bureau.
When you step through the plain metal door at the side of the building, it is like falling down the rabbit hole—you're transported from a mostly desolate, semi-industrial area in the shadow of an elevated highway into the new, high-tech, post-9/11 world of the New York City Police Department...
Protecting America's cities, ports, borders and airports requires new technology and new tactics. Here's a look at who's doing it right.
No one sees them coming. There are no flashing lights, no sirens. The black Suburban simply glides out of Fifth Avenue traffic and pulls into a no-parking zone in front of the Empire State Building. Moments later, four men spill out in combat helmets and heavy body armor: Two carry submachine guns; the others, snub-nosed shotguns.
Camera-toting tourists stop jabbering and stare at this intimidating new presence, their faces a mixture of curiosity and fear. Even jaded New Yorkers, many of whom work inside the midtown Manhattan landmark, look impressed.
A stone's throw down the sidewalk, Abad Nieves watches the scene unfold. Nieves is a detective with the Intelligence Division of the New York Police Department (NYPD). Casually clad in slacks and a black leather jacket, he monitors the response of people loitering in the area. Is anyone making notes or videotaping? Does anyone seem especially startled by the out-of-the-blue appearance of a heavily armed NYPD squad?
On this day, Nieves doesn't see anything overly suspicious, but he is pleased that the deployment created a strong impression. Known as a Hercules team, it makes multiple appearances around the city each day. The locations are chosen either in response to specific intelligence or simply to provide a show of force at high-profile sites.
"The response we usually get is, 'Holy s---!'" Nieves says. "That's the reaction we want. We are in the business of scaring people--we just want to scare the right people."...
Subway Riders Still Wary After Security Boost
NEW YORK (CBS) ―In response to two suicide bombings during Moscow's morning rush, the MTA has beefed up security in the City subway system, and to many riders that added a sense of security.
New York City is taking every precaution, with security measures seen and unseen, in order to protect mass transit riders.
The squads of black-helmeted, heavily armed cops are called Hercules teams, and they are intended as a show of raw muscle – at once a deterrent and a reassurance. Ever-realistic New York commuters take their presence at face value...
Labels: Hercules teams, New York, NYPD
Thursday, March 11, 2010
MYFOXNY.COM - Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill
introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
"No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises," the bill, A. 10129 , states in part...
Labels: big brother, New York
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