NEW YORK — With violent crime at historic lows but rents and homelessness at record highs, New Yorkers elected Democrat Bill de Blasio as their next mayor Tuesday after embracing his vow to bridge the gap between rich and poor and to
end police tactics...
Not exact matches
In 2001,
police deployed the controversial
tactic of ring - fencing about 5,000 protestors in Oxford Circus for eight hours, effectively
ending a planned procession.
Certainly not the protestors who were on the
end of aggressive
policing tactics, like the young man on the Channel 4 video clip who recalls how he was given an unprovoked punch in the face by a
police officer while sitting on the ground with his hands over his head.
Mr. Foy, who in 2013 unsuccessfully sought the Brooklyn City Council seat now held by Robert Cornegy, recalled Mr. de Blasio's campaign attacks on the controversial
policing tactic of stop and frisk, and said the African - American community will not be content with the
end of that practice alone..