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NYC TO PAY LARGEST CIVIL RIGHTS SETTLEMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY TO GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTERS
TOTAL COST SO FAR FOR THE NYPD’S VIOLENT SUPPRESSION OF PEACEFUL POLITICAL DISSENT FOLLOWING THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD BY MINNEAPOLIS POLICE: $36 MILLION AND COUNTING.

NYPD BEGINS BLOCKING PRESS AND PUBLIC FROM LISTENING TO ITS RADIO BROADCASTS
NYPD RADIO BROADCASTS IN SIX BROOKLYN PRECINCTS GO DARK IN HISTORIC FIRST. PART OF CITY-WIDE UPGRADE TO DIGITAL RADIOS CAPABLE OF ENCRYPTED TRANSMISSIONS THAT WILL MAKE ALL NYPD BROADCASTS SECRET IN 2024.

NY'S GOVERNOR WANTS TO GIVE WORK PERMITS TO NEWLY-ARRIVED MIGRANTS, BUT SHE WON'T GIVE ONE TO A LIFE-LONG NEW YORKER
EDITORIAL. PREVIOUS DEMOCRATIC PIONEERS PROMISED NEW YORKERS A “NEW DEAL” BUT KATHY HOCHUL, THE EMPIRE STATE’S FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR, SEEMS INTENT TO SERVE HER CONSTITUENTS A “RAW DEAL”

'MOST INFAMOUSLY OBSCENE BOOK’ IN HISTORY PROTECTS DRAG AND WHAT AMERICANS THINK
AVANT GARDE ARTISTS IN NEW YORK CITY FOUGHT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM FOR THE RIGHT TO PUBLISH JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES AFTER IT WAS BANNED FOR OPENING “ALL THE SECRET SEWERS OF VICE” IN 1920.

TRIBE'S DECADES' LONG FIGHT TO REGAIN STOLEN LAND NEARS END
NEW YORK STOLE MOHAWK LAND IN 1796. NOW THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE IS ABOUT TO WIN THE RIGHT TO BUY IT BACK IN A LANDMARK LEGAL SETTLEMENT. BUT SHOULD IT BUY IT OR SHOULD NEW YORK GIVE IT BACK?

HOW TRUMP BEATS THE RAP AND GETS RE-ELECTED
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH 38 FEDERAL FELONIES FOR BASICALLY STEALING TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS AND TRYING TO COVER IT UP. BUT HE’S HOLDING SEVERAL ACE CARDS THAT, IF HE PLAYS THEM RIGHT, COULD GET HIM ACQUITTED AND RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT.

'I BROKE A MAN DOWN': NYPD COP WHO SODOMIZED ABNER LOUIMA GETS EARLY RELEASE, BACK IN NEW YORK
NYPD OFFICER JUSTIN VOLPE RAPED ABNER LOUIMA WITH A BROKEN BROOM STICK IN A BROOKLYN POLICE PRECINCT BATHROOM IN 1997. HE QUALIFIED FOR EARLY RELEASE UNDER TRUMP LAW.

MAINE'S JUSTICE SYSTEM IS 'FAILING,' CHIEF JUDGE SAYS, BUT DEMOCRAT GOV. BLOCKS FIX
FORMER PROSECUTOR JANET MILLS IS POSING AS A PROGRESSIVE WHILE OVERSEEING 'LITTLE MISSISSIPPI' CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OF CHRONICALLY UNDERFUNDED COURTS AND INDIGENT DEFENSE

FOX NEWS' FAVORITE POLICE EXPERT IS SELF-PROCLAIMED 'KING OF BULLSHIT'
WILLIAM “WILD BILL” STANTON IS A FORMER NYPD ROOKIE WHO MADE MILLIONS AS A CELEBRITY BODYGUARD AND PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR WHILE COLLECTING MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS IN DISABILITY PAYOUTS. NOW HE’S FOX NEWS’S FAVORITE COPAGANDIST.

WHAT JOURNALISTS AND EVERYONE ELSE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A NEW YORK POST REPORTER
“YOU COVERED TOO MANY MURDERS TO BE KILLED. DEATH BECOMES YOU. YOU WEAR IT LIKE A TAILORED SUIT. LIKE A TALISMANIC NECKLACE OF BONES TO WARD OFF EVIL-DOERS.”

GOOD SAMARITAN OR VIGILANTE?: WHAT THE LAW SAYS ABOUT DANIEL PENNY'S KILLING OF JORDAN NEELY
THE ‘BYSTANDER EFFECT’ AND SMARTPHONE CULTURE ENCOURAGE EYEWITNESSES TO RECORD INSTEAD OF ACT BUT THE LAW ALLOWS AND ENCOURAGES GOOD SAMARTIANS TO TAKE ACTION WHEN ACTION IS NEEDED.

‘IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW IT’S WHO YOU KNOW’
WHAT LINKS THE SUPREME COURT’S CLARENCE THOMAS, REPUBLICAN BILLIONAIRE MEGA-DONOR HARLAN CROW, DONALD TRUMP, MARIYLN MONROE, JOE DIMAGGIO, THE FOUNDER OF CEREAL, A SOCIALITE RACEHORSE BREEDER AND A HOTDOG KINGPIN FROM NEW JERSEY NAMED ROGER JAKUBOWSKI?

INSIDE CLARENCE THOMAS'S SECRET ADIRONDACK SUMMERS WITH A REPUBLICAN MEGA-DONOR BILLIONAIRE
LOCAL RESIDENTS CONTRADICT THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE’S ATTEMPT TO PORTRAY HIMSELF AS AN RV-LOVING EVERYMAN AND OFFER A WINDOW INTO A CENTURY-OLD, LITTLE KNOWN HIDEAWAY OF THE SUPER-WEALTHY.

CLEAN SLATE, NOT BAIL, IS WHAT DEMOCRATS IN ALBANY SHOULD BE FIGHTING FOR
EDITORIAL: IT’S TIME FOR NEW YORK’S DEMOCRATS TO SQUELCH THEIR INTRA-MURAL SQUABBLE OVER BAIL LAWS AND ENACT CLEAN SLATE INSTEAD.

THROWBACK THURSDAY: ‘CUFF JUSTICE’ FOR COP KILLER
THROWBACK TO MY FIRST BIG EXCLUSIVE FOR THE NEW YORK POST IN 2007, WHEN I CHASED A PAIR OF ALLEGED COP KILLERS TO THE POCONOS AND CAUGHT COPS CATCHING ONE OF THEM.

'DISRESPECTING THE DON': MEET THE COURT COPS WHO LET DOOR SWING CLOSE ON TRUMP
CHIEFS LET COURTROOM DOOR CLOSE IN THE FACE OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING HIS ARRAIGNMENT ON 34 FELONY COUNTS OF FALSIFYING RECORDS

DETAILS EMERGE OF 2 MIGRANT FAMILIES MYSTERIOUSLY KILLED, SEARCH CONTINUES
-ADVOCATES BLAME US PRES. JOE BIDEN, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU
-TRAGEDY HIGHLIGHTS GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ILLEGALLY CROSSING NORTHERN US BORDER

8 KILLED CROSSING RIVER BY BOAT INTO US FROM CANADA, ILLEGALLY
-2 YEAR-OLD & INFANT AMONG DEAD KILLED CROSSING FREEZING ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
-TRAGEDY HIGHLIGHTS GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ILLEGALLY ENTERING THE US FROM CANADA

INSIDE THE PLAN TO PERP WALK DONALD TRUMP
-WHAT DONALD TRUMP’S PERP-WALK WILL LOOK LIKE
-MEET THE JOURNALISTS COVERING THE ARREST AND ARRAIGNMENT OF A FORMER PRESIDENT
-BITTER NEWSPAPER FEUD THAT COULD EFFECT WHETHER THE PUBLIC SEES A PHOTOGRAPH OF TRUMP IN HANDCUFFS

‘INNOCENT UNTIL PHOTOGRAPHED’: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PERP WALKS
-PICTURE HISTORY OF PERP WALKS IN NEW YORK CITY
-JOURNALISTS’ GUIDE TO COVERING PERP WALKS