BY THE VILLAGE SUN | A 6th Precinct police officer was indicted for allegedly punching a man in the face and knocking him out during…
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On Tuesday, the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, people gathered to protest on Centre St. outside the Municipal Building near One Police…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Jan. 28, 2:30 a.m.: Corky Lee, the preeminent Chinatown documentary photographer and activist, has lost his battle with COVID. Lee,…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Local politicians are demanding that Francisco Garcia face criminal charges for his aggressive arrest in May of Lower East Side…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | In some shades of the present, 45 years ago Chinatown was roiled by protests over an incident of police abuse…
BY MARY REINHOLZ | The Village Independent Democrats and Downtown Independent Democrats over the weekend both voted to approve sweeping police reform resolutions. V.I.D. passed…
East Village artist Mac McGill’s new illustration “I Can’t Breathe” is a commentary on the injustice — and the constant danger — that black men…
BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL | Updated May 29, 1:00 a.m.: Spurred by the chilling caught-on-video death of a black Minneapolis man while being arrested by police,…