Tuesday, February 15, 2022

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"Instagram removed... a post from the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association’s Instagram page urging followers to boycott The Super Bowl in protest..."

Posted: 15 Feb 2022 04:31 AM PST

"... of half-time performer Snoop Dog's song lyrics that promote anti-police violence. According to Instagram, the Feb. 11 post, which decried anti-police violence, was 'removed for violence and incitement.' 'Encouraging people to shoot police officers apparently earns you a spot as a headliner at the Superbowl,' the PBA wrote in the post.... The post included lyrics to Snoop Dogg and J5Slap's song 'Police,' screenshotted from a New York Post column by sportswriter Phil Mushnick questioning the NFL and sponsors' money-grabbing decision to allow the rapper to headline. The song, which features incendiary, anti-police lyrics was released on Jan. 22, just weeks before the big game."

From "Suffolk County PBA's post condemning Snoop Dogg removed by Instagram" (NY Post). Instagram later restored the post.

"Though the authorities have not determined that Ms. Lee was targeted because of her ethnicity, her killing stoked fears in the city’s Asian community.... Her killing also fit a pattern..."

Posted: 15 Feb 2022 04:21 AM PST

"... that has become an unsettlingly common feature of the pandemic in New York City: a seemingly unprovoked attack in which the person charged is a homeless man. In many neighborhoods in Manhattan, residents have expressed growing concern about homeless people, some of whom seem to be struggling with mental illness, menacing and harassing passers-by.... Mr. Nash had a string of arrests dating to 2015 in New York and New Jersey on charges including assault, burglary and drug possession. He proclaimed his innocence as detectives led him in handcuffs out of the Fifth Precinct station house.... 'I didn't kill anyone,' he said. 'I don't know what's going on.'... In January, he was charged with criminal mischief and unlawful escape; the police said he was disabling MetroCard machines at several subway stations and tried to escape from a police van after his arrest. The judge handling the case could have set bail on the escape charge, but prosecutors did not request it...."

From "Screams That 'Went Quiet': Prosecutors' Account of Chinatown Killing/Christina Yuna Lee, who was described as 'irreplaceable,' was stabbed to death in her apartment after a man followed her into her building" (NYT).

Police heard the woman crying out as they struggled to break through the locked door, and Nash was found inside the apartment, hiding under a bed.

"New Yorkers who live in areas where controversial stop-and-frisk searches happen most frequently are also more likely to be surveilled by facial recognition technology..."

Posted: 15 Feb 2022 03:52 AM PST

"... according to research by Amnesty International and other researchers. Research also showed that in the Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens boroughs of the city there was a direct correlation between the proportion of non-white residents and the concentration of controversial facial recognition technology. 'Our analysis shows that the NYPD's use of facial recognition technology helps to reinforce discriminatory policing against minority communities in New York City,' said Matt Mahmoudi, artificial intelligence and human rights researcher at Amnesty International...."

The Guardian reports.

At the Sunrise Café...

Posted: 14 Feb 2022 05:40 PM PST

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... you can talk about whatever you want.

“A federal judge said Monday he planned to dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times….”

Posted: 14 Feb 2022 01:45 PM PST

The NYT reports.

The unexpected decision by the judge, Jed S. Rakoff, came during the second day of jury deliberations in the case. He said he would allow the jury to continue working and that if they ruled in favor of Ms. Palin he would dismiss the case. He indicated that he believed an appeal by Ms. Palin was likely, and he said that the appeals court "would greatly benefit from knowing how the jury would decide" the case.
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