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e. Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947), [a] also known as Joanne Chesimard, is an American political activist who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). In 1977, she was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.
The Supreme Team was a street gang organized in the early 1980s in the vicinity of the Baisley Park Houses in Jamaica, Queens, New York, by a group of teenagers who were members of the Five-Percent Nation. Under the leadership of Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, with Miller, his nephew, as second-in-command, the gang concentrated its criminal efforts ...
The Jamaica Neighborhood Plan aims to create a vision driven by the local community for Jamaica’s future where the community has more people able to live, work and play in the area. The Plan focuses on the downtown Jamaica area, around a 300-block radius and includes transportation corridors, manufacturing districts, institutions and ...
Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S. 167 (1961) (in part) Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), is an opinion given by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court overruled Monroe v. Pape by holding that a local government is a "person" subject to suit under Section 1983 of Title 42 of the United States Code: Civil action for ...
August 27, 2024 at 4:16 PM. NEW YORK (AP) — Police in the suburbs of New York City made the first arrest under a new local law banning face masks, officials announced Tuesday. Nassau County ...
Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is mainly composed of a large commercial and retail area, though part of the neighborhood is also residential. Jamaica is bordered by Hollis to the east; St. Albans, Springfield Gardens, Cambria Heights, Rochdale Village to the southeast; South Jamaica to the south; Richmond ...
September 3, 2024 at 4:29 PM. By Luc Cohen. NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former aide to New York Governor Kathy Hochul was charged on Tuesday with secretly acting as an agent of the Chinese government in ...
August 27, 2024 at 3:32 PM. New York City correction officer Anthony Martin Jr. was suspended without pay after his arrest in April. A New York City correction officer was indicted Monday on ...