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NYC man describes saving stabbed dad from accused killer neighbor
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NYC man describes saving stabbed dad from accused killer neighbor

When Skender Cobaj heard his elderly father screaming for help from the next room in their Staten Island home he never imagined what he would find when he ran to help. Cobaj’s dad was fighting off an unprovoked knife attack from an unhinged neighbor who came knocking on their door after slaying another elderly neighbor up the block, Cobaj and cops say. “He was stabbing my father,” Cobaj, 51, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview revealing the details of the shocking Sept. 22 bloodbath in peaceful Sunnyside. Cobaj was slashed in the hands wrestling 57-year-old neighbor Ramazan Ramusevic into submission. “I defused him and held him until the authorities came,” Cobaj said. “We were friends,” Cobaj said of the accused attacker. “I spoke to him all the time. He was a neighborhood guy t...
NYPD Body Cam Data Shows the Scale of Violence Against Protesters
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NYPD Body Cam Data Shows the Scale of Violence Against Protesters

Beaten, blinded by pepper spray, corralled like animals, and indiscriminately arrested for marching against police violence and racial injustice. Such was the fate hundreds of people suffered at the hands of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in late May and early June of 2020, as thousands of people across the United States protested the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.Three years later, a class action lawsuit has resulted in the City of New York agreeing to pay $9,950 each to some 1,380 protesters as part of a settlement. Costing taxpayers more than $13 million, it’s the largest amount paid to protesters in US history, according to the legal team behind the class action suit.Lawyers secured the settlement with the aid of a little-known tool that helped the...
The Carlee Russell ‘Disappearance’ Story Takes a Strange Twist – RedState
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The Carlee Russell ‘Disappearance’ Story Takes a Strange Twist – RedState

Last Thursday evening, Alabama resident Carlee Russell, 25, seemingly disappeared out of thin air after calling 911 to file a report on an alleged male toddler who she claimed was walking alone on the side of Interstate 459 South. She told dispatchers that she wanted to check on and presumably rescue the child. Thankfully, Russell returned home late Saturday night on foot. Though she was disheveled, according to her parents, as though something had happened to her, police have since revealed new information that calls into question her story that she was abducted by a male and female. According to reports on the timeline of events regarding Russell’s alleged disappearance, after she disconnected from 911 she also placed a call to her brother’s girlfriend, who Russell’s mother, Talitha ...
No Charges One Year After Police Killed Unarmed Black Man
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No Charges One Year After Police Killed Unarmed Black Man

Demetria Brooks-Glaze traveled around Texas over the past year so she could properly lay her brother, Roderick Brooks, to rest.She eventually decided to bury him in a cemetery in their hometown of Longview, where their mother is buried. She stops by the site every time she’s in the area.“I cannot go home without going to visit,” Brooks-Glaze told HuffPost. “It still feels like we just buried him.”This weekend will mark one year since a deputy in Harris County fatally shot Brooks, a 47-year-old unarmed Black man, after he allegedly shoplifted detergent from a Dollar General in Houston and pushed a store worker out of the way as he left. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office still has not sent the case to a grand jury.“It should not have taken this long for the case to go to the gran...