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How a Manhunt Unfolded: An Alert, a Tweet, a Call From the Suspect

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2 years ago

April 18, 2022

Greetings. It’s Monday. We’ll recall at 31 hrs when New york city City got on side — from the assault on the train in Brooklyn to the apprehension of a suspect. We’ll likewise see a photo that will certainly quickly be up at the National September 11 Gallery, the one photo of a sufferer that the gallery did not have.

The suspect did not return to the van he had actually parked in the Gravesend area of Brooklyn and also repel, going to a few other city or a few other state. He left ideas behind, whether he meant to or otherwise — the trick to the van, which the authorities might map, and also charge card that brought a name. And also a weapon that was swiftly mapped to an acquisition a years earlier in Ohio. The buyer was a male called Frank Robert James.

That was the name on the charge card. He was 62 and also lately had actually been remaining in Philly.

However as the authorities activated to locate him, he merely vanished right into the city.

The manhunt that complied with had an immediacy that was distinct to this minute. It was hard to bear in mind a manhunt where onlookers aimed the authorities to a suspect, with one photographing the male and also publishing on Twitter. “Hooray for onlookers that assisted,” one commenter created on nytimes.com after reviewing our tale concerning the manhunt.

Like Mayor Eric Adams, that deplored the “dilemma that is playing throughout our nation” including weapons and also physical violence, some commenters pointed out accessibility to weapons. “We simply don’t comprehend all the weapons almost everywhere,” somebody from Australia created. “I’ve liked the traveling I’ve carried out in the U.S. in the past yet I’m unsure I’d return currently — all I check out is rage and also weapons.”

The train assault unravelled as New york city duke it outed inquiries concerning public security over ground along with on its labyrinthine transportation system. However it started unremarkably: A person that resembled a building and construction employee — a male putting on a construction hat and also a reflective security coat and also holding a knapsack — strolled right into a metro terminal. When he swiped his MetroCard at a gate and also it did not allow him pass, the representative at a close-by cubicle pressed a switch, opening a fire escape door. The male tipped with. It was 6:12 a.m. at the Kings Freeway terminal in Brooklyn.

At some time he boarded an N train that reached 59th Road, a six quits away, around 8:20. As soon as the train was relocating once again, he stood and also drew on a gas mask. He took a container from a bag he was bring. “Oops,” he stated, according to a cyclist standing close by. “My negative.”

As the vehicle started full of smoke from the cylinder, he obtained a pistol and also opened up fire.

At the following quit, at the 36th Road terminal, those that might — those that had actually not been injured — put out. The shooter obviously left with them, boarding the R throughout the system and also riding the very same train as individuals he had actually simply fired.

The authorities quickly called him a “individual of rate of interest” and also, by the following early morning, a suspect.

When a sharp headed out on smart devices, a 17-year-old kid on a college excursion in Chinatown discovered a heavyset male remaining on a bench. The teen, Jack Lion, stated the male unemployed resembled the male he had actually seen in images. He photographed him and also published on Twitter at 10:29 a.m. After concerning half an hour, he stated later on, he likewise called Criminal activity Stoppers.

The authorities recalled a number of hrs later on, asking where he had actually seen the male.

One more telephone call likewise obtained their focus. The customer stated his name was Frank James, and also he was the male they were seeking.

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A last picture discovers its location

Credit Rating…Via Jordan Freeman

Quickly the wall surface of pictures at the National September 11 Memorial Gallery on the website of the Globe Profession Facility in Lower Manhattan will certainly be total. The solitary missing out on photo has actually been located.

It reveals Antonio Dorsey Pratt, that benefited Strong suit Food Solution and also was appointed to the lunchroom at Cantor Fitzgerald when the very first aircraft collapsed right into the north tower on Sept. 11, 2001. He was among the 2,753 individuals eliminated at the profession facility that day.

Throughout the years the gallery had actually put together pictures of almost a few of the targets. In 2016, when there were 7 entrusted to locate, The New york city Times released a short article that led authorities from the Division of Homeland Protection to pass on 5 pictures from the firm’s documents. Last month, New york city Today covered the exploration of among the continuing to be 2, a photo of Albert Ogletree, that likewise operated in the Cantor Fitzgerald lunchroom.

It ended up that the photo of Pratt had actually been situated in 2020 and also sent to an additional company — Voices Facility for Durability, which had actually begun an electronic archive job in 2006 and also had actually generated almost 90,000 pictures of individuals eliminated at the profession facility in 2001, together with the 6 targets (and also the coming youngster among them was bring) that passed away in a battle there in 1993.

Voices published the photo of Pratt on its site, yet the locate went undetected when the gallery was closed down early in the pandemic and also later on, when the team was busied with planning for the 20th wedding anniversary of the fear strikes.

Mary Fetchet, a founder of Voices and also its executive supervisor, stated the team had actually spoken with Jordan Freeman, that had actually been the supervisor of trade solutions for a Brooklyn-based real estate and also social solutions firm in the 1990s.

“I kept in mind that I had a picture of him,” Freeman stated, “yet I didn’t recognize where.”

Experiencing things tucked away in a bed linen wardrobe, he opened up a shoebox and also saw pictures from the 1990s. One revealed Pratt functioning as a manager at a treat store the firm ran.

“He was a course act,” Freeman stated. “Extremely wise, really inspired, really caring, pleasant, caring. Among the factors we advertised him to be in a managerial ability was he functioned well with various other customers in the program.”

He checked the picture and also sent it to Voices last autumn. After the write-up showed up in New york city Today, Voices got a launch from Jordan offering Voices authorization to transform the initial print over to the gallery, and also Fetchet provided it to Alice Greenwald, the gallery’s head of state and also president.

Jan Seidler Ramirez, an executive vice head of state of the gallery and also its primary manager, stated the initial would certainly be duplicated for installing on the wall surface. She stated that when gallery authorities saw the picture on the Voices site, they were struck by Pratt’s heat.

“There he was, grinning,” Ramirez stated. “Most of us believed, what a means in conclusion this lengthy search.”

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Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 30, 2024

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4 weeks ago

June 3, 2024

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Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 30, 2024

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Jury Deliberation Re-charge
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK CRIMINAL TERM
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PART: 59
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
-against-
DONALD J. TRUMP,
DEFENDANT.
BEFORE:
Indict. No.
71543-2023
CHARGE
4909
FALSIFYING BUSINESS
RECORDS 1ST DEGREE
JURY TRIAL
100 Centre Street
New York, New York 10013
May 30, 2024
HONORABLE JUAN M. MERCHAN
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
APPEARANCES:
FOR THE PEOPLE:
ALVIN BRAGG, JR., ESQ.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NEW YORK COUNTY
One Hogan Place
New York, New York 10013
BY:
JOSHUA STEINGLASS, ESQ.
MATTHEW COLANGELO,
ESQ.
SUSAN HOFFINGER, ESQ.
CHRISTOPHER CONROY, ESQ.
BECKY MANGOLD, ESQ.
KATHERINE ELLIS, ESQ.
Assistant District Attorneys
BLANCHE LAW
BY:
TODD BLANCHE, ESQ.
EMIL BOVE, ESQ.
KENDRA WHARTON, ESQ.
NECHELES LAW, LLP
BY: SUSAN NECHELES, ESQ.
GEDALIA STERN, ESQ.
Attorneys for the Defendant
SUSAN PEARCE-BATES, RPR, CSR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter
LAURIE EISENBERG, RPR, CSR
LISA KRAMSKY
THERESA MAGNICCARI
Senior Court Reporters
Susan Pearce-Bates, RPR, CCR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter

New York

Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 29, 2024

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4 weeks ago

May 31, 2024

Press Room

Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 29, 2024

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK CRIMINAL TERM
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
PART: 59
Indict. No.
71543-2023
CHARGE
-against-
DONALD J. TRUMP,
DEFENDANT.
BEFORE:
4815
FALSIFYING BUSINESS
RECORDS 1ST DEGREE
JURY TRIAL
X
100 Centre Street
New York, New York 10013
May 29, 2024
HONORABLE JUAN M. MERCHAN
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
APPEARANCES:
FOR THE
PEOPLE:
ALVIN BRAGG, JR.,
ESQ.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NEW YORK COUNTY
One Hogan Place
New York, New York 10013
BY:
JOSHUA STEINGLASS, ESQ.
MATTHEW COLANGELO,
ESQ.
SUSAN HOFFINGER, ESQ.
CHRISTOPHER CONROY, ESQ.
BECKY MANGOLD, ESQ.
KATHERINE ELLIS, ESQ.
Assistant District Attorneys
BLANCHE LAW
BY:
TODD BLANCHE, ESQ.
EMIL BOVE, ESQ.
KENDRA WHARTON, ESQ.
NECHELES LAW, LLP
BY: SUSAN NECHELES, ESQ.
Attorneys for the Defendant
SUSAN PEARCE-BATES, RPR, CSR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter
LAURIE EISENBERG, RPR, CSR
LISA KRAMSKY
THERESA MAGNICCARI
Senior Court Reporters
Susan Pearce-Bates,
RPR, CCR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter

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Critics Fault ‘Aggressive’ N.Y.P.D. Response to Pro-Palestinian Rally

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1 month ago

May 20, 2024

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Critics Fault ‘Aggressive’ N.Y.P.D. Response to Pro-Palestinian Rally

Violent confrontations at a pro-Palestinian rally in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on Saturday reflected what some local officials and protest organizers called an unexpectedly aggressive Police Department response, with officers flooding the neighborhood and using force against protesters.

At the rally, which drew hundreds of demonstrators, at least two officers wearing the white shirts of commanders were filmed punching three protesters who were prone in the middle of a crosswalk. One officer had pinned a man to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the ribs, a 50-second video clip shows. Another officer punched the left side of a man’s face as he held his head to the asphalt.

The police arrested around 40 people who were “unlawfully blocking roadways,” Kaz Daughtry, the department’s deputy commissioner of operations, said on social media on Sunday.

Mr. Daughtry shared drone footage of one person who climbed on a city bus, “putting himself and others in danger.” The Police Department, he wrote, “proudly protects everyone’s right to protest, but lawlessness will never be tolerated.”

Neither Mr. Daughtry nor the police commented on the use of force by officers. A spokeswoman for Mayor Eric Adams did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the police response. The Police Department’s patrol guide states that officers must use “only the reasonable force necessary to gain control or custody of a subject.”

Bay Ridge has a significant Arab American population and hosts demonstrations in mid-May every year to commemorate what Palestinians call the Nakba, or “catastrophe” — when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes during the war that led to Israel’s founding in 1948.

Andrew Gounardes, a state senator and a Democrat who represents the area, said local politicians had been in touch with the commanding officer of the 68th police precinct before the preplanned protest and said there had been no indication that there would be such a heavy police response. He called the videos he saw of the events “deeply concerning.”

“It certainly seems like the police came ready for a much more aggressive and a much more confrontational demonstration than perhaps they had gotten,” he added.

Justin Brannan, a Democrat who is the city councilman for the area, said the protest was smaller than last year’s but that officers had come from all over the city to police it. He said their approach appeared to be directed by 1 Police Plaza, the department headquarters in Manhattan.

“These were not our local cops. Clearly, there was a zero-tolerance edict sent down from 1PP, which escalated everything and made it worse,” Mr. Brannan said.

“I’m still waiting on information and details about the arrests that were made,” he added, “but from my vantage point, the response appeared pre-emptive, retaliatory and cumulatively aggressive.”

The Republican state assemblyman whose district includes parts of Bay Ridge, Alec Brook-Krasny, had a different perspective. He said an investigation would determine whether the officers’ actions were warranted, but he said some protesters were “breaking the law” by refusing to clear the street.

“I think that those bad apples are really hurting the ability of the other people to express their opinions,” Mr. Brook-Krasny said.

Some local residents supported the police and said they were tired of the protests’ disruptive impact. “Enough is enough,” said Peter Cheris, 52, a 40-year resident of Bay Ridge, who said he had viewed the videos of the protest. “If you’re going to break the law, you deserve it,” he said.

Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, singled out the presence of the Police Department’s Strategic Response Group, a unit that is sometimes deployed to protests and has been the subject of several lawsuits brought by the civil liberties union and other groups.

The police unit’s handling of the demonstration “was a violation of New Yorkers’ right to speak out and risks chilling political expression,” Ms. Lieberman said in a statement. “N.Y.C.L.U. protest monitors witnessed violent arrests, protester injuries, and even arrests of credentialed members of the press.”

She added: “The continual pattern of N.Y.P.D. aggression against pro-Palestine demonstrators raises important questions about the city’s disparate treatment of speakers based on their message.”

Abdullah Akl, an organizer with Within Our Lifetime, the pro-Palestinian group that organized the protests, said the response took organizers aback, particularly for a demonstration that occurs every year in Bay Ridge and is known to be frequented by families with children.

“It was really an unusual and unprecedented response,” Mr. Akl said.

He said he witnessed two men being pushed to the ground. One of them can be seen in a video with blood streaming down the side of his face. Nerdeen Kiswani, chair of Within Our Lifetime, said three protesters — including the two who can be seen being punched — were treated for their injuries at hospitals.

The Police Department has arrested hundreds of demonstrators since street protests began shortly after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. The protests have been largely peaceful, with few injuries or violent clashes.

In a turning point, on April 30 officers cleared Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, which had been occupied by protesters for 17 hours. Many officers showed restraint during the arrests, though a handful were filmed pushing and dragging students as they removed them from the building.

On Sunday, Ms. Lieberman said police response to the protests in Bay Ridge underscored the importance of implementing the terms of a $512,000 settlement the civil liberties union and the Legal Aid Society reached with the city this month. The settlement set new terms for how the Police Department manages protests, creating a tiered system that dictates how many officers can be sent to demonstrations and limits the use of the Strategic Response Group. It will take years to put into practice.

The settlement is one of several that stemmed from the George Floyd racial justice protests in 2020. Last year, the city agreed to pay $13.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed unlawful police tactics had violated the rights of demonstrators in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In March, the city agreed to pay $21,500 to each of roughly 300 people who attended another Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 in the Bronx. Those people were penned in by the police, then charged at or beaten with batons, according to a legal settlement.

Andy Newman and Camille Baker contributed reporting.