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Asere Bello from Crystal House Against Displacement holding a copy of today's newspaper at the support rally for Akai Gurley the day after Peter Liang's verdict
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A philosophical question: is the world really broken, or do we just see it through our own possibly broken perspectives ... ?
An ancient truck across the street from the historic Maryhill Church was surrounded by the most incredible hodgepodge of objects and structures.
Marbella, in front of some truck service stop shack thingy.
On a strange side note, I think these might be the first available light photos I've taken in awhile. Hunh.
Broken window - great patterns but not such a great story behind it.....my friend came down to his shop one Saturday morning to find some mindless thug had smashed one of the windows.
Police accountability advocates gathered in front of the Bronx DA office in solidarity with Copwatcher Jose LaSalle as he demands that Bronx DA Darcel Clark re-open an investigation on the officers who perjured themselves to falsified charges against Jose LaSalle followed by a march to the Psa7 precinct and demand that the officers involved are fired. The city and the NYPD agreed to pay LaSalle $860,000 on a settlement. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
The elegant glass panels at the near end of the building are regularly smashed by an unholy alliance of neds and hippies; hence the plywood. But it's probably the neds alone who are responsible for lobbing stones onto cars parked near any of the perimeter fences. The 1954 building that this replaced had a beautiful glass wall, lighting the various drawing offices within. Originally, it would have faced the railway, but latterly it was facing a cycle path, from which the residents of Muirhouse would pelt it with stones. By the time the building was demolished, this glass wall was being protected by a huge mesh screen, for all the world like a Police station in Crossmaglen.
The architects of the 2003 building chose glass walls with no screening...
Over a thousand people in Crown Heights, joined the family of Saheed Vassell, an unarmed Black man shot dead by NYPD on Wednesday night; for a memorial rally on April 5, 2018; followed by a march to the NYPD 71 precinct to demand justice and accountability for the killing of for Saheed Vassell. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
The demolition of Sudbury's Uplands middle school has started with Cambridge based Dooson plant's Daewood Solar ZZ5 LCD excavator
This old blue door with a broken window belonged to the Wayside Motel in Grants New Mexico. Motel has been torn down. www.californiatochicago.com insta @calitochicago Facebook California to Chicago
Glass breaks
shards fall
no one gets hurt
thank you.
sharp edges
soft skin
sometimes meet
without tragedy.
thank you.
On June 30, 2017; Keegan Stephan and attorneys, Gideon Orion Oliver and Elena Cohen, held a press conference at the NYS Supreme Court steps in Manhattan. In settlement of a lawsuit brought in August of 2016 by activist Keegan Stephan to reform the NYPD’s Freedom of Information Law (“FOIL”) policies, and seeking records regarding the NYPD’s uses of, and training related to, Long Range Acoustic Devices (“LRADs”), the NYPD has agreed to a Stipulation and Order requiring sweeping changes to the way it handles FOIL requests, as well as disclosure of documents related to its LRAD uses. New York State Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez signed the Stipulation and Order of Settlement and Discontinuance on June 29, 2017.
Over a hundred people joined Ramarley Graham’s family; other families of those killed by the police; members of the Justice Committee; Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ); Black, Jewish leaders and other Jews of Color; Jewish New Yorkers from across the five boroughs; and Black Lives Matter-NY at Grand Central station, for a public action and vigil in conjunction with Beyond The Moment’s National Day of Action on April 4, 2017; followed by a march through midtown Manhattan to demand from the Mayor and the NYPD commissioner more accountability in the Ramarley Graham case and an end to Broken Windows Policing in NYC