Police Arrest 3 in Vandalism of New York Times Building

One person was charged with a hate crime in connection with a social media post that referred to The Times’s executive editor, Joseph Kahn.

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Some Rikers Detainees Are Illegally Isolated, Lawsuit Says

A lawsuit claims that two areas in the New York City jail are designed so that detainees are effectively in solitary confinement, in violation of state law.

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N.Y.C. Watchdog Agency Is Investigating Deaths in Police Custody

Nine people have died this year, about half the toll at this time last year. Advocacy and legal groups say the city is still not doing enough to ensure the safety of its detainees.

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N.Y.C. Man Is at Least Fourth Person to Die in Custody in Just Over a Week

A Turkish-born pedicab driver who was arrested on Friday night was found unconscious and unresponsive in a police station house cell. He later died at Bellevue Hospital.

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Rikers Detainee Becomes Third Person to Die in N.Y.C. Custody in a Week

Days before the death of the man, Jimmy Avila, another detainee was pronounced dead in his cell at the troubled city jail complex, and a third died in police custody.

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Beaten and Choked at a U.N. Mission, Then Arrested by the N.Y.P.D.

Two brothers went to the Egyptian Mission in Manhattan to protest Egypt’s role in keeping aid from reaching Gaza. Video of the violence, which involved mission security guards, has incited rage.

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3 Workers at Rikers Are Suspended After Another Man Dies in Custody

The death of the 29-year-old, who was found in his cell after midnight, is the latest of several at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York.

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New York Prisons Accused of Defying Judge on Solitary Confinement

The illegal practices continued despite a judge’s order last year that corrections officials follow state law on the issue, a civil liberties group said in a court filing.

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Mentally Ill Detainees Are Trapped in Legal Limbo, Lawsuit Says

A suit accuses New York State’s mental health system of delaying treatment to restore people to competency, leaving them to languish on Rikers Island.

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Suit Accuses N.Y.P.D. of Continued Aggression at Protests Over Gaza

The case, brought by civil rights lawyers, asks a judge to issue an order stopping the Police Department from “violently disrupting” pro-Palestinian demonstrations in New York City.

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