Kerry Picket

New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has told members of the NYPD not to turn their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio again at the funeral for Wenjian Liu on Sunday.

During the meetings Mayor Bill de Blasio had with five different New York City police unions on Tuesday, the mayor’s senior aides called top Democratic New York lawmakers on the city and state levels. They urged lawmakers to slam the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch and other officers for turning their backs on the mayor, DNAinfo reported.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may not have thought he was going to get a terribly warm reception at Monday’s NYPD graduation ceremony of incoming rookies, but he probably was not expecting to get booed and heckled during his remarks to the graduating class.

Anti-police protesters plan to disrupt New Year’s Eve celebrations, calling upon activists to agitate in major cities “because business as usual in Amerikkka includes wanton police murder of Black people.”

Breitbart News learned from an NYPD source that officers made no arrests Tuesday night, despite bottles being hurled at police and protesters committing other violations of the law. That’s how Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton wanted it,

New York’s Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) tweeted out that the 81st precinct house received information from a confidential informant that a credible attack was being planned by the Black Guerrilla Family. The alleged plan would have attackers “storm” the 79th

New York State Republican Party leaders are urging Congressman Michael Grimm (R-NY) to resign from office, Breitbart News has learned. “We are looking for Grimm to step down for the good of the party and the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn,” they said. Grimm pleaded guilty today to a felony tax charge of a public corruption case in New York.

“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!” stated Chuck Canterbury, president of the Fraternal Order of Police—the world’s largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers—in a statement released Sunday addressing Saturday’s execution-style murders of NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. Calling Ramos’ and

According to an Instagram screenshot, Brinsley was tracking two officers who were almost 4 miles away from him in Staten Island at 10:44 PM EST since the beginning of December. He thanks a friend of his on Instagram for pointing out the app is not “updated in real time” so it’s not that “reliable.”

Retired NYPD members are discussing ways to keep New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio away from the funerals of recently-murdered NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. One tactic, suggested in a popular law enforcement web forum, instructed officers to

Movie posters of the recently pulled Sony Pictures film The Interview, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, are currently hot sellers on eBay.  Originals of the movie poster are selling for $1,000, while reproductions of the original poster can cost

The Federal Communication Commission is rejecting a petition to deny the license renewal of radio station WWXX-FM, owned by Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, over its broadcast of the term “Redskins.” John Banzhaf filed the the challenge to the station’s

The first talks the Obama administration held with Havana was in July of 2009 in New York City, when CubaNews reported the U.S. is “likely to be anxious to ask Cuban officials for help in curbing a rise in undocumented

Republican Martha McSally beat Democratic incumbent Rep. Ron Barber (D-AZ) on Wednesday after an election recount confirmed the GOP’er had a 167 vote edge over Barber.  According to the AP, the GOP will now have the largest majority ever, with

Not to be outdone by the congressional 1,603 page Cromnibus spending bill, government agencies in Washington added almost as many pages to the Federal Register with new regulations and rules last week alone. The D.C. watchdog organization the Competitive Enterprise

Zacarias Moussaoui, also known as the “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked a South Florida federal judge Wednesday for a transfer to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Associated Press reported.  Moussaoui is serving a life sentence

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave remarks at his office’s annual Christmas party Monday night at the NRSC, and according to an attendee, McConnell said that people overestimate what Republicans can do even though the GOP will have majorities

In the wake of Tuesday’s release of the CIA memo detailing Bush-era interrogators’ methods that extracted information from enemy combatants, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Breitbart News the Obama administration is mirandizing terrorists that the U.S. military is capturing on

Gangs appear to have grown more politically emboldened this past year, as protests have sprouted in response to police shootings of young black males. Gangs organizing with local politicians are not new, as some will point to New York’s Tammany

Dorian Johnson–the witness who originally told police that 18-year-old Ferguson, MO resident Mike Brown had his hands up and pled with then-Officer Darren Wilson “Don’t shoot”–snagged a temporary position, that pays around $8.50 an hour, working for the city of

Majorities are not lasting long as they used to and as of Saturday night’s elections, Barack Obama has just surpassed Harry S. Truman as the U.S. president who presided over the most midterm election defeats in his own party over

Following the re-election defeat of Sen.Mary Landrieu (D-LA) on Saturday night by Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the Republican Party grew their majority in the upper chamber by 9 seats.  This net gain in the Senate, The Hill is reporting, is

NEW YORK, New York–Protesters angry about the no indictment verdict of an NYPD officer who held a black man in a choke hold before he died marched around New York City Wednesday night, shutting down bridges, the Lincoln Tunnel, the

National Action Network’s Reverend Al Sharpton tweeted that he would be attending the White House meetings on Ferguson and law enforcement that President Barack Obama is hosting. In NAN DC Bureau this morning, before heading to meetings on Ferguson and police

Ferguson activists meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House today posted a list of demands they proposed to the president, which include: The federal government using its power to prosecute police officers that kill or abuse people Removing

President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet on Monday with Vice President Joe Biden, his Cabinet, civil rights leaders, and law enforcement officials among others, to discuss the the civil unrest that happened in Ferguson, Missouri.  Riots were set off

“I came to the United States 11 years ago,” said Sam Chow, the owner of On On Chop Suey Restaurant. Chow says he worked as a cook in other establishments and eventually opened up his own restaurant in 2009. That

FERGUSON, Missouri–St. Louis law enforcement is confirming the arrest of 44 individuals on Tuesday night during a second evening of post-grand jury verdict protests in Ferguson.  Although the violence in the Ferguson area was not as intense as Monday night,

Four freelance reporters were robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday night around 8 p.m., when they attempted to shoot video at the Canfield Drive memorial, a street off of West Florissant Avenue, the Daily Riverfront Times reports. Emily Molli, a freelancer

FERGUSON, Missouri—-KMOV-TV reports that the majority of stores that were damaged or completely destroyed during Monday night’s violent riots in Ferguson were minority owned. Fire Departments around the St. Louis County Area put out 25 structural fires caused by vandals

FERGUSON, Missouri–Missouri Governor Jay Nixon called Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder’s charge against him, relating to National Guard deployment in Ferguson on Monday, “absurd.”  Kinder told KTRS on Tuesday morning that he wants to know if the Obama administration, particularly the

Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder tells KTRS‘s McGraw Millhaven and Kelly Jackson that Governor Jay Nixon ignored the Mayor of Ferguson’s desperate pleas last night to send in the National Guard when riots erupted in his town. Kinder adds that Nixon

A13-year-old runaway who is said to have joined the protesters in Ferguson was stated as missing by the St Louis County Police Department on Monday night. According to an “endangered person” advisory from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Avery Gales,

FERGUSON, Missouri—-At least three places have offered themselves up as “sanctuary spaces” to provide food and shelter to protesters following the grand jury announcement as to whether Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson will be indicted on any charges for fatally

FERGUSON, Missouri–Gunfire was first heard by Breitbart News and other media outlets at around 10 PM CST in front of the Ferguson Police Department where angry protesters gathered after news was disclosed that Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson would not