Several thousand people demonstrated on New York’s Staten Island Saturday to protest the death of a black man placed in a chokehold by police. Eric Garner, 43, a father of six who was suspected of ...

Former Marine Daniel Penny was acquitted on Monday in the death of a street performer on the New York subway. Penny was facing a single charge of criminally negligent homicide after the judge ...

Jury selection kicked off Friday in Bronx Supreme Court for NYPD Officer Omar Habib, a case that is putting both one patrol cop and New York City’s chokehold rules under a bright courtroom spotlight.

One week after violence in Ferguson, New York is anxiously bracing for a separate grand jury decision in another racially charged case involving a white police officer and the death of an ...