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Anti-Israel protesters armed with flares marched toward NYPD headquarters late Monday after the number of students arrested at NYU reportedly rose to over 150. Videos of Monday night’s protests show demonstrators holding bright flares over their heads while marching toward One Police Plaza while others waved flags, banged drums and chanted, “Gaza.” Other clips show NYPD officers in riot gear monitoring protesters who chant, “We will free Palestine, within our lifetime.” By late Monday, more than 150 protesters had been arrested as the NYU camp was broken up, sources told PIX 11. Sources told The Post that when the tally...

The Orthodox rabbi at Columbia University and Barnard College sent a message recommending Jewish students leave campus and go home, as anti-Israel agitators have continued an "encampment" on campus and participants were caught on camera espousing full-on support for terrorism and supporting violence towards Jewish students. In a WhatsApp message sent to hundreds before the start of Passover, Rabbi Elie Buechler, director of OU-LJIC at Columbia/Barnard, told students to leave "as soon as possible" until the situation improves, noting that "what we are witnessing in and around campus is terrible and tragic." "The events of the last few days, especially...

Fifty women have been randomly attacked by strangers so far this year in the lower half of Manhattan, an NYPD official said. “The trend that I’m getting from the people that we’re arresting, the majority of them are homeless, the majority of them seem like they need some kind of help with mental illness,” Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at One Police Plaza Tuesday. Most of the attacks don’t appear to be copycats and cops don’t consider them a trend, Kenny said.

More than 200 of New York’s Finest packed a Queens courtroom Monday as two career criminals were indicted in the slaying of hero cop Jonathan Diller during a traffic stop — with prosecutors revealing that the driver admitted, “I shoot people.” Lindy Jones — who was behind the wheel of the Kia Soul stopped by cops when his passenger, Guy Rivera, allegedly opened fire on Diller last week — didn’t show any emotion as prosecutors said he faces four counts of felony gun possession. ... Rivera, who wasn’t in court and remains hospitalized with a gunshot wound, was indicted on...

The love between slain New York cop Jonathan Diller and his 29-year-old wife, Stephanie, had listeners in the church and across the nation weeping alongside her as she eulogized her husband as “absolutely my soulmate,” during his funeral on Saturday. But the most gut-wrenching moment of the funeral was the sight of Diller’s one-year-old son reaching out toward the flag-draped casket of his father as it was lowered into the hearse, according to the New York Post. Ryan’s mother tenderly kissed his forehead, comforting the child, who will never remember how much his father loved him.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she “understands” why slain NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller’s family is “outraged,” but insisted Saturday she was never told to leave the hero cop’s wake — despite being abruptly told “his blood is on your hands.” “I would do it again, and that’s my job,” said Hochul, defending her decision to attend Diller’s wake a day earlier on Long Island. “We were told the family is welcoming. We always check, and they said to come, and I went. And no one told me to leave,” Hochul also told Politico during an Easter event at the governor’s mansion...

Former President Donald Trump posted a video on social media showing a hog-tied President Joe Biden painted on the tailgate of a passing truck. The video was posted from Trump's ride back to his private jet after attending the wake of slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, who was murdered on duty earlier this week. The clip, posted to Trump's Truth Social account with only a caption showing the date and that it was on Long Island, was set to mournful piano as cars displaying their love for Trump rode down the highway. A rendering of the current president hog-tied was...

https://www.odmp.org/officer/26983-police-officer-jonathan-diller More to follow pending the media handling of this incident

New York Governor Kathy Hochul was asked to leave the wake for murdered NYPD officer Jonathan Diller on Friday afternoon, according to reports. Hochul walked away as she was confronted by an unknown person after spending only ten minutes at the Massapequa Funeral Home on Long Island, the New York Post reported. The governor was scheduled to pay her respects on the second day of viewings for Diller, a New York Police Department officer who was allegedly shot and killed by suspect Guy Rivera, 34, on Monday evening. After Hochul arrived at the funeral home around 1.45 pm on Friday,...

Never Trumper Bill Kristol lamented the bad optics for Democrats as President Joe Biden chose to go to a multi-million dollar fundraiser in New York City hosted by Hollywood celebrities while former President Donald Trump attended a wake for a young New York City police officer killed on duty. “An unfortunate day politically for the Democrats,” Kristol posted on X.

As crimes by illegals skyrockets across the country the New York Police Dept. (NYPD) has begun posting notices to citizens to be aware of migrant pick pocket gangs roaming the Big Apple. A recent post by Viral News NYC showed video of an NYPD electronic billboard truck warning residents to be aware of their surroundings and belongings. “Times Square NYC,” the account wrote, “A NYPD billboard truck saying ‘BEWARE KF PICKPOCKETS,’ for the past year and a half, there has been an uptick of pickpocketing in the midtown Manhattan area. Migrants have set up multiple pickpocketing crews throughout the city,...

Thursday night offered the chance to have glam photographer snap you slapping hands with President Biden, or predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, for a donation of a mere $100,000 to Biden’s re-election campaign: Pretty posh for the supposed party of the working class... With tickets ranging up to $500,000 a pop, the campaign reportedly pulled in $25 million before the doors even opened, a nice addition to the $155 million the Biden-Harris effort has in hand, en route to likely raising a billion or two total (not counting soft, dark and other off-the record money). That’s a lot of...

Several waves of protesters disrupted President Biden’s grandiose fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall Thursday, where he kicked it with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to raise cash and enthusiasm for his 2024 re-election bid. One demonstrator, a woman blowing a whistle, holding a “war pig” sign and warning of “nuclear war with Russia,” was removed from the lavish New York City event, dubbed by the 81-year-old president as a “grassroots fundraiser.” The first interruption was quickly followed by booing and whistling and two other waves of protests related to Biden’s support for Israel’s war against Hamas. “Shame...

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is ripping the current president and two former presidents for disrespecting a slain New York City police officer by skipping his wake to instead live it up in the Big Apple at a glitzy fundraiser.As Breitbart News reported on Thursday, Trump is set to attend the wake of Officer Jonathan Diller, who was killed during a traffic stop when a criminal shot him below his bulletproof vest. While Trump—the presumptive Republican nominee for president in 2024—attends the wake for Officer Diller, Democrat President Joe Biden has different plans for Thursday. Biden will join former Democrat...

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A young NYPD officer was killed in broad daylight by a career criminal who had no business living free thanks to the city’s lawless crime policies. As the New York Post reported, 31-year-old Jonathan Diller was fatally shot in the stomach after police tried to remove a suspect from the passenger’s side of a vehicle late Monday afternoon. The senseless shooting happened around 5:50 p.m. in Queens after cops approached a dark gray Kia Soul that was illegally parked in front of a metered zone. Diller screamed he had been “hit” after the suspect opened fire. Diller was then rushed...

A man wielding scissors was shot by police in Queens Wednesday afternoon, according to police and sources. NYPD officers responded to a report of an emotionally disturbed person on 103rd Street in the Ozone Park section of Queens. The man was shot by officers, sources told The Post. No shots were fired at officers and no police were injured. The man’s condition following the shooting was not immediately known.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing serious allegations of sexual assault dating back to 1993. The accusations come from a lawsuit filed against the mayor by a former NYPD aide and could cause some significant problems for Adams. At the heart of this legal action is a complaint filed under the Adult Survivors Act, a law that reopened the window for pursuing justice for past sexual assault cases that exceeded the statute of limitations.The plaintiff, once an administrative aide for the police department’s transit division, claims Adams assaulted her in a vacant lot after she sought his advice...

When anti-Israel activists swarmed the plant that prints The New York Times, The Post and other newspapers the other day, aiming to stop the papers’ distribution, cops passed on making arrests because this was supposedly “peaceful protest.” No: It was a forceful attack on a private enterprise (on private property, too), and on the freedom of the press. But city government refuses to protect the peace, and has even signed away its ability to restrain out-of-control “protest” mobs. Heck, City Hall agreed to pay $13 million to “protesters” — nearly $10K per rioter — arrested during the looting, arson, and...

Little Julian Galloway is fighting cancer — just like his heroes fight crime. The cop-obsessed terminally-ill 8-year-old boy has been battling the brutal disease for more than half of his life, with a recent scan revealing new tumors, and that the existing ones on his brain were growing. But Julian, of Texas, was granted brief respite Tuesday — and given rare reasons to smile — as he launched into a whirlwind tour of the Big Apple organized by a non-profit police foundation. “We’ve been at it [for] four-and-a-half years battling cancer. It’s been absolute hell, up and down, beating it,...