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<content:encoded><![CDATA[A 24-year-old man was shot to death inside a car on a Brooklyn street just a few blocks from where a man was <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/20/man-40-gunned-down-on-brooklyn-street-corner-police/">gunned down a week earlier</a>, police said Sunday.
The latest victim was sitting inside a car near E. 54th St. and Church Ave. in East Flatbush when he was shot multiple times in the abdomen about 8:20 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
Medics rushed the victim to Brookdale University Hospital but he couldn’t be saved. His name was not immediately released.
Police took two people, one carrying a gun, into custody as persons of interest.
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The slaying was the third murder Brooklyn’s 67th Precinct this month.
On April 20, <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/22/man-shot-dead-on-brooklyn-street-was-a-loving-immigrant-dad-wife-exclusive/">40-year-old bodega owner Anthony Lancaster</a> was shot to death on E. 53th St. and Clarkson Ave.
Three days earlier, Gamaliel Oliver, 45, was <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/21/man-shot-dead-in-brooklyn-was-a-beloved-brother-and-father-of-three/">dropped off at Brookdale University Hospital</a> with a fatal gunshot to his abdomen. Police later determined he was gunned down on E. 98th St. near Lenox Road in East Flatbush about an hour earlier.
The precinct has seen <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-067pct.pdf">a jump in </a>homicides this year, with seven slayings through April 21 compared to five by the same point last year. Murders citywide are <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-city.pdf">down more than 18 % so far this year</a> compared to the same period last year.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Manhattan mugger trying to snatch a man’s chain early Sunday shot the victim for putting up a fight — and accidentally blasted his own accomplice, police said.
The pair of crooks confronted the 35-year-old victim as he emerged from a building near 12th Ave. and 50th St. in <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/midtown-north-precinct.page">Hell’s Kitchen.</a> about 4:30 a.m., cops said.
When the victim resisted and one of the bandits shot him in the arm. At some point, the gunman’s 21-year-old accomplice got in the line of fire and was struck in the back and hip, police said.
The wounded crook and his accomplice escaped in a white Honda Accord, where a getaway driver was waiting for them, cops said.
They brought their wounded cohort to NYU Langone Health, where he was listed in stable condition. Charges against him are pending and police have not yet released his name.
Medics took the robbery victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, police said. Cops are trying to determine whether he knows his attackers.
The NYPD’s Midtown North Precinct, where the shooting took place, is dealing with <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-018pct.pdf">a surge of robberies</a> this year, with 61 incidents this year through April 21, compared to 38 in the same time frame last year, a more than 60% spike.
 
 
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<title>Go touch grass: Why Marcus Stroman’s routine includes barefoot strolls in the outfield</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yankees starter Marcus Stroman, as well as Luke Weaver, practices grounding, a calming technique that has some other benefits, according to limited research.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Shortly before a recent start in Toronto, <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stromma01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marcus Stroman</a> emerged from the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/mlb/new-york-yankees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yankees’</a> clubhouse, walked up the dugout stairs, and stepped onto the field without any socks or shoes.
The starting pitcher enjoys taking barefoot strolls in the outfield grass multiple times a week. On this particular day, however, Rogers Centre’s artificial turf had to suffice.
“It works best on grass,” <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/weavelu01.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Luke Weaver</a> told the Daily News of grounding, which he and Stroman incorporate in their routines. “Sometimes we get some turf. It just feels good to get out of your socks, get out of your shoes, and just kind of get some of that sensory type of feel to your feet.”
Grounding is a technique that is meant to reconnect someone with the earth. Also known as earthing, some studies claim it can help with <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflammation, healing, blood flow and sleep</a>, among other benefits.
A quick Google search will tell you that more research needs to be done on grounding, but Weaver and Stroman have bought into what’s already out there. More than anything, though, they just find it peaceful.
“I’m a big believer that in order to be clear out there, you have to be the best version of yourself mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally,” Stroman told The News. “Grounding, I feel like it just kind of coincides with my breathing and meditation practices. All things that are meant to decrease stress and anxiety, which we all deal with and walk through life with. I think everyone’s kind of searching for a calm.
“You come in after walking barefoot, you just feel better. You could feel your whole central nervous system just kind of calming down.”
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While Stroman and Weaver are the only current Yankees who regularly ground themselves, the practice has become more popular in baseball over the years.
Other known participants include the Mets’ Adam Ottavino, Boston’s Triston Casas, St. Louis’ Matt Carpenter and <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/jake-mccarthy-nick-ahmed-unique-pregame-routine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several members of the Arizona Diamondbacks</a>.
“For me, I know that there’s some science behind it, obviously, but I’m not trying to get too wrapped up in that,” Ottavino, a former Yankee, told <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/05/sports/i-want-all-spirits-that-are-here-favor-me-how-adam-ottavino-uses-earthing-help-him-focus-pitching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Boston Globe</a> in 2021. “Basically, I’m just trying to connect with the environment I’m going to be in every day, and it just kind of helps.”
Players spend a lot of time traveling between concrete-covered cities, so they don’t have much time to immerse themselves in green spaces during the season.
Grounding gives them a chance to literally touch grass.
“There’s a lot of research on electrons and different things that are coming from the earth that are just helping give you some more energy or whatever,” Weaver said. “It’s really good for crossing time zones and circadian rhythm. I don’t know if I’m getting all these terms right. There’s a lot of fancy words, but it really is just a nice way to kind of go on a nature walk while walking inside of a baseball field.”
Weaver, a reliever, and Stroman said that they ground whenever they can, not just on the days they’re scheduled to pitch.
Sometimes they’ll walk (and sit) together in the outfield. Other times, they go on solo saunters. Every once in a while, a strength coach will join, and the pitchers will do mobility and bodyweight workouts without shoes confining their feet.
The sessions usually last 10-15 minutes and are often spontaneous.
Weaver, a nine-year veteran on his sixth team, said that he’s been grounding for a while now, as it helps him slow things down mentally. Stroman, meanwhile, adopted the method after tearing his ACL in 2015 while pitching for the Blue Jays.
At that point, the right-hander started diving into his nutrition, mental health and spirituality. He found that grounding aided all of it.
“When I tore my ACL, I went to completely barefoot workouts and walking and really learned about the dynamic of the connection between the ground and your feet. It all starts ground up,” said Stroman, who also grounds away from stadiums. “I feel like we neglect it a lot as we get older. We’re in shoes a lot of the times. But if you take us back to the hunters and gatherers, to that stage, we were barefoot. We were very connected.”
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Stroman added that he’s always looking for the slightest edge. At 5-7, he feels he needs to get the absolute most out of his body. So if he thinks grounding — or anything else — is going to give him even a marginal advantage, he’s going to do it.
<a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/31/yankees-marcus-stroman-houston-astros-mlb-aaron-boone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">His routine includes some other uniquely calming touches</a>, including self-help books, candles and the aforementioned breathing exercises.
“I’ve always gone about things differently than most men,” Stroman acknowledged.
No other Yankees have added those elements to their routines, at least not in plain sight of reporters. Stroman and Weaver, however, have found a common interest when it comes to grounding.
Others are free to join them if they wish.
“It’s not for everyone. I’m the last guy to pressure anybody to do anything, I just know how much good can come from it, and I know how important it is in my routine,” Stroman said. “We play every single day. It’s just a lot of schedule, flying, travel — so much on your mind and body. So it’s just a little something to throw in to take a little stress off.”
Added Weaver: “All I know is it makes you feel better.”
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<title>Father of 6-year-old Bronx girl killed in horrific beating hoping for justice with mother’s arrest: exclusive</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[After a Bronx mother was <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/25/bronx-mom-arrested-in-2023-beating-death-of-6-year-old-daughter/">charged with murder for the beating death</a> of her 6-year-old daughter, the child’s father is reliving the painful ordeal and wondering if his little girl will finally get justice.
Jelayah Eason was found bruised and unconscious in her mother’s E. 165th apartment in the Forest Houses on May 26, 2023. The girl was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, but could not be saved.
Lynija Eason Kumar, 27, was arrested Thursday and charged with murder and manslaughter, police said.
“My daughter was a daddy’s girl,” Ronald Branch told the Daily News Friday by phone. “She was very kindhearted, she loved her father.”
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Eason Kumar was arraigned and remanded on Friday afternoon, said a spokesman for the Bronx District Attorney’s office.
According to the criminal complaint, Jelayah’s mother killed her by hanging her in a closet with her hands and feet tied and “repeatedly striking her daughter about the body with a hard object and leaving her hanging in said closet.”
An autopsy cited in the complaint listed other horrifying details: Jelayah was covered in bruises and scars, both new and healing, had ligature marks on her wrist and was extremely underweight.
“I just had to relive everything all over again,” said the devastated dad. “We don’t know if justice is going to be served until we go to trial.”
Recalling his daughter, Branch said: “Her favorite colors was pink and purple.”
Her cause of death was determined to be child abuse that included restraint and suspension, asphyxia, blunt force injuries and malnourishment, according to the court filing.
Two other children, an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl, were found in the squalid home and also showed signs of abuse and neglect.
The younger girl had “a long, discolored scar to the right side of her waist” and a “widespread discolored rash to her inner thighs and buttocks,” a 2023 court document said.
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The boy had “countless small lacerations in various stages of healing on his back, scalp, arms and legs,” the complaint said. Cops also said he had a cut to his forehead and a deep cut on his scalp.
Court documents described an insect-infested apartment that reeked of rotted food, feces and urine, and cops who responded to a 911 call observed soiled clothing and linen and open containers of food stacked up into piles and on the floor.
Eason Kumar was charged last year with <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/05/27/bronx-mom-of-dead-6-year-old-jalayah-eason-charged-with-endangering-surviving-children-police-source/">endangering the welfare</a> of the surviving children and granted supervised release without bail while Jelayah’s brother and sister were taken into custody by the Administration of Children’s Services
After Jelayah’s death, while she lay in a morgue for months and the other children were in foster care, Branch said he had to take DNA tests to prove he was the father of Jelayah and the boy.
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“I had to fight for paternity, and the judge granted me paternity,” said Branch.
The grieving father was finally able to give Jelayah a funeral on December 2, more than six months after she was killed.
<a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/05/26/child-welfare-officials-had-been-to-squalid-apartment-where-bronx-girl-age-6-was-found-dead-with-bruises-to-wrists-and-torso/">ACS had been involved</a> in the past, called in twice to investigate abuse allegations involving the boy, said a police source.
Branch’s son will be coming to live with him soon, he said.
At the time of Jelayah’s death, neighbors recalled the family’s residence as a house of horrors, with Eason constantly screaming at the little girl and her siblings.
One neighbor described hearing howls from the apartment before cops found Jelayah with bruising and trauma to her chest and neck.
“Last night there was terrible screaming,” recalled neighbor Dennis Rivera in 2023. “It was exactly 4 a.m. The little girl was screaming. I had to go outside. I knew something like this would happen.”
With Rocco Parascandola
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<title>Columbia’s pain & its protests: The heated debate among Jewish faculty</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This essay, signed by more than 100 Jewish faculty members at Columbia University, came in response to 23 other Jewish faculty who published an open letter in the Columbia Daily Spectator student newspaper to University President Minouche Shafik before her congressional testimony under the headline: “Jewish faculty reject the weaponization of antisemitism.”]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[This essay, signed by more than 100 Jewish faculty members at Columbia University, came in response to 23 other Jewish faculty who published an open letter in the <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia Daily Spectator</a> student newspaper to University President Minouche Shafik before her congressional testimony under the headline: “J<a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/10/jewish-faculty-reject-the-weaponization-of-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ewish faculty reject the weaponization of antisemitism</a>.”
Here are a few “inconvenient truths” and “historical injustices” which can help you understand what “weaponizing antisemitism” looks like, both in history, and at Columbia.
We agree strongly with the legitimacy of debate over certain ideas, such as whether anti-Zionism can be separated from antisemitism. However, the common accusation that Jews and others are only using accusations of antisemitism as a “weapon” is a classic antisemitic trope, and a way of silencing Jewish voices and shutting down important debate.
When antisemitism encourages, glorifies, and justifies hate crimes, that is when it has been weaponized. Antisemitism as a weapon looks like <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-rockets-airstrikes-tel-aviv-11fb98655c256d54ecb5329284fc37d2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1,200 people being burned alive, gang raped, and tortured to death on Oct. 7</a>. And it looks like 170 faculty at Columbia saying this genocidal terrorist attack was merely a justifiable “military action” that should be “contextualized.” Antisemitism as a weapon looks like 133 hostages still being held in Gaza. And it looks like hostage posters being ripped down and defaced on the Columbia campus.
Columbia students weaponized antisemitism with posters of skunks with Israeli flags on their backs posted around campus. Weaponized antisemitism looks like a truck parked outside a huge protest at Columbia that claimed “Israel steals Palestinian organs.”
We point out the inconsistency in allowing other minority groups at Columbia — except for Jews — to define harm based on the effect on the listener, rather than the intent of the speaker (even when some members of those minority groups experience harm differently).
Your opinion letter repeatedly downplays the harm that many Jews on campus have experienced. You say you care about keeping students “safe from real harm” while ignoring the numerous cases of faculty using their positions of power to engage in virulent hate speech like calling all Israeli students at Columbia “dangerous” because they served in the IDF, and engaging in other discriminatory actions that have been documented at Columbia for decades.
You minimize the countless and ongoing violations of university rules, such as ignoring university policies on protests, moving barricades, and disrupting invited speakers, events, and shared spaces. You seem to feel there is no “real harm” to Jews who witness protests where people scream “There is no safe place, death to the Zionist state!” “Globalize the Intifada!” and “We don’t want two states, we want all of it!” saying these protesters are simply “advocating for Palestinian liberation.”
You brush off the ongoing appearance of swastikas on walls and virulent posters in dorms, study partners refusing to work with Jews, and other reported and unreported cases of basic antisemitism. You ignore the danger of allowing actual terrorists to speak on campus without consequence.
You use the “As a Jew” argument to claim that your voices have not been heard, but ignore when other Jews are silenced, such as when Jewish and Israeli students and faculty who disagree with anti-Zionist views are unwelcome and ostracized.
For example, you don’t object to the <a href="https://cuapartheiddivest.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CUAD BDS</a> resolutions, which are inconsistent with intellectual pluralism by seeking to weaponize university institutions against Zionism (as opposed to having a debate over the question), and you don’t mention the initial rejection of the Law School’s “Law Students Against Antisemitism” because of their use of the <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IHRA definition of antisemitism</a>.
You use the <a href="https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerusalem Definition of Antisemitism</a>, but it is the IHRA Definition which has been accepted by more than 1,000 global entities including the United States government, 42 other countries, and 31 states including New York.
We wish that Columbia had been more effective at preventing physical and verbal attacks, harassment, death threats, and ongoing terrifying disruptions on campus, so that a congressional investigation, two lawsuits, and a U.S. Department of Education Investigation would not have been necessary.
Dear colleagues, you are still our family. We hope your hearts are big enough to have empathy for the pain of both Jews and Palestinians, and your minds are open enough to engage in meaningful and constructive dialogue about our shared future.
We are certain Columbia can become a place where it is safe for Jews to express our diverse identities proudly, without silencing each other. We likely have many shared Jewish values, one of which is the mission to defend the oppressed and bring light onto the world. Let’s come together to celebrate our shared (if not painful) history and values and find a common way to end all forms of oppression and hatred.
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Barnard students remain encamped on Columbia University’s lawn Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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<title>Columbia’s pain & its protests: Reuniting a campus community that’s been split</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stanley S. Litow]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wednesday was my last class this semester teaching at Columbia University, and I witnessed our campus disruption firsthand. The president of Columbia and university presidents across New York, around the U.S. and globally have a daunting challenge. They need to ensure the safety of all students, faculty and administrators on campus while also preserving free speech.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Wednesday was my last class this semester teaching at <a href="https://www.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University</a>, and I witnessed our campus disruption firsthand. The president of Columbia and university presidents across New York, around the U.S. and globally have a daunting challenge. They need to ensure the safety of all students, faculty and administrators on campus while also preserving free speech.
Of course, free speech should not include the right to expound hate speech whether it targets individuals based on their race, gender or ethnicity, or disrupts safety on campus. Clearly the rhetoric and actions on campus need to be dialed down, and external forces discouraged from involvement in campus life, leaving the key task of restoration of order to the college and university community. This will be difficult but it is not beyond our ability to achieve
This is hardly the first time a large-scale dispute has led to campus disruption. When I began my public service career working for Mayor John Lindsay in 1969, campus disruption due to the Vietnam War and the civil rights struggle was common and while things were contentious, we managed to get through the challenge and bring forces with differing views together recognizing that people can have different views but they need to be respectful of those on the other side.
As a member of the <a href="https://www.suny.edu/about/leadership/board-of-trustees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Board of Trustees at the State University of New York</a> I know firsthand that our education institutions have the ability to respectfully manage differences of opinion, in the public interest. However they can’t do this alone. They need and must have the full support of the community.
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Having the <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaker of the House of Representatives</a> on Columbia’s campus, calling for the resignation of Columbia’s president, who has been acting in good faith, may be good political theater, and appeal to some political forces but it is hardly helpful to the Columbia or New York community.
More than a half century since a Columbia campus disruption was front page news, there have been other events that led to demonstrations on college campuses. And hopefully we have learned and will continue to learn, some lessons that can be applied in our behavior going forward
First and foremost is to make sure that all demonstrations on college campuses are peaceful and respectful. This is nonnegotiable. That means that any and all hate speech is totally unacceptable, and that means antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism or sexism can’t be tolerated and violence of any kind is equally unacceptable.
Everyone in the college community needs to feel safe. If that means restricting access to campus only to students, faculty and administrators, it may be a necessary requirement and may need to be enforced. To accomplish this goal all postsecondary institutions from the top on down, need to engage all their key stakeholders in a collaborative effort to make things work out successfully.
And surrounding communities need to be equally supportive as well. Our colleges and universities are integral parts of our communities and they can’t be maligned. They must be a part of the solution to this crisis.
We are approaching college graduation season, something those involved will remember for decades, and all students and their families have a right to expect that they can celebrate student achievement in an appropriate, and peaceful fashion without any fear. For those who incorrectly opine that “college doesn’t matter” this season’s graduates know that is not true.
College matters now more than ever. And it is the responsibility of all of us to guarantee their success. Let’s all get together and make sure that graduations are what students and their families expect and deserve. Our higher education institutions are critical to the functioning of society and they must be respected and supported. Despite and perhaps because of differences. And not just by some, by all.
Any undermining of the importance of equitable and effective education is a huge mistake. As we move collectively to address the challenge before us let’s not undermine the postsecondary institutions that are critical to economic and social stability and improvement
Having different views about politics is built into New Yorkers’ DNA. But if New York reinforces and supports efforts to bring civility into the way in which our colleges and universities deal with the current political landscape, as has been the case with so many other issues, New York can and will be the model for communities across the nation and around the world. This is not an opportunity to divide. This is an opportunity to get together. To dial down the rhetoric and support our community.
Litow is professor of the practice at Duke University.
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<title>Weinstein decision was the just ruling</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul R. Townsend]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Harvey Weinstein is a narcissistic, sexual abuser. It was a poorly kept secret that powerful movie producers would wield their influence concerning choice roles and career advancement over attractive young women by coercing them into undesired and degrading sexual intimacy. It was also widely rumored that Weinstein was chief among them.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Harvey Weinstein is a narcissistic, sexual abuser. It was a poorly kept secret that powerful movie producers would wield their influence concerning choice roles and career advancement over attractive young women by coercing them into undesired and degrading sexual intimacy. It was also widely rumored that Weinstein was chief among them.
But in the throws of the #MeToo movement, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sexual-misconduct/harvey-weinstein-will-not-testify-new-york-grand-jury-n878576" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Weinstein was indicted by a New York County grand jury</a>, put on trial in Manhattan, and ultimately convicted of rape, among other crimes.
Last week, however, the New York Court of Appeals reversed that conviction in a <a href="https://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/Decisions/2024/Apr24/24opn24-Decision.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highly controversial 4-3 decision</a>. The majority ruled that the trial judge, James Burke, made certain critical errors which resulted in Weinstein being denied a fair trial. The most egregious of these was admitting testimony from women who were not the actual victims in the case. Burke permitted them to testify concerning all the horrible things Weinstein did to them as well.
This ruling caused a significant stir in the New York legal scene. It is a foundational principle in the practice of criminal law that prosecutors may not introduce evidence for the purpose of showing the jury that the defendant is a bad person.
A person is tried for the specific crimes he is charged with, and introducing evidence of other bad acts can lead to the denial of a fair trial. There is an inherent risk that the jury will either simply see the defendant as immoral and convict regardless of the charged crimes, or that the jury will get confused about which bad acts are the subject of the actual charges. Either way, this “propensity” evidence is inadmissible under the rules of evidence.
There are limited circumstances where prior immoral or criminal acts may be properly admitted, but they must fit into narrow categories of permissible uses, and they cannot ever be used to assassinate a defendant’s character. In this particular case, the <a href="https://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Court of Appeals</a> determined that the Weinstein prosecutors could not plausibly claim that introducing the testimony of other women who claimed Weinstein had abused them fit into any acceptable group and it was therefore reversible error to permit them to testify.
The subtext of the decision is that Burke was a little too keen to thumb the scales towards his preferred outcome. This is a constant danger in the court system, and one of the reasons that selection of judges is such an important function.
Criminal defendants run a wide gamut. A battered woman who snaps and kills an abusive partner may come across as sympathetic, while a powerful man who uses his influence to strong-arm non-consensual sexual contact from those under his shadow is unlikely to trigger much pity.
It is easy for a casual observer to condemn a Weinstein, to cheer a mild flexion of legal norms to put a monster away. The general public does not have the same responsibility as the court system as it relates to the protection of rights, even a monster’s rights.
The lead prosecutor at the Weinstein trial, Joan Illuzzi, knew better. The job of a prosecutor is to seek justice, and that never means breaking the rules to get a conviction. She was clearly in the wrong. But more culpability lies with the arbiter of what evidence is admissible. Burke’s role was to ensure a fair trial. He was not to rule with bias or favor, nor let any personal feelings impact his decisions on matters of the law.
When judges abandon impartiality because of the high profile immorality of a defendant in their courtroom, it threatens the entire system. Rights are only truly protected when they are protected evenly among all of us. There is no situation under a rule of law where bending the rules to get the bad guy does not cause, at a minimum, tiny fractures in the structure.
That is why the Court of Appeals decision is not only correct, but incredibly important. The bastion of New York legal authority looked at Weinstein’s trial and was able to separate how truly despicable a person he is from the abrogation of his rights.
While rank and file New Yorkers may be displeased that Weinstein’s New York conviction was reversed, this was a necessary result for the rule of law and a reassuring statement that the Court of Appeals is still able to apply the bedrock principles of our system without regard for who is sitting at the defense table.
Townsend is a partner at the criminal defense firm Robert C. Gottlieb & Associates and the creator/host of the legal podcast “<a href="https://insummation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Summation – The Final Word</a>.”
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<title>Wounding mayoral control: Albany grudgingly grants a few more years to keeping schools accountable</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 08:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Do they sell “Thank You for Nothing” cards? That’s what Mayor Adams and Chancellor David Banks should send to the Legislature after their too-clever-by-half maneuver extending mayoral control over the public school system, which some are counting as a victory for the city.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Do they sell “Thank You for Nothing” cards? That’s what Mayor Adams and Chancellor David Banks should send to the Legislature after their <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/19/win-for-nyc-mayor-adams-as-lawmakers-agree-to-extend-mayoral-control-of-nyc-schools/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">too-clever-by-half maneuver extending mayoral control over the public school system</a>, which some are counting as a victory for the city.
What is broadly called “mayoral control” is not really that. It’s placing accountability for the nation’s largest school system, one of the most important and expensive functions of local government, in the hands of the city’s top elected official — the person chosen by more New Yorkers than any other, in the highest-profile, highest-information election.
Indeed, giving the mayor the ability to choose who leads the <a href="https://www.schools.nyc.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Education Department</a>, and giving that individual the power to set policy without lots of other elected or appointed officials meddling, is the best approximation of popular control we can think of. That’s why nobody questions giving the mayor control over the Parks Department or Sanitation Department or Police Department or Health Department, all of which touch the lives of millions of New Yorkers.
The old Board of Education, to pick just one example of a model that some seem to think is more democratic, consisted of seven members appointed variously by five borough presidents and the mayor, with nobody wielding majority authority. Those seven officials with a range of allegiances chose the chancellor and set the policy, and 32 hyperlocal, supposedly democratic community school boards picked by tiny numbers of voters also had a significant role.
Actual public participation in this system was a farce. Ergo, the status quo (and the teachers union) won almost every battle. New York is leaning back into farcical territory with the mayoral control reforms now on the books.
The <a href="https://www.schools.nyc.gov/get-involved/families/panel-for-education-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Panel for Educational Policy</a>, the board that votes on major proposals and approves major contracts, will grow by one member from 23 to 24, giving the mayor, who gets 13 picks, an even slimmer majority than he already has. And now, the chair will have to be picked from a list chosen by other officials including state Senate and Assembly leaders — who could be from Binghamton or Buffalo, and who represent 300,000 and 130,000 New Yorkers each, respectively — and the appointed head of the state’s Board of Regents, who could hail from Suffolk or Schoharie County. This is a step forward for public accountability how?
Also under the deal, the city will be forced to make firmer commitments to comply with a terrible state law mandating smaller class sizes, further tying the hands of principals and education leaders who want reasonable flexibility to manage and balance resources. Never mind that public school enrollment <a href="https://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/publicschool.html#student-demographics-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been falling citywide</a>.
And rather than extend the authority indefinitely, which is how long it should be granted (the Legislature always has the power to change the laws if and when it feels it must), or four years as Gov. Hochul sought, lawmakers gave the mayor two more years, ensuring that he’ll have to come begging back again for the right to run the schools.
To borrow from Winston Churchill, mayoral control isn’t perfect, but it’s better than any other system that’s been tried. Since it’s been in place, graduation rates are way up, as are test scores. For chipping away at it, thank you for nothing, Albany.
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<title>Not teaching speech: University crackdowns are a cop-out</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[On university campuses across America, students are getting a hands-on lesson in speech repression as their administrators respond to their pro-Palestinian organizing by calling in the cavalry almost immediately.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[On university campuses across America, students are getting a hands-on lesson in speech repression as their administrators respond to their pro-Palestinian organizing by calling in the cavalry almost immediately.
It’s useful here to draw a line between the consequence of measured, administrative, intra-university action and the consequence of police response and arrest. A student who makes comments that could be perceived as threatening or harassing other students should be the focus of a disciplinary hearing where administrators examine the evidence and the students’ conduct history and so on with violators facing campus punishment, like suspension.
Then there is calling in the cops to make arrests of individual students as trespassers or large roundups with mass arrests.
At Emory University, police <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/cop-slammed-emory-professor-caroline-fohlins-head-into-concrete-then-charged-her-with-battery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">violently arrested a professor</a> who had knelt down beside a student being arrested, and who had not touched the student or the cops or otherwise done anything threatening. After officers grabbed her, it was she who was charged with battery.
Dozens were arrested at the public, First Amendment-bound campus of the University of Texas at Austin, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/university-of-texas-austin-campus-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including a local TV photographer</a> who was covering the situation. At many more campuses around the country, students and faculty have been arrested for, essentially, sitting around and making a political opinion known.
Here in New York, Columbia has recognized that inviting in the NYPD to clear the initial tent city was a mistake <a href="https://president.columbia.edu/news/statement-david-greenwald-claire-shipman-minouche-shafik-and-angela-olinto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and Friday said</a> “that to bring back the NYPD at this time would be counterproductive, further inflaming what is happening on campus, and drawing thousands to our doorstep who would threaten our community.”
University administrators have justified arrests by pointing to antisemitic incidents. This avoids the difficult work of managing competing constituencies and interests on campus. Calling the cops is in effect a cop-out, an abdication of universities’ role as clearinghouses of debate and ideas. Memories of police responses to campus protests past can obscure the fact that this has not always been the first resort. Now, student demonstrations barely have enough time to get set up before the riot officers start arriving.
It’s an anti-speech strategy and an ineffective one at that, in that it only makes students more militant and determined; had the original encampment at Columbia been allowed to continue for the few remaining weeks until the end of the semester, it would have generated some headlines. Instead, Columbia’s almost immediate crackdown has spurred encampments all around the country, and grown that university’s own.
Inevitably, there will be those who accuse us of turning a blind eye towards the antisemitism that infects some of the protests, having apparently not read <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/24/when-protest-turns-to-hatred-theres-far-too-much-antisemitism-in-the-free-palestine-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">any other of this board’s editorials</a>. We believe that the student demonstrators are wrong in calling for a boycott of Israel, which is the objective of many, if not all, of the encampments. What we do support is a commitment to robust speech protections on campus — a position that, by the way, many of those cheering on the crackdowns at one point or another have also claimed to hold.
Universities can deal with truly threatening or harassing student behavior with investigations, suspensions and expulsion if need be — the tools that already exist for this. Leave the cops for the crimes, not the thought crimes.
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<title>Readers sound off on student protest, Biden’s leadership and police firearms training</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 07:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lackawaxen, Pa.: In attempting to placate too many interests, the April 24 editorial “When protest turns to hatred” became a travesty. Its only truth lies in the sad recognition that antisemitism survives. But, except as a weapon of insult, that form of racism had little to do with the Columbia University protests, which are a response to the genocide waged against the Palestinian people, which is “horrendous” but not a "lie.”]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>The kids are alright — because they are right</h4>
Lackawaxen, Pa.: In attempting to placate too many interests, the April 24 editorial “<a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/24/when-protest-turns-to-hatred-theres-far-too-much-antisemitism-in-the-free-palestine-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When protest turns to hatred</a>” became a travesty. Its only truth lies in the sad recognition that antisemitism survives. But, except as a weapon of insult, that form of racism had little to do with the Columbia University protests, which are a response to the genocide waged against the Palestinian people, which is “horrendous” but not a “lie.”
Israel, if any religious state should be allowed to exist, at least should not have been established where Jews were given political power over a Muslim majority. So, in principle, the pro-Palestinians are correct that Israel should go. But in the real world, the Zionist state is not going anywhere, so the Arabs need to get together with the Jews and figure out a solution. Ideally, that solution would enable both Israelis and Palestinians to travel anywhere within the former Mandatory Palestine.
Although it may be an affront to self-determination, the Palestinians’ apparent preference for decentralized, tribal government is not going to work, so the UN should reinstitute a mandate over the territory allocated to them until they are capable of self-governance. Paternalistic, but unavoidable. Israel should pick up the tab for reconstruction.
Students, especially those of privilege like Columbians, should have the opportunity to express moral outrage, since they may not get another chance to do so. But they should realize that the university is no longer a student-teacher enterprise. It’s just another corporation, so it may lose donors, and sushi may have to be removed from the dining hall menu. John A. MacKinnon
<h4>Classless</h4>
Bronx: I totally disapprove of Benjamin Netanyahu’s scorched-earth destruction of Gaza. What Hamas did was horrendous and inhuman, however, Netanyahu’s response of killing at least 30,000 Gazans, mostly women and children, is equally deplorable. This brings us to the protest at Columbia. Freedom of speech does not include threats of violence, intimidation or infringing on the rights of students who want to attend classes in a quiet learning environment, which they so costly paid for. As a retired teacher and administrator, I did not give up on disruptive students, but I made certain that they did not prevent learning for students who came to school eager to learn. Where was the collegiate uproar when genocide was happening in many African countries? Gilbert M. Lane
<h4>Intro to protesting</h4>
Whitestone: The anti-student protesters may have trouble wrapping their minds around this, but people protest when they feel that their own leaders are not listening to them, not when anybody anywhere does something they don’t like. President Biden arms Israel and Israel kills civilians, so students protest their government’s policy, as well as their school’s investments in weapons manufacturers. What the hell kind of influence do you think college kids in America have over Hamas leadership? Figure it out! Adrienne Langone
<h4>Uncivil disobedience</h4>
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: To Voicer Blake Fleetwood: You draw reference from the 1968 protests at Columbia to address today’s protests. You state: “Peaceful protests and free speech are the hallmarks of American tradition.” After two or three days of protesting in 1968, the president of Columbia invited the NYPD onto campus to stop its destruction. The first sign was a hanging sheet calling us pigs. I was told of, but did not see, the burning of an American flag. As we entered the campus, we were pelted by bottles. Once inside, I saw the destruction to equipment and furniture, rooms with small fires, etc. I was one of the pigs (detectives — pride, integrity, guts) investigating a group called Students for a Democratic Society (Mark Rudd, who would evolve into the bombmaking Weathermen). You and I were both there, yet our memories differ as to a peaceful protest. Randy Jurgensen
<h4>It’s on them</h4>
Williamsville, N.Y.: Voicer Steven Davies misrepresents Israel’s goals and methods in Gaza. It will take many years to denazify the civilian population of Gaza, which is among the most antisemitic peoples on the face of the Earth; and contrary to Davies, there were no expectations that the IDF would be hailed as liberators in Gaza. Davies is addressing his concerns about destruction in Gaza to the wrong party. Hamas chose to embed terrorists and their infrastructure in civilian areas, and all resultant destruction in those areas is therefore the fault of Hamas. Daniel H. Trigoboff
<h4>Robotic</h4>
Pine Plains, N.Y.: Do we have any proof that President Biden is actually a living human being? Watching his pathetic performances on TV, he seems to be a robot, and a primitive, low-tech one at that. Joseph McCluskey
<h4>Unpleasant odor</h4>
Brookfield, Conn.: I’m at a loss. I don’t know what’s more ridiculous, Voicer Kevin Hanley’s letter or the fact that you printed it. Not enough intelligent letters that day, I guess. Kevin, if the only fault you can find with Trump is some intestinal distress, you might as well vote for him. Biden’s problems are much more serious. And if noxious odors concern you that much, please close your mouth. I can smell it from here. Fred Schoeneborn
<h4>Internal corrosion</h4>
Hammonton, N.J.: It’s a tough call to figure out who is trying the hardest to destroy America. Certainly, China and Russia are threats, but our own government is proving to be the most destructive. We are being invaded but give money to Ukraine to secure its border. Taxpayer dollars are being given to illegal aliens. Border Patrol is understaffed, but the IRS has expanded to milk citizens as much as possible. We have a choice in November to pick the hated orange man who secured the border or the likable old man whose puppet master will continue to ignore the illegal invasion of this nation. Unfortunately, judging by all these college protests, there are plenty of people who want America destroyed and will vote for that likeable old man, bringing this country to bankruptcy and poverty. William Cook
<h4>No more negativity</h4>
Brooklyn: That carrot-top mistake of a human being has caused havoc in every facet of the words “life and being” that is imaginable to anyone with common sense. Aren’t we all fed up and tired of seeing, reading and hearing all of his repetitious babble in this continuing saga? It’s time to be done with him. Wake up, U.S.A. It’s time to see some bright sunshine and smiles. Marilyn Kanarick
<h4>Uncounted accomplishments</h4>
San Francisco: To Voicer Doug Weinberg: Well, Doug, San Fran smells like the B.S. that you are shoveling. You conveniently glazed right over the Infrastructure and Jobs Act, which is creating thousands of good-paying jobs and getting infrastructure repaired where it’s desperately needed, which the former orangutan president promised but never delivered on. Yeah, talk is cheap. Then there is the CHIPS Act, which I’m guessing you don’t know of. This will have most microchip production done in the U.S. again, producing jobs. And you probably think nothing of gun safety legislation because those of your mindset apparently think we should live in the Wild West. Gun safety is a major issue to the majority of Americans. So, Doug, stick to your position and follow the orange maniac wherever he leads you by the nose. Have a nice day! Jimmy Layton
<h4>Crowd control</h4>
Edgewater, N.J.: Our last president cries that he can not get a fair trial in our midst because he makes us all deranged. Then he appears at photo-ops that seem to be staged by bodega owners, among a few construction workers, and at the tragic funeral of a beloved police officer; and he tells us that people love him everywhere. So, which is it? Jay K. Egelberg
<h4>A real shot</h4>
Holliswood: Voicer Mary Caggiano is a big fan of TV character Barnaby Jones and his ability to shoot his criminal adversaries in the shoulder. Mary, newsflash: It’s a fictional TV show. Actual police officers are trained to aim for center mass, typically the torso, for a number of reasons: increased accuracy, stopping power and a reduced risk to bystanders. Just saying. Gregory W. Chupa
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