A subway commuter who helped an ex-Marine restrain an agitated man aboard a Manhattan subway last year testified that he tried to convince the veteran to loosen his grip around the man’s neck.

Former President Donald Trump invited two rappers on stage at his recent rally who have been charged in a sweeping gang case.

Prosecutors in Brooklyn are for the first time retrying a long-ago case they won with the help of a former homicide detective whose work has been questioned.

Three men who spent decades in prison have been cleared in the killing of a clerk who was set on fire in a subway toll booth in New York's violent 1990s.

NEW YORK A New York City police officer who was caught on video violently shoving a woman to the ground during a protest over the death of George Floyd was charged Tuesday with assault and other counts, prosecutors announced. "We will say it again: New York City police officers have been abandoned by our leadership. U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries called for D'Andraia's firing and praised the reassignment of his commanding officer, who witnessed the shoving and did not intervene. Violent police officers who brutalize civilians must be held accountable for their behavior, Jeffries, a Democrat, said in a statement. The shoving in Brooklyn happened a day before a separate clash between police and protesters in which another NYPD officer was seen pulling a demonstrators mask down and using pepper spray.

The district attorney said the case resulted in New York passing a law prohibiting police officers from having sex with people in custody, closing a loophole that allowed police to claim the sex was consensual. "The injustice was the DA's office positioning this as a rape case," he said. The detectives' DNA was recovered from the woman, prosecutor saysThe former detectives voluntarily resigned from the NYPD in November 2017. They were on-duty in a Dodge Caravan as part of a team of plainclothes detectives conducting a buy and bust operation, according to the district attorney. The district attorney said the woman had sexual intercourse with Martins and performed a sex act on Hall.

Alex Goodlett/Getty ImagesNEW YORK - Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for gun possession, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Monday. Telfair was convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in April after officers found a gun in his car during a 2017 traffic stop. The officers who pulled Telfair over reported smelling the odor of marijuana and observed a lit marijuana cigarette in the car's console, the release from the district attorney's office said. After Telfair and a male passenger were arrested, officers searched the vehicle and recovered a loaded .45 caliber gun in the console, the district attorney's office said. "This defendant exercised his right to a jury trial and was found guilty of possessing an illegal firearm," Gonzalez said in a statement.

People pray beside crosses with the names of those slain in the El Paso Walmart shooting. (CNN) - With Americans still processing last weekend's mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, CNN will hold a town hall-style event on Wednesday night to explore what can be done about the country's gun violence. In "America Under Assault: The Gun Crisis," CNN's Chris Cuomo will moderate a discussion with politicians and others from across the political spectrum. Among the topics to be discussed are gun violence, white nationalism, hate crimes, and what new gun legislation could come from this weekend's shootings. Eric Gonzalez, the Brooklyn district attorney whose brother was killed in gun violence in 1996.