Hip-Hop Fans Are Angrier Than Usual

Written by Kari Milchman on . Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

Today in front of Universal Records on Lexington Ave., hip-hop fans gathered to protest the genre’s increased emphasis on violence. But oddly enough, the demonstrators got pretty brutal themselves, smashing poor CDs and shredding defenseless T-shirts. The outrage comes in the wake of an incident last week in which Rapper Tony Yayo of 50 Cent’s
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Rev. Al Brings Up Det. Oliver’s Murky Past

Written by Kari Milchman on . Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

Yesterday, The Rev. Al Sharpton accused the NYPD of "concealing" important information regarding a prior excessive force complaint against Det. Michael Oliver, the man who fired all 22 shots that hit Sean Bell and his friends. In addition, Sharpton brought up Oliver’s allegedly racist comments made during the 1995 arrest of an African cab driver,
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