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- IT TURNS OUT: Javier Rodriguez, the Bronx barber with a $15,000 utility bill, is the unlucky victim of a billing error, according to Con Edison, the city's utility for electric, gas and steam. A spokesman said that the company has been working with him to resolve it.A Bronx barber tells Trump that his energy bills went from $2,100 to $15,000 since Biden and Kamala took over. Trump’s response: “WHAT??”
00:00Readers added contextJavier Rodriguez, the Bronx barber with a $15,000 utility bill, is the unlucky victim of a billing error, according to Con Edison, the city's utility for electric, gas and steam," wrote Southall. "A spokesman said that the company has been working with him to resolve it." rawstory.com/trump-bronx-ba… - Emmanuel Mensah, a private in the Army National Guard, evacuated his six roommates and rescued four neighbors from a deadly Bronx fire. He went back in the building to save more, but wound up among the 12 victims who did not survive:
- BREAKING: The New York City police department's internal affair bureau has recommended misconduct charges against an officer who beat a bystander to an arrest on May 2 and kneeled on his back and neck– a move similar to the one used on George Floyd. Two more also face charges.
- In court to exonerate two men convicted of killing Malcolm X, the Manhattan district attorney makes a stunning revelation: J. Edgar Hoover himself directed the F.B.I. to order multiple witnesses not to tell police or prosecutors that they were in fact Bureau informants.
- If you go out to celebrate or to cry or to carry on, please remember that we are in a pandemic that is killing 1,000 Americans a day. Wear a mask.
- Seven out of every eight people arrested for social distancing offenses in Brooklyn were Black, according to data from the borough prosecutor's office that adds to a debate over whether the enforcement recalls Stop and Frisk practices of the Bloomberg era.
- The thing spoken quietly is that there are law-enforcement officers who support Trump and believe the election was stolen, and some among them won't stand in the way of an attempt to get it back. I have talked to cops up to the rank of chief who share this stance.Uhhhhhhhhhh are you fucking kidding me nytimes.com/live/2021/01/0…
- BREAKING: 304 out of 374 social distancing summones in New York City went to Black and Hispanic people, according to data from the NYPD.
- Two longtime suspects in the murder of Jam Master Jay, one of hip hop's greatest mysteries, have been indicted for murder, federal prosecutors and the NYPD plan to announce Monday:
- Replying to @AshleyAtTimesOn Instagram, Mr. Rodriguez, who spells his first name Javiel, said he complained to Con Edison two months ago and only received a response in mid-September. "They offered me '$50' inconvenience relief until Con Edison made the proper adjustments," he said. HT @collyearjames
- There are so few Black men in New York City's press corp and they are the kind of journalists who have an indispensable perspective that we need in this moment because of their experiences in that identity. And that makes what police did to Tyler so much more outrageous.Lost my glasses and my ankle is in searing pain after NYPD hit me in the face multiple times with riot shields and pushed me to the ground. I was backing away as request, with my hands up. My NYPD-issued press badge was clearly visible. I’m just sitting here crying. This sucks.
- The New York City Council has enough votes to override a potential mayoral veto on a measure to ban police chokeholds and other neck restraints, Speaker Corey Johnson says.
- Replying to @AshleyAtTimesHe shared a bill showing his balance of $13,099.31 with a shutoff warning, and a video scrolling through an online ledger of his bills since January. The "show payments" feature is turned off, so it's unclear how much of his balance was accumulated or new.
