Here is Deputy Commissioner of Public Information telling reporters it was a 'joint decision' to not inform press than an officer accidentally fired his Glock handgun during the raid of Columbia University.

Did Mayor Eric Adams weigh in?

'This is a police department incident, why are you bringing in the mayor?'

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 NYPD Officer Fired Gun Inside Columbia’s Hamilton Hall Raid, Manhattan DA Confirms

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A judicial candidate in Queens running as a Democrat has twice seemingly called for President Biden's execution. She also appears to have spread a number of conspiracy theories championed by the far-right. queenseagle.com/all/2024/5/2/d…

On @npr, Mayor Adams now says that about 40% at Columbia and CUNY protests were not students.

Asked on MSNBC how many non-students or 'outside agitators' were are Columbia, Mayor Eric Adams says NYPD terror experts gave two names but 'I choose not to give notoriety to people like that.' He says NYPD will give more, but they haven't released any data or numbers on non-students

Council members sharply questioned one of Mayor Eric Adams's top advisers today over the need for a new online engagement form which City Hall is requiring lawmakers at all levels to complete in order to meet with agency heads and executive staff.
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City Council members sharply questioned one of Mayor Eric Adams' top advisers Wednesday over the need for a new online engagement form which City Hall is requiring lawmakers at all levels to complete in order to meet with agency heads and executive staff. amny.com/news/city-coun…

Worth noting that the NYPD has yet to release any information or data on the so-called 'outside agitators' or which of those arrested aren't students, but have edited this short film from the protests

Mayor Eric Adams Lincoln Restler 'I have 30,000 interns' now working across city government, says Gale A. Brewer in what is probably only a slight exaggeration.

Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday signed legislation mandating that the FDNY provide body armor to emergency medical services (EMS) workers and train them in self-defense and de-escalation techniques. amny.com/politics/fdny-…

Faculty rally at 116 and Amsterdam at the gates of Columbia U rn, which is locked down today.

“Wait until the numbers come put from One Police Plaza,” said Rashid Khalidi, a Columbia professor, calling the claims of outside agitators “lies”. “They were all students.”

New York City's roughly 1 million rent-stabilized tenants could see their rents hiked by as much as 6.5%, according to preliminary ranges approved by the city's Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) Tuesday night. amny.com/news/nyc-rent-…

. NEW: A city Department of Investigation probe of mayoral adviser Timothy Pearson has been expanded to include his role in NYPD personnel and promotional matters raised in in two lawsuits accusing him of sexual harassment and retaliation.

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Here is katie honan confronting Deputy Commissioner of Public Information with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that Columbia University itself sold to their students

About 100 people outside Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus supporting the Gaza solidarity encampment that started this morning in the lobby.

NYPD Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Weiner now says the unidentified wife of a man convicted of terrorism wasn't actually part of last night's protests.

She says the woman was on the Columbia campus last week, and that 'we have no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on her part.'

.NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry claims they wanted to keep reporters at a distance during the raid at Columbia last night because of '100s' of reporters 'getting in the way' of the cops shutting down an NYU encampment last week.

katie honan interjects 'there aren't that many reporters'