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NYPD sent video teams to record Occupy and BLM protests over 400 times

New York City Police Department documents obtained by The Verge show that police camera teams were deployed to hundreds of Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street protests from 2011–2013 and 2016. Originally acquired through a Freedom of Information Law request by New York attorney David Thompson of Stecklow & Thompson, the records are job reports from the NYPD’s Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) that document over 400 instances in which the unit’s video team attended, and sometimes filmed, demonstrations. More important than the records the NYPD turned over, however, are those that it claims it cannot find: namely, any documents demonstrating that legal reviews and authorizations of these surveillance operations took place.

How The Queens Of Trump’s Youth Became The Diverse ‘Antithesis’ Of His Policies

Every year, over 26 million international passengers arrive or depart from runways on the shore of Jamaica Bay in Queens. JFK Airport is by far the busiest international gateway in the United States. Established in 1948 as Idlewild Airport and renamed after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, it has since welcomed millions of immigrants to the U.S. from every part of the world. Many of them have settled in Queens, which, with 2.3 million residents, nearly half of whom were born abroad, is by common reckoning the most diverse urban area on earth.