Car slams into Capitol barrier ahead of Santos expulsion debateHundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters swarmed the streets surrounding Rockefeller Center on Wednesday, clashing with NYPD cops and chanting “River to the sea,” long seen as an antisemitic slogan, in an effort to support Gaza by derailing the annual tree lighting.Waving Palestinian flags and signs calling for the “end to genocide,” the ralliers gathered along Sixth Avenue alongside hordes of tourists waiting in line to see the iconic ceremony.Unable to get to the NYC Christmas tree, the enormous crowd instead swarmed...…Car slams into Capitol barrier ahead of Santos expulsion debateHundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters swarmed the streets surrounding Rockefeller Center on Wednesday, clashing with NYPD cops and chanting “River to the sea,” long seen as an antisemitic slogan, in an effort to support Gaza by derailing the annual tree lighting.Waving Palestinian flags and signs calling for the “end to genocide,” the ralliers gathered along Sixth Avenue alongside hordes of tourists waiting in line to see the iconic ceremony.Unable to get to the NYC Christmas tree, the enormous crowd instead swarmed...WW…

A career criminal with more than 100 arrests to his name was busted for cruelly shoving a 92-year-old woman into a Manhattan fire hydrant — leaving his victim too scared to walk alone in her own neighborhood.The injured elder, a Bronx native named Geraldine, after cops arrested convicted sex offender Rashid Brimmage, 31, and charged him with attacking her.“I thought a brick hit me or something hit me on the left side of my head, and I went right down and hit my head against the hydrant,” Geraldine, who asked that her last name be withheld for safety reasons, said of the attack. “Blood was...…A career criminal with more than 100 arrests to his name was busted for cruelly shoving a 92-year-old woman into a Manhattan fire hydrant — leaving his victim too scared to walk alone in her own neighborhood.The injured elder, a Bronx native named Geraldine, after cops arrested convicted sex offender Rashid Brimmage, 31, and charged him with attacking her.“I thought a brick hit me or something hit me on the left side of my head, and I went right down and hit my head against the hydrant,” Geraldine, who asked that her last name be withheld for safety reasons, said of the attack. “Blood was...WW…

A labor strike is brewing in the NYPD.A pair of flyers making the rounds among NYPD officers are encouraging them to call out sick July 4 — as retribution for and a perceived anti-cop climate following the outrage over high-profile police killings of unarmed black men across the country, multiple cops told The Post.One message calls for the strike to kick off at 3 p.m. July 4.“NYPD cops will strike on July 4th to let the city have their independence without cops,” the message, which is being passed among cops via text, according to sources.“Cops that say we can’t strike because of the...…A labor strike is brewing in the NYPD.A pair of flyers making the rounds among NYPD officers are encouraging them to call out sick July 4 — as retribution for and a perceived anti-cop climate following the outrage over high-profile police killings of unarmed black men across the country, multiple cops told The Post.One message calls for the strike to kick off at 3 p.m. July 4.“NYPD cops will strike on July 4th to let the city have their independence without cops,” the message, which is being passed among cops via text, according to sources.“Cops that say we can’t strike because of the...WW…

Police have collared the goon in a random attack — a convicted sex offender with more than 100 prior arrests, according to police and sources.“Thanks to the outstanding work of @NYPDDetectives, this suspect has been apprehended,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted Tuesday.The 92-year-old woman was pushed down while walking down Third Avenue near East 16th Street in the Gramercy Park neighborhood at about 3:30 p.m. Friday, police said.Video footage was released of the attack Monday night, and by Tuesday morning, police had 31-year-old Rashid Brimmage in custody on a charge of assault,...…Police have collared the goon in a random attack — a convicted sex offender with more than 100 prior arrests, according to police and sources.“Thanks to the outstanding work of @NYPDDetectives, this suspect has been apprehended,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted Tuesday.The 92-year-old woman was pushed down while walking down Third Avenue near East 16th Street in the Gramercy Park neighborhood at about 3:30 p.m. Friday, police said.Video footage was released of the attack Monday night, and by Tuesday morning, police had 31-year-old Rashid Brimmage in custody on a charge of assault,...WW…

Sign up for our to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.Dozens of inmates freed from city jails over fears they were vulnerable to the coronavirus have wasted no time plaguing the city with new crimes, The Post has learned.At least 50 of the amid fears of the spread of COVID-19 behind bars in recent weeks have already landed back in jail — and in some cases were set free yet again, according to police sources and records.The re-offenders — just over 3 percent of those released — include a Rikers Island inmate initially jailed for allegedly setting his girlfriend’s door on fire and...…Sign up for our to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.Dozens of inmates freed from city jails over fears they were vulnerable to the coronavirus have wasted no time plaguing the city with new crimes, The Post has learned.At least 50 of the amid fears of the spread of COVID-19 behind bars in recent weeks have already landed back in jail — and in some cases were set free yet again, according to police sources and records.The re-offenders — just over 3 percent of those released — include a Rikers Island inmate initially jailed for allegedly setting his girlfriend’s door on fire and...WW…

NYPD cops had a front-row seat to a five-on-one brawl — but let the violence play out rather than doing their jobs to break it up, The Post has learned.A 14-year-old girl was slapped, punched, kicked and even shocked with a stun gun by a group of five other girls after a basketball game around 7 p.m. Sunday on East 125th Street near Madison Avenue in Harlem.Police reports initially listed the girl as 11.During the roughly 4-minute beatdown, cops sat idly in nearby cruisers — but they didn’t get out until the girl was bloody and bruised, a Post photographer observed.At least 20 police cars...…NYPD cops had a front-row seat to a five-on-one brawl — but let the violence play out rather than doing their jobs to break it up, The Post has learned.A 14-year-old girl was slapped, punched, kicked and even shocked with a stun gun by a group of five other girls after a basketball game around 7 p.m. Sunday on East 125th Street near Madison Avenue in Harlem.Police reports initially listed the girl as 11.During the roughly 4-minute beatdown, cops sat idly in nearby cruisers — but they didn’t get out until the girl was bloody and bruised, a Post photographer observed.At least 20 police cars...WW…

The “Occupy City Hall” protesters turned the city into a literal toilet, using subway grates as makeshift latrines during their month-long encampment in Lower Manhattan, an MTA supervisor revealed Wednesday as workers .“All the people who were here were going to the bathroom in the vents,” the transit boss said.“They were s–tting and pissing in the vents. They were using this as a facility, as a bathroom. It’s unbelievable what’s in there.”The supervisor was overseeing several workers with the unenviable task of using poles to poke disgusting brown sludge from between the bars of the metal...…The “Occupy City Hall” protesters turned the city into a literal toilet, using subway grates as makeshift latrines during their month-long encampment in Lower Manhattan, an MTA supervisor revealed Wednesday as workers .“All the people who were here were going to the bathroom in the vents,” the transit boss said.“They were s–tting and pissing in the vents. They were using this as a facility, as a bathroom. It’s unbelievable what’s in there.”The supervisor was overseeing several workers with the unenviable task of using poles to poke disgusting brown sludge from between the bars of the metal...WW…

The NYPD has nixed two key enforcement units and reassigned their officers to work on gun violence prevention, The Post has learned.Police brass officially pulled the plug on the Traffic Congestion Mitigation unit at 1 a.m. Friday with the transfer of the unit’s 114 members, documents show.The unit, which conducted a majority of NYPD’s enforcement on moving vehicles before its dissolution, was disbanded because it was “redundant,” an NYPD spokesperson said. Traffic enforcement agents who write parking tickets were not impacted.Police brass also nixed NYPD’s roughly 85-person homeless...…The NYPD has nixed two key enforcement units and reassigned their officers to work on gun violence prevention, The Post has learned.Police brass officially pulled the plug on the Traffic Congestion Mitigation unit at 1 a.m. Friday with the transfer of the unit’s 114 members, documents show.The unit, which conducted a majority of NYPD’s enforcement on moving vehicles before its dissolution, was disbanded because it was “redundant,” an NYPD spokesperson said. Traffic enforcement agents who write parking tickets were not impacted.Police brass also nixed NYPD’s roughly 85-person homeless...WW…

The driver who killed a US Capitol cop before he was gunned down by police is a Nation of Islam devotee from Indiana, according to reports and his social media.Noah Green, 25, who may have been living in Virginia, described himself as a “Follower of Farrakhan” on his Facebook page, in reference to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.Green appeared to have come on hard times from his Facebook page reviewed by The Post before his account was taken down.“I was on the right track and everything I had planned was coming into existence. It required long hours, lots of studying, and exercise to...…The driver who killed a US Capitol cop before he was gunned down by police is a Nation of Islam devotee from Indiana, according to reports and his social media.Noah Green, 25, who may have been living in Virginia, described himself as a “Follower of Farrakhan” on his Facebook page, in reference to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.Green appeared to have come on hard times from his Facebook page reviewed by The Post before his account was taken down.“I was on the right track and everything I had planned was coming into existence. It required long hours, lots of studying, and exercise to...WW…

An NYPD officer lied for almost a decade about the circumstances of a 2009 Bronx shooting in which he straddled a teenager and fired into his lower back at “point-blank” range, according to newly unearthed court documents.Officer Danny Acosta allegedly peddled a phony story for years, lying under oath by claiming that the teen suspect had been holding a gun to his female partner’s head before he shot him from 10 feet away.Acosta, 41, finally admitted the tale was bogus five years ago to a city Law Department attorney while falsely believing the confession was privileged, according to court...…An NYPD officer lied for almost a decade about the circumstances of a 2009 Bronx shooting in which he straddled a teenager and fired into his lower back at “point-blank” range, according to newly unearthed court documents.Officer Danny Acosta allegedly peddled a phony story for years, lying under oath by claiming that the teen suspect had been holding a gun to his female partner’s head before he shot him from 10 feet away.Acosta, 41, finally admitted the tale was bogus five years ago to a city Law Department attorney while falsely believing the confession was privileged, according to court...WW…