With Case Against Her Dismissed, Mariah Charles Plans to Sue City
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The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office formally dismissed the case against a Brooklyn teenager who was roughed up by police on her way to school, a story covered by JJIE last week.
Trauma of Her Violent Arrest Lingers, Even As Young New Yorker Beats the System
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After it happened, the beating, the arrest, the sudden violence on the way to school, the high school sophomore wasn’t the same.
Arrested for Not Carrying an ID on Way to High School, Young New Yorker Opts to Fight
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Mariah Charles woke up on Tuesday faced with a difficult decision. Does she take a plea to a crime she didn’t commit or go to trial — face the two officers who slammed her to the ground, arresting her on her way to school — and risk losing.
New York City’s Gang Database Is 99% People of Color, Chief of Detectives Testifies
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Ninety-nine percent. The number sent an audible gasp throughout the City Council chamber. Chief of Detectives Dermot F. Shea had just read off the percentage of people of color on the NYPD’s controversial — and until now — largely secretive gang database.
Arts-centered New York Diversion Program for Youth Displays High Success Rate
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The program is short: two counseling sessions, two hours each. But for teens and adults who have been arrested for the first time, it can save them from a lifetime with a criminal record.
Brooklyn Students Use ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ to Explore Solutions to Gun Violence
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It’s early evening on a warm Tuesday in March, and a handful of teenagers are commanding rapt attention in a corner of a Chelsea art gallery. They’ve just performed a short theater piece of their own devising, an exploration of gun violence and the twisting, ricocheting trajectory that one bullet can follow through a community.
Journey to Passion: Young Man Locked up at Rikers Helps Organizer to Close it
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They stood on the steps of City Hall; faith leaders, community organizers, formerly incarcerated men and women. They stood behind Democratic state Sen. Brian Benjamin with banners in their hands.
Formerly Incarcerated New Yorker Now Fights for Prison Reform for the Youth
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Herbert Murray, more than 6 feet tall and beanpole thin, held his clipboard and began to walk along the line of people outside City Hall Park in lower Manhattan who were waiting to join the one-year anniversary rally for the #CLOSErikers Campaign.
NY High School Students Pull Off Gun Regulation Forum for State Candidates
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Jessica Moskowitz hesitated before she sat in one of the pews in the back of an Episcopal church. The 16-year-old is Jewish and had never been inside one.
That White House on the Corner
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The kids don’t have a name for the building at the corner of Gracie and Hurst streets. When they want to make the plans to hang out they just say, “let’s meet at that white house on the corner.”