Author: Noel Hidalgo

A team of building inspectors have found 143 stalled construction sites around the city, with the highest concentration in Brooklyn, which boasts a total 63 vacant lots and rusting steel building frames—18 in Williamsburg alone.

‘He’s a little bit like Evita Perón… [sic] is always saying he’s “of the people”, but he’s been stealing from the people as long as he’s been in office’.

It seems more plausible that Delgado’s statement was taken from the police report and leaked to the Post. Which, considering cops’ previously-cited inclination to straight-up lie on police reports, might very well have been fabricated to deflect the provocative allegations.

I definitely called him an asshole, but I wasn’t the one with any power in the situation. I know I called him an asshole, a bad cop, a traffic cop, and said what he was doing was inhumane. I don’t believe you can uphold the law if you don’t believe women have equal rights. When an officer of the law threatens, beats, and oppresses a woman on the basis that she’s acting like a woman—that’s the problem. An utterance of profanity seems normal—at that point all a person has left is her voice. I was begging for help and not using the moment as a platform for antisemitism.