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"The community we share in Brooklyn will not tolerate random acts of violence," said Clarke. "Attacks on any people in our community are an attack on our community as a whole. With the leadership of this community and the New York City Police Department, we will stop the violence that threatens our safety." Jeffries's office said several victims have been assaulted by people playing the knockout game in Crown Heights, which has a significant Jewish population. One assailant, Amrit Marajh, has been charged with a hate crime, a response that other Brooklyn leaders welcomed. "I'm here, standing with my colleagues...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Employees at the U.S. liberal grass-roots group ACORN who were caught on video giving tax advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing, New York prosecutors said on Monday. The organization has been reeling since a YouTube video was disseminated last September showing ACORN workers giving advice on how to flout the law to two conservative activists who posed as a pimp and a prostitute. The U.S. Congress then voted by wide margins to prohibit the federal government from funding ACORN, and the U.S. Census Bureau ended...

NEW YORK — Investigators seeking witnesses and suspects in the brutal slaying of a graduate honors student have been studying security videotape from the neighborhood where she spent her last night out with friends, police said Tuesday. One tape shows the victim, Imette St. Guillen, talking to a female friend at about 3 a.m. Saturday outside Pioneer, a bar in the Bowery section of Manhattan. The two can be seen parting ways, with the friend leaving by cab, police said. The friend later told police St. Guillen sounded fine when she checked on her by cell phone about 30 minutes...

Ed Dept. eyes chargekids bullied, 1 beaten Students victims of race hate, mom sez  Lisa Brown moved from Oklahoma so that her two sons, Sloan (l.) and J.T. and her daughter Robbie could experience diversity in Brooklyn. City education officials are investigating the claims of a pair of boys from Oklahoma who moved to Brooklyn to experience diversity, and instead say they got schooled in racism and violence. Mom Lisa Brown, 33, told the Daily News she relocated her family from their small Oklahoma town so her husband, a Brooklyn native and social worker, could more easily find work...

It was an irresistible score: A fancy SUV left unlocked and running while a newspaper carrier ran inside a Brooklyn grocery to make a delivery. The only hitch was that the white 2002 Chevy Tahoe came with a baby onboard, which cops say the unwitting thief learned only after stealing the sport-utility vehicle yesterday morning in Brownsville. Eagle-eyed cops spotted the SUV six blocks away about five minutes later - with the 14-month-old girl safe inside, the engine still warm and a jittery man nearby. "He said he found the car and there was a kid inside," said a police...

<p>A grand jury is expected today to indict embattled Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Gerald Garson for taking bribes after examining $10,000 in credit card bills that a lawyer claims he spent on the jurist in exchange for preferential treatment, The Post has learned.</p>

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