A bipartisan group of district attorneys across New York are pushing back on the Trump administration’s efforts to strike down a state law that blocks federal immigration agents from making arrests at state courthouses.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr., penned an op-ed in the New York Daily News this weekend affirming that rape is rape, and underscoring the realities of the D.A.’s Office’s rape prosecutions.
So here are the facts: Sexual assault and rape are typically committed by someone the survivor knows. Sometimes that means an acquaintance from their neighborhood or workplace. Sometimes that means a date. Often, that means a current or former intimate partner — which is exactly why, when I created the Manhattan district attorney office’s first Special Victims Division, we combined our sex crimes and domestic violence practices into one Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Bureau.
A Manhattan grand jury has indicted two men from the Dominican Republic in connection with the shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer in Harlem last month, authorities said.
State prosecutors in Manhattan brought charges Wednesday against the suspects involved in the July shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection agent in an uptown park.
