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Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News Ramsey Orta has five open criminal cases. He was arrested Thursday for attempting to film police as they were arresting another man on the Lower East Side, cops said. Ramsey Orta — the man who recorded the infamous cellphone video in the Eric Garner chokehold case — has been…
Welcome to Big Time Small-Time Dicks, a regular column on The Slot that explores local politicians, small-town scandals, and everything else making life miserable on a local level. Know a small time person who is a big time dick we should feature? Email us. An Idaho sheriff isn’t sure why the state is so hellbent…
Photo: Getty Islamophobia and terror-angst have gotten so bad in Europe that the classroom doodles of a 4-year-old are now potential red flags for jihadi radicalization. The BBC reports that a very young student in Luton, England was referred to local police after his teachers saw the above drawing of a stick figure cutting up…
Photo: Getty Ryan Collins of Pennsylvania will plead guilty to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as part of the celebrity iCloud breach known as “The Fappening” or “Celebgate” by the brave men of Reddit and 4chan who masturbated throughout. He faces up to five years in prison. http://gawker.com/internet-explo… He’ll probably serve far less:…
Donald Trump seems to inspire his supporters to do all sorts of mystifying and hateful acts. And apparently when they are not violenting attacking protestors, they’re taking over Instagram accounts to post videos and make threats. A hacker, or potential group of hackers, have taken over Muslim fashion brands and bloggers’ Instagram accounts to do…
View this image › Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez speaks to the media about Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke onNov. 24, 2015. Scott Olson / Via Getty Images ID: 8233734 Last July, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez explained why she chose to charge police officer Dante Servin with involuntary manslaughter instead of…
ST. PETERSBURG — Publishing a sex tape of the former wrestler Hulk Hogan embroiled Gawker Media in an expensive legal battle, but it also was a boon to the media company. On Friday, an expert witness hired by Hogan testified that when Gawker.com posted a one minute and 41-second edit of the video on Oct….
ST. PETERSBURG — Jurors learned Friday in Hulk Hogan’s $100 million privacy suit against Gawker that the gossip site decided to run a story about a very drunk young woman who engaged in sex in a bar bathroom stall — despite frantic pleas by the anonymous college student who may have been raped — because…
Everything seemed to be done right when American University investigated Faith Ferber’s sexual assault report. At a hearing this fall, the male student she accused admitted that he was responsible. And that’s when things fell apart, according to Ferber. AU, a private university in Washington, D.C., punished him with just a year of probation. The dean…
Given the seemingly ethereal nature of the internet, it can be easy to forget that behind every hack or cyberheist there’s a real wires-circuits-and-boards infrastructure. To break into your computer, or that of a financial company, cybercriminals often use hacking tools hosted on a server in a data center somewhere. They also use servers to…