NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea on Monday said that an IAB investigation is underway into an allegation that a member of the NYPD was at the fatal riots at the US Capitol last week. “I can tell you that there is one investigation that is active on one member,” Shea said on NY1 Monday morning. “There is no name yet released because we don’t know yet if it’s true or not, but I can tell you that anyone committing crimes certainly would have a very short shelf life with the NYPD.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A New York City police officer shot a knife-wielding man who lunged at officers inside a Queens home on Friday evening, NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said. The man, who was shot twice, was in critical condition late Friday, Monahan told reporters. He said officers had responded to the same home three times in the past three days for the same man, “who was having hallucinations.” The man, 41, told officers Friday morning that he had been using crystal methamphetamine and was “contemplating suicide,” Monahan said. He was taken to the hospital after that, but later released. That evening, a family member reported that the man was armed with a knife and destroying the basement, Monahan said.

An armed man who barricaded himself inside a New York hospital was taken into custody without incident, police said. The man barricaded himself inside Manhattan’s Sloan Kettering Hospital on Thursday night with a firearm, New York City Police tweeted. He was later captured, the department said early Friday. No one was injured. The man was not immediately identified. (AP)
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YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Hagaon HaRav Yehuda Kelemer ZATZAL, the longtime Rov of Young Israel of West Hempstead. He was 74. Rav Kelemer studied in Mir Yerushalayim, and received Semicha from Hagaon HaRav Chaim Shmulevitz ZATZAL. He was the Mechaber of numerous Seforim, and was a well-known Posek. Prior to learning in the Mir, the Niftar learned in Telz Cleveland. With his brilliant mind, Rav Kelemer was chosen by the Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav Gifter as his personal Chavrusa at the young age of 15. Hagaon HaRav Rv Elyashiv would send people in America to ask Shailos by him. He was a 9th generation (direct – “ben achar bas”) of the Baal Shem Tov.

New York City’s police commissioner has tested positive for the coronavirus, the department’s top spokesperson said Friday. Commissioner Dermot Shea is feeling well and running the department remotely from home, said Richard Esposito, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for public information. He has remained in regular contact with the department’s senior staff, Esposito said. Shea, 51, is among thousands of NYPD personnel to test positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic hit New York in March. Six detectives, a police officer and 40 civilian employees have died of the virus. Former Transportation Chief William Morris died of COVID-19 in June.

A woman who wrongly accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and tackled him while being filmed at a New York City hotel apologized but defended her actions in a television interview conducted before she was arrested in California. “I consider myself to be super sweet,” Miya Ponsetto, 22, said in a “CBS This Morning” interview that aired Friday. “I don’t feel that that is who I am as a person. I don’t feel like this one mistake does define me,” she said. “But I do sincerely from the bottom of my heart apologize that if I made the son feel as if I assaulted him or if I hurt his feelings or the father’s feelings.” The interview was conducted Thursday afternoon, hours before Ponsetto was jailed in Ventura County.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered competing strategies Tuesday for ramping up New York’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, with de Blasio saying vaccine eligibility should be widened and Cuomo countering that hospitals need to do a better job of vaccinating the health care workers who are eligible now. “Move it quickly. We’re serious,” said Cuomo, who on Monday threatened to fine hospitals that don’t administer their vaccine allotments quickly enough. “If you don’t want to be fined, just don’t participate in the program. It’s not a mandatory program.” Only health care workers and nursing home residents and staff members are currently being vaccinated in New York.

A self-described American nationalist suspected of leaving a hoax explosive device in a car at a New York City mall is facing criminal charges after turning himself in to police, authorities said Tuesday. Louis Shenker, 22, will be charged with placing a false bomb, criminal possession of stolen property and abandonment of a disabled animal in connection with the episode Monday at the Queens Place Mall in Elmhurst, said detective Denise Moroney, a police spokesperson. The mall was evacuated around 7:30 a.m. Monday after a device that was made to look like an explosive was found in a black Tesla parked on a ramp in a parking garage. A dog — a husky — was also found in the vehicle, which had a Nevada license plate and had been reported stolen in that state.

New York’s governor is threatening to fine hospitals that don’t use their allotment of COVID-19 vaccine fast enough. His South Carolina counterpart says health care workers have until Jan. 15 to get a shot or move to the back of the line. California’s governor wants to use dentists to vaccinate people. With frustration rising over the slow rollout of the vaccine, state leaders and other politicians around the U.S. are turning up the pressure, improvising and seeking to bend the rules to get shots in arms more quickly. “Move it quickly. We’re serious,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned hospitals on Tuesday. “If you don’t want to be fined, just don’t participate in the program. It’s not a mandatory program.” As of Wednesday morning, just 4.8 million people in the U.S.

New York drivers who can’t afford to pay the entirety of a traffic fine will be able to do so via installments and will no longer face the risk of their licenses being suspended for that debt, thanks to legislation signed by the governor. The Driver’s License Suspension Reform Act ends the practice of suspending the licenses of people who haven’t been able to pay their fines in full, and will allow people who currently have suspended licenses because of traffic debt to get them back. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the legislation into law last week. State Sen.