YWN 10:00AM UPDATE FROM NYC: New York City is bracing for its second night of curfew Tuesday, one that will be imposed three hours earlier than Monday’s, after “packs of youth” took to the streets overnight and looted hundreds upon hundreds of stores (a real accurate number – despite DeBlasio saying otherwise) across Manhattan and the Bronx. Organized looters hit nearly every type of store you could think of, from high-end retailers and big department stores like Macy’s and Bloomingdales, to drug stores and even banks. Police were posted on nearly every other block in Manhattan but it wasn’t enough to deter looting from Midtown to Lower Manhattan. Nearly 2,000 people have been arrested over the five days of New York City protests so far.

New York City will be under an 8 p.m. curfew on Tuesday and each day after that through Sunday after another night of violence and looting across Manhattan, the Bronx and elsewhere across the city. The mayor announced the curfew extension on Tuesday morning. The unprecedented curfew in New York City on Monday did little to prevent destruction as groups of people smashed their way into shops including Macy’s flagship Manhattan store, grabbed merchandise and fled. Police said more than 700 were arrested and several officers were injured during the chaos Monday night and early Tuesday that followed another day of peaceful protests throughout the city over the death of George Floyd.

BREAKING: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called out Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Police Department. “The NYPD and the Mayor did not do their job last night” “It was a disgrace”
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Two attorneys charged with firebombing a police vehicle amid the unrest convulsing New York City were granted bail Monday over the objections of federal prosecutors who warned the pair might “return to rioting.” “One night of behavior is not a basis on which to reject somebody’s ability to make rational decisions,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Gold said. Colinford Mattis, a 32-year-old corporate attorney, and Urooj Rahman, 31 year-old human rights lawyer, are accused of torching a police vehicle in Brooklyn on Saturday during an eruption of violent demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minnesota police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for several minutes even after he stopped moving and pleading for air.

1:55AM YWN UPDATE FROM VIOLENT RIOTS IN NYC: – Looters have vandalized and destroyed HUNDREDS of businesses tonight. – NYPD Manhattan Chief just announced that officers are NOT to engage in vehicle pursuits that have committed looting (burglary). “Too dangerous and we don’t want officers injured”. This follows at least 3 pursuits tonight that he terminated as well. – An NYPD Officer was mowed down by a vehicle in the Bronx. (Condition still unknown.) – Shots fired at NYPD Officers in WIlliamsburg. No injuries and vehicle as well as firearm recovered in Manhattan. 4 suspects were arrested. – Deblasio tweets at 1:00AM and says he visited the Bronx and says the “Bronx has real problems”.

Flatbush SHomrim has launched a search for a mising 18-year-old teen. Soloman Mandalaoui is 18 years old, 5’9 and 170lbs, wearing green sweats, blue hoody and red sneakers. He was last seen in Flatbush at 12:30PM jogging on Ave S and East 21st Street toward Ocean Parkway. If seen please call Flatbush Shomrim at 718-338-9797. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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CNN President Jeff Zucker is considering running for mayor of New York City, The New York Times reported Sunday. Asked by the New York Times’ Ben Smith whether he’s considering throwing his hat in the ring for the 2021 mayoral election, Zucker “paused, and said he didn’t want his answer to cause a storm of news,” according to Smith. What Zucker did tell Smith was this: “New York City is going to need a very strong mayor in the aftermath of this, and I always like a challenge.” The 55-year-old Zucker has served as CNN’s president since 2013 and previously led NBC in the late 2000s. The mayoral election will take place next year and incumbent Democratic New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is ineligible to run again due to term limits. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Stephanie Byrd agonized over temporarily laying off nearly the entire staff at her family’s trio of Detroit businesses when the coronavirus pandemic hit. But she’s not just concerned about the impact on their bottom line. She’s worried other black-owned businesses will struggle to withstand another wave of economic uncertainty, following decades of inequity that made it hard for many to flourish in the first place. “Most of the people I know who have businesses and are black are terrified right now,” said Byrd, whose family owns Flood’s Bar & Grille, The Block restaurant and the city’s Garden Theater. “There could be a new wave of black businesses that are able to reinvent themselves post-pandemic, but black businesses could also be wiped out for the most part within a black city.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday called for an NYPD officer to be stripped of his gun and badge after video showed him pulling his gun on a crowd of protesters. In the video, the NYPD officer charges at protesters in the middle of an intersection, raises his gun and threateningly swings it around from side to side as people scream and run away. The incident reportedly happened around 10 p.m. near East 12th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Speaking at a news conference Monday morning, de Blasio said the scene looked “chaotic” but the officer’s actions were “unacceptable and dangerous.” he added the officer should have his gun and badge taken away immediately. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Graffiti on a massive billboard along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway says “KILL COPS”. The attached photo taken on Monday morning by BoroPark24 and provided to YWN. YWN notes that the last time NYC protesters called for “dead cops”, it ended with the cold-blooded assassination of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, who were killed “execution style” while sitting in the patrol car in Brooklyn. Just days prior to that horrific incident, Mayor Debalsio did nothing when thousands of protesters chanted “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want them? Now!” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)