Eric Abrams

Proud to have secured $375,000 in a settlement for Mr. Bauer, who was viciously beat by NY prison guards. One of the officers, Nicholas Anzalone, is now facing a second-degree murder charge for his alleged involvement in the fatal 2024 beating of Robert Brooks.

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Like Scandinavian...but brown.

New pro-Mamdani PAC targets Black homeowners Can messaging around reducing energy bills and pollution win over Cuomo voters in East Flatbush and Wakefield?

New York Communities for Change is launching a new pro-Mamdani super PAC focused on canvassing Black homeowners in East Flatbush, Canarsie and Wakefield – a demographic that Andrew Cuomo overwhelmingly won in the primary. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Some recent news: “ECBAWM attorneys recovered nearly $3.6 million for the family of Heather Roselli related to her tragic death, having been fatally suffocated by state aides while under the care of a New York state facility for people with disabilities.” ecbawm.com/news/ecbawm-...

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record.

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“new Group (centrist, good) wants to limit the influence of Groups (left, concerned about ‘rights’, bad)”

Autistic man was assaulted, overmedicated at East Islip group home owned by Garden City nonprofit agency, lawsuit alleges The suit alleges group home staff kicked and punched the man and falsified records to permit overmedication that kept him in a "zombielike" state.

“Staff falsified medical records to permit dosages of medicine for J.P. that were so high he was kept in a drooling ‘zombielike’ state, kicked and punched him and tied his shirtsleeves, straitjacket like, to restrain him, according to the lawsuit.”

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Autistic man from Queens suffered years of abuse at group home: lawsuit A non-verbal autistic man from Queens suffered years of beatings and abuse by the staff of the group home that was supposed to take care of him — even after a video of his treatment made the news i…

“I want justice and accountability,” J.P .’s mother , who goes by her initials, V.T., told the Daily News. “My son is a human being. No one should be treated that way, or spoken to (that way). No one should raise their hand to anyone. He’s a disabled man.”

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“This wasn’t a one-time failure, but rather a systemic campaign of overmedication, physical and emotional abuse, and institutional cover-ups against a completely defenseless person.”

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Lawsuit alleges abuse, coverup at Suffolk County group home for disabled residents The lawsuit, filed by the family of a former resident identified as “J.P.,” accuses Life’s WORC, a nonprofit that operates group homes for individuals with developmental disabilities, of systematic ab...

Grateful to @news12li.bsky.social for covering this important new lawsuit we filed yesterday.

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