West Indian Day Parade

(Newser) - It's a festival celebrating Caribbean culture that New York City residents look forward to all year, but the early hours before today's West Indian Day Parade were rocked by violence during pre-celebrations—and a staffer for Gov. Andrew Cuomo was one of the victims. Cuomo says Carey Gabay,...

(Newser) - The NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau is looking into some extremely ill-advised comments made on a public Facebook page, which appear to have been written by officers posting under their real names in September. Officers complaining about having to police Brooklyn's annual—and usually violence-plagued—West Indian American Day...

(Newser) - New York City officials are launching an investigation of two police officers filmed grinding against dancers in a West Indian Day parade during a weekend plagued by 48 shootings. Officers are seen pumping against the backs of shimmying dancers at the Brooklyn parade earlier this month in a just released...