Tandy Lau

New York

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Flaco the owl remembered a year after death

Feb 26, 2025 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Super Bowl weekend was a “superb owl” weekend at the New York Historical for the opening of “The Year of the Flaco.”
Manhattan sees spike in anti-migrant attacks

Feb 20, 2025 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Hate crimes unit chief Hannah Yu (left) and Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg (center) announce Hate Crimes Modernization Act in 2023 with sponsor Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal (right). (Credit: Yakov Mantelman/DANY Photo Unit) In 2023, the Manhattan District Attorney initiated just one hate crime prosecution based on national origin.
Eliseo Deleon seeks to overturn murder conviction for second and final time

Jan 16, 2025 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Eliseo Deleon (left) and Jeffrey Deskovic (right). Credit: Courtesy of Jeffrey Deskovic Eliseo Deleon and Jeffrey Deskovic first met while both incarcerated at Elmira Correctional Facility. They worked together in food service and bonded over regular chess matches over roughly a three-year span.
Fed Up: City held in contempt over jail conditions as federal judge favors receivership

Dec 5, 2024 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Federal judge Laura Taylor Swain held the City of New York in civil contempt last Wednesday, Nov. 27 for failing to properly implement court-ordered reforms in city jails, particularly on Rikers Island, stemming from a 2012 class action lawsuit over unconstitutional detainee conditions. The case, Nunez v. City of New York, was settled in 2015 and required the NYC Department of Corrections (DOC) to comply with a laundry list of changes and report them to a monitoring team.
Black and brown NYC public students hit hardest by homelessness

Nov 27, 2024 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Migrant children take a school bus in front of the Row Hotel that serves as migrant shelter on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in New York.
Biden's clemency record scrutinized amid federal death row debate

Nov 11, 2024 | spokesman-recorder.com | Tandy Lau

President Joe Biden could not spare Marcellus Williams from being executed by the state of Missouri last month despite potentially exonerating evidence. Nor can he halt the upcoming execution of Robert Roberson in Texas, stemming from a now-debunked criminal science, because non-federal sentences like those of Williams and Roberson remain in the hands of governors. But Biden can grant clemency to prisoners on federal death row.
Congress bill historically enshrining Rucker Park passes the House

Sep 26, 2024 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Bill sponsor Rep. Adriano Espaillat (center) visits Rucker Park. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Congressman Espaillat) Congress got the ball rolling on H.R.6852 — a bill to designate Harlem’s Holcombe Rucker Park as a national commemorative site — as the legislation passed through the House this past Tuesday, September 24.
Oversight agencies launch investigations after Charizma Jones’s death following DOC custody release

Aug 1, 2024 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Charizma Jones’ graduation photo.
Tenants call for co-op conversion in fight against ‘worst landlord’

Jun 13, 2024 | amsterdamnews.com | Tandy Lau

Co-ops are owned by the tenants instead of a landlord. The housing model instead allows residents to buy in as shareholders.
Guilty After Proven Innocent: The Challenge Of Wrongful Convictions

Jan 22, 2024 | seattlemedium.com | Tandy Lau

This post was originally published on New York Amsterdam NewsBy Tandy Lau“Natascha Tiger pleaded guilty but is innocent,” wrote Rowan Wilson, current chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, in his 2018 People v. Tiger dissenting opinion.