
The NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza are the site from which changes to Eric Garner and other police brutality victims' Wikipedia pages were made. (Photo: Ed Yourdon/flickr/cc)
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The NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza are the site from which changes to Eric Garner and other police brutality victims' Wikipedia pages were made. (Photo: Ed Yourdon/flickr/cc)
Edits to the Wikipedia pages of Eric Garner, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, and other victims of police brutality in New York City have been traced back to the NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza, according to a report.
The news outlet Capital New York broke the story on Friday. According to their reporting, the edits made to the pages which detailed Garner's death last July at the hands of NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo include:
In previous years, IP addresses that linked back to One Police Plaza also attempted to delete the Wikipedia pages for Sean Bell, an unarmed man killed by police in a hail of gunfire in November 2006, as well as Amadou Diallo, shot dead by an officer who claimed to mistake Diallo's wallet for a gun in November 2013.
Bell's page was also edited to change the sentence "one Latino and two African-American men were shot a total of 50 times" to "one Latino and two African-American men were shot at a total of 50 times" (emphasis added).
An NYPD spokesperson, Det. Cheryl Crispin, told Capital New York that the matter was "under internal review."
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Edits to the Wikipedia pages of Eric Garner, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, and other victims of police brutality in New York City have been traced back to the NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza, according to a report.
The news outlet Capital New York broke the story on Friday. According to their reporting, the edits made to the pages which detailed Garner's death last July at the hands of NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo include:
In previous years, IP addresses that linked back to One Police Plaza also attempted to delete the Wikipedia pages for Sean Bell, an unarmed man killed by police in a hail of gunfire in November 2006, as well as Amadou Diallo, shot dead by an officer who claimed to mistake Diallo's wallet for a gun in November 2013.
Bell's page was also edited to change the sentence "one Latino and two African-American men were shot a total of 50 times" to "one Latino and two African-American men were shot at a total of 50 times" (emphasis added).
An NYPD spokesperson, Det. Cheryl Crispin, told Capital New York that the matter was "under internal review."
Edits to the Wikipedia pages of Eric Garner, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, and other victims of police brutality in New York City have been traced back to the NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza, according to a report.
The news outlet Capital New York broke the story on Friday. According to their reporting, the edits made to the pages which detailed Garner's death last July at the hands of NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo include:
In previous years, IP addresses that linked back to One Police Plaza also attempted to delete the Wikipedia pages for Sean Bell, an unarmed man killed by police in a hail of gunfire in November 2006, as well as Amadou Diallo, shot dead by an officer who claimed to mistake Diallo's wallet for a gun in November 2013.
Bell's page was also edited to change the sentence "one Latino and two African-American men were shot a total of 50 times" to "one Latino and two African-American men were shot at a total of 50 times" (emphasis added).
An NYPD spokesperson, Det. Cheryl Crispin, told Capital New York that the matter was "under internal review."