An off-duty <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police</a> officer is in critical condition after being shot in the head during a robbery attempt Saturday evening, according to authorities.
The officer, identified as a 26-year-old and five-year veteran of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nypd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Police Department</a>, travelled with a relative to Ruby Street in Brooklyn to purchase a vehicle in a transaction arranged on social media, officials said during a Saturday night news conference.
Upon arrival, the suspect pulled out a gun and &#8220;announced a robbery,&#8221; leading to an exchange of gunfire in which the officer was struck, said Michael Baldassano, assistant chief of the NYPD Detective Bureau.
NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the officer was transported to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition. &#8220;Please keep this young officer in your prayers. He is currently fighting for his life,&#8221; Sewell said.
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Police asked the public for assistance in finding the suspect, who Baldassano said fled from the scene of the shooting. He encouraged anyone with information to call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
Baldassano also said police had &#8220;no reason to believe&#8221; the suspect knew the target of the attempted robbery was an off-duty police officer, but he stressed the shooting remained under investigation.
New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said the wounded officer is married and has children. “We will catch the person responsible for this act,” he said.
The relative who accompanied the off-duty officer was not injured, police said, <a href="https://www.police1.com/off-duty/articles/off-duty-nypd-officer-shot-in-head-in-robbery-attempt-m3T4jysMvErXrDBe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per the New York Daily News</a>.
Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, said legislators are living in a &#8220;fantasy world&#8221; when they talk about crime as if it&#8217;s not real. &#8220;We&#8217;ve asked for help before. We&#8217;re asking and demanding help now,&#8221; he said.
New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul conveyed well wishes for the officer and denounced the scourge of gun violence.
&#8220;I am praying for the recovery of an off-duty [NYPD] officer who was shot during an attempted robbery last night,&#8221; Hochul <a href="https://twitter.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1622259030516289541" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. &#8220;Everyone deserves to feel safe in our state. I will keep doing everything in my power to combat illegal gun trafficking and the gun violence epidemic.&#8221;

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NYPD Officer ‘Fighting For His Life’ After Being Shot In Head

NYPD Officer 'Fighting For His Life' After Being Shot In Head

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A 90-year-old man who owns a candy store in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viciously</a> assaulted on Tuesday. 
Ramon “Ray” Alvarez said he was outside of his candy store at around 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday when two men approached him and tried to get him to buy some cases of seltzer water, <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/rays-candy-store-owner-brutally-assaulted.amp">according</a> to Fox 5 New York. 
After he said no, Alvarez says one of the men threatened and attacked him with what he described as a belt with a rock attached to the end. Alvarez was hit in the face and fell down as the men fled, according to Fox 5.
On Thursday, Alvarez said, “I feel good,” even though he said he still isn’t able to chew his food. He is also concerned that his jaw might be broken but said he had not been to see a doctor.
The New York Police Department put out pictures of a man they wanted in relation to the assault. 
Alvarez is originally from Iran and immigrated to the United States in the 1960s. He subsequently became a U.S. citizen. His candy store has been in the area since 1974, and a GoFundMe was <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/east-village-community-candy-shop">established</a> to try to assist him after he suffered financial difficulties.
During the pandemic, the amount of money it took to keep the shop up and running was twice as much as it had been in the past. Inflation was also a problem for him and made his life increasingly difficult.
&#8220;I got a bill from Con Edison, they didn’t come to read the meter for five months,&#8221; he previously said. &#8220;The bill was $18,000.”
“All my costs doubled, from cooking oil and potatoes to electricity,” Alvarez <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/24/rays-candy-store-owner-saved-by-50k-in-donations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also previously told</a> Side Dish, per The New York Post.
“Rent is a killer. When I started in 1974, I paid $125 and now I am paying $6,185 a month. After I paid my rent and the electricity, I didn’t have any money for my health,” Alvarez said at the time. His residential rent is lower, as he resides above the shop.
The GoFundMe had a goal to bring in $19,470, but it collected $48,986 in just a week, according to Alvarez. 
Every time Alvarez almost shut down the shop, the people who frequent his establishment rose to help him and brought in funds. There is a GoFundMe for the shop that is <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/fundrayscandystore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now</a> at $55,285 out of $90,000. 
“Everyone loves Ray,” Nicolas Heller, a longtime customer and resident of Williamsburg, said in the past. “He was always a fixture. Ray has been this old man working in the wee hours of the night, keeping the lights on for his business for as long as I can remember.”
New York City <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/nyregion/new-york-crime-stats.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saw</a> an uptick of 22% in major crimes last year compared to 2021.

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90-Year-Old Candy Store Owner Beaten Up In NYC

The top police union leader of New York City accused NYPD officials of refusing to acknowledge the department&#8217;s recruitment and retention crisis after losing more staff members last year than in the previous two decades.
&#8220;The NYPD is playing a dangerous game by refusing to acknowledge and address its recruitment and retention crisis,&#8221; New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/nypd-sees-largest-staff-exodus-decades-as-leaders-refusing-acknowledge-mounting-crisis-union-boss">Fox News Digital</a>. &#8220;New Yorkers are demanding more police presence in their neighborhoods and on the subway, but we just don&#8217;t have the staffing to provide it consistently.&#8221;
Lynch called out authorities after the association claimed the department fell short of some 600 recruits when it needed over 1,200 new recruits to reach the current budgeted headcount and 2,500 new recruits to get back to staffing levels from 2019.
&#8220;Underpaying &amp; overworking police officers is hurting public safety,&#8221; The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, which represents over 50,000 active and retired New York City Police Officers, said in a tweet. &#8220;The time to fix it is NOW. #NYPDExodus&#8221;
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Hiring day at <a href="https://twitter.com/NYPDTraining?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYPDTraining</a> Academy:   We needed +1,200 new recruits to reach the current budgeted headcount, or 2,500 to get back to 2019 staffing levels.⁰ We got 543.   Underpaying &amp; overworking police officers is hurting public safety. The time to fix it is NOW. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYPDExodus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NYPDExodus</a> <a href="https://t.co/gLd5mh0l3i">pic.twitter.com/gLd5mh0l3i</a>
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New York City Police Pension Fund data reported by Fox News show 3,701 members left the force last year, of which 1,955 retired and 1,746 quit in 2022. The figure marks the department&#8217;s largest number of officers leaving the force in the previous 20 years, the news outlet reported.
In the year after the horrific events of 9/11, data showed 3,846 NYPD members left or quit the force in 2002.
Data between 2010 and 2019 showed the department lost an average of 2,112 members.
&#8220;Many talented, dedicated recruits don&#8217;t want to raise their hand for the NYPD because they&#8217;ll be paid better and treated better at almost any other police department,&#8221; Lynch told Fox News Digital. &#8220;New York City needs to make a major investment in paying and treating its police officers like professionals. It can&#8217;t afford not to.&#8221;
Lynch added the crisis has only emboldened criminals and endangered residents and tourists in the metropolitan area.
NYPD <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nypd-crime-stats-show-murder-rate-increases-as-overall-crime-drops-in-november">statistics</a> last year show murder rates and other major crimes increased across New York City in November despite authorities claiming the overall index crime decreased by just over 1% compared to the same time last year.
Crimes like burglary, grand larceny, and cases of rape dropped as much as 14%. Other stats show felony assaults were up 3%, robberies jumped by 3.6%, and car thefts increased to 9.4%. However, most notably, the police report showed 30 homicides occurred in the city during November, up from 25 in the same month during 2021.
Those numbers followed a summer of crime waves that washed over city neighborhoods like the West Village and Greenwich Village, where business owners and residents expressed their frustrations over the neighborhood&#8217;s lack of law and order.
NYPD officials in August compared to the same year&#8217;s crime stats, which said Manhattan&#8217;s 6th Precinct saw an 80% increase in overall significant crimes, with burglaries up 119% and grand larcenies up more than 100%.
Union officials said several variables caused officers to leave the force, including burnout due to fewer officers forced to carry the workload and growing scrutiny. At the same time, other factors include some officers receiving 30% less pay than the average New York City officer and, ultimately, low morale among the ranks.
Former NYPD officer and lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice Jillian Snider told Fox News authorities began leaving the force in 2019, but the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; rhetoric made it a bigger issue.
An NYPD spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Thursday that &#8220;the NYPD regularly monitors attrition and plans accordingly to address the loss of officers who retire or leave the Department for a variety of reasons.&#8221;
&#8220;While recent events outside of the department continue to present challenges to recruitment efforts, we continue to focus on the positive results that happen when someone joins this organization,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;In January 2023, we hired more than 500 individuals who have begun training at the Police Academy in addition to the approximately 2000 individuals we hired in 2022.&#8221;

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‘The NYPD Is Playing A Dangerous Game’: Top Police Union Leader Calls Out Authorities’ Refusal To Admit Recruitment Issues

Top NYC Police Union Leader Calls Out Authorities Refusal To Admit Recruitment Issues

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An employee at New York&#8217;s Row NYC hotel spoke out on Tuesday about how the illegal immigrants who have been placed there have caused &#8220;total chaos,&#8221; brought in drugs, and trashed the rooms that taxpayers are funding.
Felipe Rodriguez <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyc-hotel-worker-calls-out-city-migrants-destroy-rooms-disrespect-employees-no-accountability" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described to Fox News the scene</a> at Row NYC — which is &#8220;<a href="https://www.rownyc.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed until further notice</a>&#8221; as it is being used to house illegal immigrants who have been dropped off in New York — telling &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; that the city was supposed to be running the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-to-spend-86-million-on-hotel-rooms-for-migrants-amid-border-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">housing program</a> but that no one was providing any real supervision or direction.
&#8220;Chaos, total chaos,&#8221; he said of the hotel. &#8220;There&#8217;s no accountability. The city&#8217;s so-called running the program [and] allows these people to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/luxury-nyc-hotel-worker-disability-injury-migrants-trashing-rooms-mess" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destroy these rooms</a>. There is no daily supervision to show these people that … you don&#8217;t destroy your hotel. You are only there temporarily. This is not your home.&#8221;
&#8220;Unfortunately, the ones that are paying the price is the hotel workers, Local 6 union workers,&#8221; Rodriguez added. &#8220;Those guys and those ladies endure a lot of disrespect from the migrants, and there [are] some nice migrants, but there&#8217;s too much alcohol, too much drugs and too much violence, and you have teenagers … going into the staircases and making out like it&#8217;s lovers lane … This is a free-for-all.&#8221;
Rodriguez himself had to be placed on disability after he was injured while attempting to deliver a refrigerator to an already-cluttered room at the hotel.
To make the situation even more toxic, Rodriguez claimed that hotel management was not terribly interested in fixing the problem — mainly because the government was paying them more to house migrants than they would bring in from regular guests.
&#8220;Their self-entitlement is beyond belief. They believe that … the hotel is theirs, and they&#8217;re going to do what will what they want, and our general manager really [doesn&#8217;t] care about any of the workers&#8217; toxic conditions or hostile conditions. All he cares about is the money. They wanted more money, so it&#8217;s easy money from the city,&#8221; he said.
Another hotel, the Watson — which has also &#8220;<a href="https://thewatsonhotelny.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended operations until further notice</a>&#8221; — has been the focus of a protest after a number of male migrants were instructed to move from the hotel to a shelter.
Claiming that the accommodations at the shelter were &#8220;subpar,&#8221; a number of the migrants opted instead to camp out on the street in front of the Watson in protest.
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Migrants returned from the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WatsonHotel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WatsonHotel</a> stating they did not like what they saw. They say the want to stay at the hotel. They will continue to protest outside the hotel <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/migrant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#migrant</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/shelter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#shelter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nyc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nyc</a> <a href="https://t.co/JAf7RRrCDS">pic.twitter.com/JAf7RRrCDS</a>
&mdash; Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dean_Moses/status/1620535893986803712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The current situation in 57th street in front of the Watson Hotel. A handful of migrants say they’d rather camp out here than go to the city’s “uninhabitable” shelter in Brooklyn. The migrants who’ve chosen to go to the shelter say it’s comfortable, warm and safe. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7NY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC7NY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NYC</a> <a href="https://t.co/dWpD2Q89ge">pic.twitter.com/dWpD2Q89ge</a>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NYC</a> Watson Hotel Dozens of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/migrant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#migrant</a> are refusing to leave the hotel and go to the new shelter the <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYCMayor</a> set up for them . The migrants state that the shelter looks like an ICE detention center. With the aid of activists, they set up camp in front of the Watson hotel <a href="https://t.co/bf8wNVosqm">pic.twitter.com/bf8wNVosqm</a>
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New York’s migrant crisis continues

‘This Is A Free-For-All’: NYC Hotel Worker Describes Chaos As Migrants Have Trashed Rooms, Brought In Drugs

NYC Hotel Worker Describes Chaos As Migrants Have Trashed Rooms, Brought In Drugs

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">Model</a> and actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Julia Fox</a> doubled down on claims that she loved her small, mouse-infested apartment and hopes that living there would make her toddler son less entitled.
The 32-year-old mom of one recently went viral for an apartment tour she posted to TikTok. Viewers were shocked that a celebrity would live in such a modest two-bedroom apartment, even in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city">New York City</a>. 
Fox defended her home, saying she intentionally lives below her means for some very specific reasons. 
“I really wasn’t expecting my apartment tour to go so viral, and people are freaking out over it,” she said Monday during a TikTok <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@juliafox/video/7194449239592717614">update</a>.
“I just want you guys to know that, like, first of all, I’m not worth $30 million, not even close,” she continued, referencing comments fans had made about her net worth. “And second of all, I don’t give a f***. I don’t need $30 million — what does one person need $30 million for? I’ve survived on a lot less and I’m doing just fine.”
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The “Uncut Gems” star shares her 2-year-old son Valentino with her ex Peter Artemiev. The model is also known for her short-lived romance with rapper Kanye West.
Fox’s apartment features two small bedrooms which are both allotted to her toddler son, one as his bedroom and one as his playroom. Meanwhile, the actress said she uses the living room as her bedroom and co-sleeps with her son.
“It’s really not that deep,” she said of the tiny apartment. “This just happens to be the apartment where I took my son home from the hospital, so it’s his home. &#8230; It really is Valentino’s apartment. It’s like a sentimental thing.”
“That’s kind of why I’m, like, even though I could probably afford a bigger place probably, because I am in New York, after all — it’s about having that sense of normalcy for Valentino,” Fox continued.
Fox furthermore doesn’t want her son to grow up spoiled and entitled.
“I don’t want him to grow up and be, like, a f***ing prick, you know what I mean? I want him to be in touch with the f***ing real world because I grew up in the real world, believe it or not,” she explained. “I just want my son to have the same.”
In the previous home tour video <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@juliafox/video/7192598486574009646">posted</a> to TikTok, Fox described excessive wealth as “icky” and “wasteful,” especially in light of how many people are homeless. She further admitted that she gets along with the mice that crawl around her apartment at night. 
“It’s a problem depending on how you look at it,” Fox said of the rodent infestation. “I kind of let them rock. I appreciate that they, um, at night while we’re sleeping, come out and clean up the crumbs that my son drops on the floor.”

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Julia Fox Defends Tiny Mouse-Infested Apartment, Says It’ll Keep Her Son From Becoming ‘A F***ing Prick’

Julia Fox Defends Tiny Mouse-Infested Apartment, Says It'll Keep Her Son From Becoming 'A F***ing Prick'

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Madison Square Garden Entertainment is using <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/facial-recognition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facial recognition</a> technology to prevent attorneys from law firms representing clients suing the company from entering iconic venues in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a>.
The policy may violate state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination and retaliation toward individuals engaged in protected activities, such as “taking on legitimate cases, including sexual harassment or employment discrimination claims,” according to a <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/nys_oag_letter_to_madison_square_garden_entertainment_corp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> from Kyle Rapiñan, an official with the New York State Office of the Attorney General. An <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> from the New York Times found that the company is stopping lawyers from entering the facility with the help of software that can identify their faces using profile photos on their companies’ websites.
Thousands of lawyers across several dozen firms may have been affected by the company’s move, according to the letter, which indicated that season ticket holders could be barred from attending events. Sports teams such as the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers play at Madison Square Garden, which is also a coveted concert venue.
In one example highlighted by the New York Times, personal injury lawyer Kelly Conlon was pulled aside while chaperoning her nine-year-old daughter to Radio City Music Hall for a Rockettes show. Security guards pulled Conlon aside and informed her that she had been placed on an “attorney exclusion list” created by the venue’s management.
Madison Square Garden Entertainment CEO James Dolan, whose family owns the company, affirmed during an <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/msg-lawyer-ban-anti-bias-laws-madison-square-garden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Fox 5 New York that he stands by the policy. “If somebody sues you, that’s confrontational, that’s adversarial,” he asserted. “There’s all kinds of politicians who are jumping into this, none for the right reasons.”
Although the use of facial recognition is presently legal in New York City, other state and local governments have prohibited the technology. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit last year against Google and Meta for breaches of state laws which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-takes-google-to-court-for-allegedly-harvesting-biometric-data-without-consent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibit</a> technology companies from using data such as iris scans, fingerprints, voiceprints, or records of hand and face geometry for commercial purposes without permission.
Other technology firms have likewise faced criticism from lawmakers over the collection of user data. Amazon smart doorbell company Ring informed Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) that the company has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazon-handed-over-ring-doorbell-footage-to-authorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provided</a> law enforcement with videos from user devices in emergency scenarios after making a “good-faith determination that there was an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury” involved in the situation. The lawmaker said that the policy justifies passage of the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, which would prohibit state and federal entities from accessing Americans’ sensitive data.
“As my ongoing investigation into Amazon illustrates, it has become increasingly difficult for the public to move, assemble, and converse in public without being tracked and recorded,” Markey said in a <a href="https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markeys-probe-into-amazon-ring-reveals-new-privacy-problems" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. “We cannot accept this as inevitable in our country.”
ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of social media platform TikTok, recently garnered controversy for planning to track the location of specific American citizens, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktoks-parent-company-in-china-planned-to-use-platform-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Forbes. The company’s internal audit and risk department was originally purposed to investigate misconduct from employees, yet the team allegedly planned to collect data about the location of at least one American who had never been employed by ByteDance.

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Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition Technology To Stop Certain People From Entering

Madison Square Garden Using Facial Recognition To Stop Lawyers From Entering

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A state court building in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> unveiled a new art project that is not going over well online.
The sculpture, entitled &#8220;NOW,&#8221; was installed on the roof of the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State, First Department on Madison Avenue last week as part of an art exhibit from artist Shahzia Sikander. The statue is meant to represent the legacy of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but New Yorkers and other viewers on Twitter noticed that the statue is both unsightly and unsettling.
Corporate consultant Andrew Beck shared pictures of the art installation in a Twitter thread. &#8220;A new statue atop a New York City courthouse,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;The artist says it’s part of an &#8216;urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.’”
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— Andrew Beck (@AndrewBeckUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewBeckUSA/status/1618248543537606656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
The roof of the court building is lined with statues of famous lawgivers from history and legend. The statue is situated on the corner of the building, with brazen metal standing out against the weathered stone statues next to it. It depicts a woman with hair braided into long spirals like ram&#8217;s horns, and a web of tentacle-like protrusions at each arm, wearing a lace apron like the one Ginsburg wore over her robe, and standing on a pink lotus flower.
A profile for the statue written by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/arts/design/discrimination-sculpture-madison-park-sikander-women.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> said that the statue is the first female figure placed on the court building. “She [the statue] is a fierce woman and a form of resistance in a space that has historically been dominated by patriarchal representation,” Sikander told The New York Times. Sikander said she entitled the piece &#8220;NOW&#8221; because it is needed in the current year when abortion rights are being challenged in the wake of the Supreme Court returning abortion law to the states in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization.
Sikander has another piece with similar designs placed in the area. That statue, an 18-foot tall recreation of the same figure, but with a metal cage symbolizing a hoop skirt, is entitled &#8220;Witness&#8221; and is placed in Madison Square Park across from the court building. The two statues together are entitled, &#8220;Havah…to breathe, air, life.&#8221;
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“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.” Never fading words by Coretta Scott King. Inspired and humbled that Havah..to breathe, air, life’ ‘NOW’ &amp; ‘Witness’ are open on MLK day Jan16, 2023 ✊🏽❤️⚖️ <a href="https://twitter.com/MadSqParkNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MadSqParkNYC</a> <a href="https://t.co/TSpDl5C4TH">pic.twitter.com/TSpDl5C4TH</a>
— Shahzia Sikander (@shahziasikander) <a href="https://twitter.com/shahziasikander/status/1615129164465729536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
But Twitter users immediately pointed out that besides being visually unpleasant, the sculpture idolizes abortion and has pagan or even demonic motifs.
&#8220;They turned abortion into a pagan idol to worship and put it on a courthouse,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/BillyGribbin/status/1618289675122388992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1618289675122388992%7Ctwgr%5E30efe78ae6474befa57361f37ae990cc0100fe42%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FBillyGribbin2Fstatus2F1618289675122388992widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Billy Gribbin</a>, communications director for Republican Georgia Congressman Rich McCormick, wrote on Twitter.
&#8220;The New York Courthouse has added this aesthetic atrocity to its sculptures of great lawmakers,&#8221; Daily Wire podcast host <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewklavan/status/1618335013480828930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1618335013480828930%7Ctwgr%5E77b5ab54309b7133ba8f47f37b91ec38f0e65aa4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fandrewklavan2Fstatus2F1618335013480828930widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> wrote. &#8220;It is meant to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s pro-abortion stance by depicting a woman with demonic goat-horns who has clearly lost the power to reproduce. Or something.&#8221;
&#8220;The next Republican mayor of New York should not only remove but publicly destroy this monstrosity,&#8221; Daily Wire host <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1618358045003874306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1618358045003874306%7Ctwgr%5E3a37c265f9e10933f3eb042594bc830d02ba9df4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fmichaeljknowles2Fstatus2F1618358045003874306widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> added.
&#8220;New York has put an androgynous baphomet with tentacles digging into its own torso on top of the courthouse in order to ‘better reflect 21st century social mores.’” writer <a href="https://twitter.com/NoJesuitTricks/status/1618330987339059200?s=20&amp;t=K550eA55xVco3ZOA2HVw_w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Meeks</a> said. &#8220;Sounds about right.&#8221;
&#8220;[T]he ugliness is the point,&#8221; New Founding and American Firebrand digital director <a href="https://twitter.com/loganclarkhall/status/1618290699845373953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1618290699845373953%7Ctwgr%5Ec9a4b5813dfee00c9d3ccbaa2ab44f549fce81dc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Floganclarkhall2Fstatus2F1618290699845373953widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Logan Hall</a> added.
&#8220;What a visual desecration of the landscape,&#8221; America First Legal Foundation founder <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1618290002139701248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1618290002139701248%7Ctwgr%5Ea05c992adddc6075e77e9266e6cb27f1b7edc6db%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FStephenM2Fstatus2F1618290002139701248widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Miller</a> tweeted.
&#8220;WOW the baphomet/Aries symbolism is… a lot,&#8221; one Twitter user chimed in. &#8220;Especially given the opposite or sister sign Libra represents the scales of balance or ‘arms’ of Justice.&#8221;

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Four migrants bused to New York City from Texas were arrested for allegedly stealing more than $12,000 in items from Macy&#8217;s.
Wrallan Cabezas Meza, 19, Miguel Angel Rojas, 21, Rafael Rojas, 27, and Jose Garcia Escobar, 30, were detained after being tracked down by Nassau County Police. They allegedly drove away from the crime scene on January 9 in a 2006 BMW with a false license plate.
&#8220;All four defendants were charged with Grand Larceny in the 3rd Degree. Defendant Meza was issued multiple traffic citations,&#8221; the Nassau County Police Department said in a statement. &#8220;All four defendants were arraigned on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, at First District Court, 99 Main Street in Hempstead. Defendants Escobar and Rafael Rojas were released with no bail.&#8221;
The stolen items were reportedly returned to the Macy&#8217;s location at the Roosevelt Field Mall in East Garden City on Long Island.
&#8220;Here in Nassau County, our police department is going to be vigilant in making sure that anybody who commits a crime is tracked down, caught and arrested,&#8221; Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11669281/Migrants-bused-NYC-form-Texas-arrested-stealing-12K-Macys-store-Long-Island.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a Monday press conference.
The suspects told a Spanish-speaking Nassau County detective that they came to New York City on a bus from Texas, Detective Lt. Richard Lebrun <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/four-migrants-arrested-for-shoplifting-12k-from-ny-macys/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The report did not indicate when the four men arrived in New York City. Meza reportedly crossed the U.S. southern border on July 4, 2022, with the other three men entering the country in September, according to Nassau County police.
Two of the men, Miguel and Rafael Rojas, had been living at the Westin Hotel, which is housing migrants, on West 57th Street in Manhattan since their arrival to the city, according to police.
The arrests of the four migrants were announced shortly after New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams visited the border in El Paso, Texas, earlier this month. Adams argues that more federal assistance is needed at the border and to help migrants entering his city.
The Daily Wire also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-to-house-migrants-at-cruise-ship-terminal-mayor-eric-adams-confirms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Adams announced over the weekend that the city would temporarily house migrants at a cruise ship terminal to help handle the growing influx of asylum seekers. The mayor shared plans for the 1,000-person shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in a press release on Saturday.
“With more than 41,000 asylum seekers arriving in New York City since last spring and nearly 28,000 asylum seekers currently in our care, our city is at its breaking point,” Adams <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/050-23/mayor-adams-placement-new-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Texas has transported more than <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-disrupts-cartel-activity-along-bidens-open-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5,200 migrants</a> to New York City since August.
In addition, Texas has bused 9,100 migrants to the nation’s capital since April, more than 1,500 migrants to Chicago since August 31, and more than 890 migrants to Philadelphia since November 15.

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A bruised and battered Fox News meteorologist said Sunday that about eight teenagers had jumped him on a New York City subway train after he stopped them from harassing an older male.
Adam Klotz, 37, a meteorologist for FOX News Channel and FOX Business Network, posted a video on Instagram showing cuts and bruises on his face following the attack, which happened early Sunday morning on his way home on the No. 1 train after watching the New York Giants NFL playoff game at a bar.
&#8220;My side is worse, so much worse in my face,&#8221; Klotz said.
The altercation happened around 1:00 a.m. when the teenagers, allegedly smoking marijuana, attacked and approached the man on the train, police sources <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/22/fox-news-weatherman-beaten-on-nyc-subway-train/">told</a> The New York Post.
&#8220;I was like, &#8216;Yo, guys, cut that out,'&#8221; Klotz said. &#8220;And they decided, alright, if he&#8217;s not going to get it, you&#8217;re going to get it — And boy did they give it to me.&#8221;
Klotz said the teenager held him on the ground and bruised his ribs.
&#8220;They got their hits in,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;Where are the parents? Parents, watch your children.&#8221;
Klotz said the older gentleman he defended left without injury while the weatherman got x-rayed by medical professionals and treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Bellevue Hospital.
&#8220;I&#8217;m OK,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is all going to heal. So, it&#8217;s all good.&#8221;
Sources told The Post authorities caught three of the suspects — two 15-year-olds and a 17-year-old — after attempting to flee the subway train at the 18th Street station.
&#8220;Juvenile reports were prepared, and their parents were called to pick them up,&#8221; NYPD told The Post.
The NYPD spokesman added the department did not have the option to charge the suspects because of their ages, and the crime was technically classified as an apparent misdemeanor.
However, a 2019 law raised the age for a juvenile to be charged as an adult from 17 to 18 years old.
New York City crime increased on the subway by 30 percent and more than the 22 percent increase in general major crime across the city in 2022, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11664273/Fox-News-weatherman-Adam-Klotz-left-injured-beaten-teens-NYCs-subway.html">reported</a>.
Mayor Eric Adams said toward the end of last year that the city is &#8220;laser-focused&#8221; on fighting crime, which Bloomberg reported this year the department would spend an additional $20 million each month on police overtime.
&#8220;New York City! What a place. The Big Apple,&#8221; Fox News&#8217; weatherman said.
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New York City will temporarily house migrants at a cruise ship terminal to help handle the growing influx of asylum seekers, according to Democratic Mayor Eric Adams.
Adams shared plans for the 1,000-person shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in a press release on Saturday.
“With more than 41,000 asylum seekers arriving in New York City since last spring and nearly 28,000 asylum seekers currently in our care, our city is at its breaking point,” Adams <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/050-23/mayor-adams-placement-new-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“We continue to surpass both our moral and legal obligations and meet the needs of people arriving in New York, but as the number of asylum seekers continues to grow, we are in serious need of support from both our state and federal governments. This fifth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center will provide approximately 1,000 asylum seekers with a place to stay, access support, and get to their final destination,&#8221; the mayor added.
Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks III also noted that the addition of the shelter is the fifth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center.
“As the numbers and demographics shift, so does our approach. What remains is our focus on addressing their needs, providing them with critical services, and ensuring a foundation is there for them to begin building their new lives,&#8221; Banks said.
The city has already opened 77 hotels as emergency shelters, set up navigation centers to help migrants, and partnered to enroll children in public schools through Project Open Arms, among providing other forms of assistance.
Adams recently visited the southern border in El Paso, Texas, and declared a state of emergency last year over the surge in migrants. The mayor has repeatedly called for federal assistance, claiming that efforts have been blocked by Republicans.
“Just a few days ago, I was in El Paso to see for myself how the asylum seeker crisis is affecting our border states and our entire nation. What I saw was not a state problem or a city problem. It is a national problem, driven by global forces, impacting regular people,” Mr. Adams <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/nyregion/eric-adams-immigration-asylum.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a speech at the U.S. Conference of Mayors following his Texas trip.
“Every attempt to deal with immigration on a national level through legislation has been sabotaged, mostly by right-wing opposition. And cities are bearing the brunt of this failure,” he added.
Adams has also been a vocal opponent of Governor Doug Ducey (R-AZ) and Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) busing migrants to faraway cities.
Ducey&#8217;s busing program ended when he left office on January 2. As of mid-December, his office <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/texas-ariz-governors-bussed-16000-migrants-north-rcna61270" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it had sent 80 buses carrying 2,916 migrants to Washington, D.C.
Abbott&#8217;s busing plans have been more aggressive. Texas has transported more than 5,200 migrants to New York City since August.
In addition, Texas has bused 9,100 migrants to the nation&#8217;s capital since April, more than 1,500 migrants to Chicago since August 31, and more than 890 migrants to Philadelphia since November 15, <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-disrupts-cartel-activity-along-bidens-open-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the governor&#8217;s office.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-homeless-shelter-population-hits-record-numbers-following-influx-of-migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that New York City’s homeless shelter population reached record levels in October, with more than 60,000 people in its shelter system.
“This is not an everyday homelessness crisis, but a humanitarian crisis that requires a different approach, and these humanitarian emergency response centers will take on a multitude of looks with the similarities that they will all help triage and provide immediate support to arriving asylum seekers. We will continue to respond with care and compassion as we deal with this humanitarian crisis made by human hands,” Adams <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/741-22/mayor-adams-placement-family-focused-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time.

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Many cities that cracked down on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homelessness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homelessness</a> have been hit with legal challenges over their new restrictions.
New York City, Dallas, and other cities that tried to aggressively address their homeless problem — and the drug, crime, and public nuisance issues that accompany it — are now <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-cities-get-tough-on-homelessness-legal-battles-follow-11673960273?mod=us_lead_story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defending</a> their policies in court.
In New York City, civil rights groups are attempting to block Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; initiative to hospitalize homeless people who are severely mentally ill and appear to be a danger to themselves.
“If severe mental illness is causing someone to be unsheltered and a danger to themselves, we have a moral obligation to help them get the treatment and care they need,” Adams <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/nyc-to-involuntarily-commit-more-mentally-unstable-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> when he announced the plan.
In December, several civil rights groups <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-plan-to-involuntarily-hospitalize-some-mentally-ill-homeless-faces-legal-challenge-11670540243?mod=article_inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> a federal judge to block the policy, claiming it is unconstitutional and violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
New York&#8217;s policy sometimes involves confiscating homeless people&#8217;s belongings as they are removed from public property and taken to a hospital. The city&#8217;s move comes amid concerns that the city&#8217;s homeless crisis is becoming more visible and spiraling out of control.
Also last month, Dallas was <a href="https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-sued-for-banning-panhandlers-from-standing-on-medians-15486363" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> over its October policy restricting people hanging around road medians, where homeless people often panhandle. City officials said the policy is for public safety because people can get hit by passing cars. However, the homeless people and their advocates who sued the city argued the policy violates their First Amendment rights.
Albuquerque was <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/ap-new-mexico-city-sued-for-hounding-harassing-the-homeless/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> last month by homeless people and the ACLU of New Mexico for removing homeless encampments and arresting and fining people living on the street, allegedly violating their civil rights.
Similarly, Phoenix was <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/aclu-sues-city-of-phoenix-stop-sweeps-homeless-camp/75-232de857-bdf8-411d-9e13-e8250fe89d70" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> last month by the ACLU of Arizona over sweeps of a huge homeless encampment downtown.
“Rather than confront its housing crisis head-on and invest in sustainable solutions to homelessness, the City is terrorizing the very people it should be helping,” the complaint reads.
In San Francisco, which has one of the nation&#8217;s worst homeless and drug crises, homeless people and their advocates sued the city for fining and arresting homeless people as a way to get them out of public spaces. They also complained that the city throws out homeless people&#8217;s tents and other belongings without enough warning.
Recently, the Ninth Circuit federal appeals court has limited what some West Coast cities with severe homeless crises can do to address the problem if they can&#8217;t offer appropriate shelter.
“It is a serious, serious, problem, probably the biggest crisis we’re facing right now, and I think these decisions are at the heart of what has gone wrong here,” attorney Theane Evangelis, who <a href="https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/evangelis-theane/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> an Oregon city&#8217;s homeless policy in the 9th Circuit, told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-cities-get-tough-on-homelessness-legal-battles-follow-11673960273" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
“They’ve caused paralysis at a time when we need action,” Evangelis said.
A federal judge has temporarily banned San Francisco from taking those actions to combat the homeless issue, citing Ninth Circuit rulings.
Back in 2021, Austin was sued for not doing enough to address the city&#8217;s homeless problem. A group of Austin business owners and others <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/save-austin-now-business-owners-say-austin-is-failing-to-enforce-camping-ban-in-new-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the city for not enforcing its public property camping ban.

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New York City Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Adams</a> said Tuesday that four city-run health clinics would offer free abortion pills as early as tomorrow in an outlined so-called agenda for &#8220;women&#8217;s health&#8221; across the five boroughs.
&#8220;For too long, health and health care has been centered around men,&#8221; Adams said in a <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/037-23/mayor-adams-commits-making-new-york-city-future-women-s-health#/0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. “If men had periods, pap smears and menopause, they would get a paid vacation. And if men could get pregnant, we wouldn&#8217;t see Congress trying to pass laws restricting abortion.&#8221;
Adams, who said the city would become the model for women&#8217;s health care, detailed in the plan that the clinics dispensing the controversial pill would join public hospitals citywide that already offer medication abortion.
The four sites combined could give away up to 10,000 abortion pills annually designed for women to dodge insurance issues and bills that they could otherwise face in hospitals.
The mayor&#8217;s announcement comes just 24 hours after nearly two dozen attorneys general sent a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22-attorneys-general-urge-fda-to-reverse-abortion-pill-decision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Federal Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf urging the agency to reverse its decision to certify retail pharmacies to dispense abortion pills.
The letter argues that the distribution of abortion-inducing drugs threatens women&#8217;s health.
&#8220;The Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s decision to abandon commonsense restrictions on remotely prescribing and administering abortion-inducing drugs is both illegal and dangerous,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;In direct contravention of longstanding FDA practice and congressional mandate, the FDA&#8217;s rollback of important safety restrictions ignores both women&#8217;s health and straightforward federal statutes.&#8221;
Such medications used to induce abortions, Mifeprex and its generic Mifepristone Tablets, are approved by the FDA for up to 10 weeks gestation, as a woman&#8217;s health risk reportedly increases after that time.
When FDA officials first approved mifepristone in 2000, the federal agency admitted that the drug could pose &#8220;serious risks for women, including infection and bleeding,&#8221; the letter pointed out.
Officials later instituted several restrictions in 2007 as part of a Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy.
In November, four national medical associations and doctors filed a lawsuit against the federal government for illegally approving chemical abortion drugs that &#8220;harm&#8221; females.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing the case, accused FDA officials of &#8220;illegally&#8221; prioritizing abortion politics over science when it pushed for the legalization of the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in 2000.
The organization alleges the FDA could only authorize the drugs by characterizing pregnancy as an &#8220;illness&#8221; and arguing that these drugs provide a &#8220;meaningful therapeutic benefit.&#8221;
Lawyers further allege the federal agency never studied the drug&#8217;s safety and the potential impacts it could have on blocking hormone development in adolescent female bodies.
&#8220;Pregnancy is not an illness, and chemical abortion drugs don&#8217;t provide a therapeutic benefit—they end a baby&#8217;s life and they pose serious and life-threatening complications to the mother,&#8221; Julie Marie Blake, senior counsel of the organization, said in a <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/doctors-health-care-groups-sue-fda-approving-dangerous-chemical-abortion-drugs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. &#8220;The FDA never had the authority to approve these dangerous drugs for sale. We urge the court to listen to the doctors we represent who are seeking to protect girls and women from the documented dangers of chemical abortion drugs.&#8221;
Lawyers for the Biden administration told a federal judge Tuesday that the public would be harmed if the abortion pills were made unavailable.
&#8220;The public interest would be dramatically harmed by effectively withdrawing from the marketplace a safe and effective drug that has lawfully been on the market for twenty-two years,&#8221; the filing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/biden-fda-warns-judge-reversing-abortion-drugs-approval" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Since the historic overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling last summer by the Supreme Court, medication abortions have been sought after as an alternative abortion method.
According to the <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2022/02/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guttmacher Institute</a>, more than half of all “facility-based abortions” in the U.S. every year have been due to such drugs.

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