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“It's easy to forget after the high-living Sex-and-the-City years when champagne flowed in the gutters instead of blood, but the streets of New York can be merciless.”

The New York Forest Preserve includes the largest wilderness east of the Mississippi and is required by the State Constitution to be kept “Forever Wild.”

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The Supreme Court and the culture of police impunity its qualified immunity doctrine created is the real reason five cops felt they could kill Nichols on a public street, in front of cameras, and get away with it.

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