The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/ithaca-police-department/)
For months, activists in Ithaca have rallied to defund the police, citing the mistreatment of marginalized people, particularly Black and Indigenous people of color. But the city government has largely pushed back on these calls as the police department has shrunk, stressing the continued need for officers.
Cornell’s Prof. Lance Salisbury, law — and Green’s defense attorney — told the court Monday that Green has no previous convictions, according to The Ithaca Voice.
At approximately 6:54 p.m., victim said she was struck from behind in the head by an unknown person. After she fell to the ground, the attacker continued to hit her in the face and attempted to steal her purse, an Ithaca Police Department release said.
Despite the number of witnesses, the Nazaire murder investigation, unlike the investigation of group fight that occurred in May, has so still not yielded any suspects.
“Perhaps you saw something trivial or inconsequential, but to our investigators it might just be that one piece of key evidence that helps to sort out just exactly what happened,” Barber said in the release.
Wu was discovered by staff members and appeared to have been dead for several days, potentially more than four.
Police searched Spradlin’s vehicle and found 26 grams of crack cocaine, eight grams of heroin, a stun gun, a “ninja” star and $8,050 in U.S. Savings Bonds believed to have been stolen in a local burglary, according to the release.
An officer stopped the car — which the driver, Khalifa Middleton, was operating with a loud muffler and a only a permit — at the 800 block of West Buffalo Street at 7:32 p.m.
After arriving on the scene, officers searched the area and discovered many materials commonly used in the production of methamphetamine, according to the release.
Tompkins County Judge John C. Rowley set bail at $250,000 cash or $500,000 bond.