The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/ithaca-police/page/2/)
Cadji Ferguson, who was controversially arrested last April for his alleged involvement in an Ithaca Commons fight, was acquitted of disorderly conduct by Tompkins County Judge Scott Millerthe, who cited lack of evidence in a bench trial.
Both Ithacans charged said that they hadn’t expected their cases to go to trial. In the meantime, a community movement has risen up around them both.
Videos from the early April arrest in the Ithaca commons show a chaotic scene. Svante Myrick ’09 shared the footage with the public following demands from the community and accusations against the Ithaca Police Department of racial bias.
After nearly 28 years of service, Ithaca Police Chief Pete Tyler will retire from his post on May 31 after spending just two years as the City’s top cop.
The Ithaca Police Department responded to an incident of a subject with a handgun Thursday afternoon. The subject, Jalin Boutwell, “pointed a handgun at multiple people,” at West Village Place IPD said in a statement.
Officers arrested the woman on the Commons shortly after bars closed Saturday morning, tackling her to the ground in front of a small crowd.
Over the course of the last two months, local police charged two men with larceny for motorcycle thefts that occurred on Cornell’s East Campus. Four motorcycles were reported stolen in October 2018, valuing together at about $7,500, Cornell Police said.
When officers attempted to handcuff the subject, he “punched one officer in the face” and attacked another, causing the officers to fall, the IPD media release said.
An Ithaca police officer claims the City of Ithaca and Ithaca Police Chief John Barber discriminated against her based on her sex, gender and sexual orientation and retaliated against her when she complained.
Firefighters searched the building, checking to see if the fire had spread to other parts of the house and rerouted traffic around the area.