The Normal, Brooklyn, NY (2026)

05/18/2025

A Mexican navy ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge this evening during a training exercise, resulting in several people being seriously injuries and about 20 people sustaining minor injuries.

Emergency crews conducted search and rescue operations immediately, saving several people from the water.

An estimated 200 people were aboard the ship at the time of impact.

via compassobserver

08/31/2022

💰🚔 $100 million dollars has been awarded to a man that was left paralyzed from the neck down after being tased by a police officer.

Jerry Blasingame, 69, was panhandling in Atlanta and started running after he was approached by an officer. The officer then shot Blasingame with a taser, causing him to fall forward hitting his head on the ground, breaking his neck and suffering a brain injury.

A federal jury concluded the officer used excessive force during the incident. Meanwhile, Blasingame now requires around-the-clock medical care and has amounted up over $14 million dollars in medical expenses.

“Since he’s not under arrest, he can run or do whatever he wants to do,” the man’s attorney said. “Jerry then fell again, face forward, face planted in smashing his head, multiple facial fractures, brain injury and broke his neck.”

👉

08/30/2022

⚖️✏️ Sullivan Walter, 53 (left), has now been exonerated after spending over 36 years in prison for a r**e he didn’t commit. His exoneration was made possible thanks to the efforts of Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO).

IPNO says Walter was 17 years old when he was arrested, but "was prosecuted as an adult. This is the longest known wrongful incarceration of a juvenile in Louisiana history and the fifth longest in U.S. history.”

The only witness of the crime, the victim, mistakenly pinned Walter as the ra**st. Genetic evidence that would have cleared Walter, including blood and other bodily fluids from the crime scene, never made it to trial. Police also made conflicting statements of the crime which, again, never made it to trial.

“The lawyers and law enforcement involved acted as if they believed that they could do what they chose to a Black teenager from a poor family and would never be scrutinized or held to account,” IPNO said.

"This is not just about individuals and their choices, but the systems that let them happen.”

👉FOLLOW

08/27/2022

⚖️💰Ghislaine Maxwell is now being sued by the law firm that represented her for nearly $1 million dollars in unpaid legal fees.

The firm is also suing her brother after he allegedly misled the firm about payments that would be made. He repeatedly assured the team that they’d be compensated but seemed to make “sporadic” fractional payments.

While Ghislaine’s brother last made a $141,000 payment to the firm, the lawsuit alleges a large percentage of the legal fees have not been paid for.

The law firm had represented Ghislaine since 2015.

👉

08/25/2022

🔎❓BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein’s former boss, Steven Hoffenberg, has been found dead in his Connecticut home.

Police found his body rotting away after performing a wellness check and said the body was “in a state where a visual identification could not be made.”

Police added, “Every indication is that it is Mr. Hoffenberg. There’s nothing to suggest that it isn’t. We believe it’s him. We’re just waiting for dental records.”

Hoffenberg was formerly Epstein’s boss at Towers Financial Corp, a company that ran a ponzu scheme, where Hoffenberg and company investors previously noted that Epstein helped carry out the ponzu scheme which eventually landed Hoffenberg in prison for 18 years.

In a 2018 lawsuit, company investors said Epstein “knowingly and intentionally utilized funds he fraudulently diverted and obtained from this massive Ponzi scheme for his own personal use to support a lavish lifestyle.”

👉FOLLOW

08/24/2022

💰✏️ NEW: Kobe Bryant’s widow, Vanessa, has been awarded $16 million dollars after a federal jury found Los Angeles County violated her rights.

First responders took photos of the human remains at the site of the helicopter crash and shared the pictures with others internally, an act that the federal jury determined Vanessa Bryant and other co-plaintiff’s rights and caused emotional distress.

Some officers and first responders were found to have shared images with people they didn’t know and casually shared the images in a group chat while playing video games.

👉

08/24/2022

🇺🇸💸 NEW: President Biden announced student load relief in the form of forgiving $10,000 in student loans for those making under $125,000.

Pell Grant recipients will receive relief of up to $20,000.

👉FOLLOW

08/23/2022

🇺🇸📚 The White House is expected to announce the cancelation of up to $10,000 of student loans for borrowers that are earning less than $125,000 per year.

The Biden administration has, on multiple occasions, mentioned their support for canceling up to $10,000 but have yet to make a formal announcement on the matter.

That formal commitment is expected to be made sometime later this week but has not yet finalized the exact dollar amount that will be forgiven.

👉FOLLOW

08/21/2022

✏️🇸🇬 Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong confirmed his country will repeal a ban on gay s*x, but will continue to ban gay marriage.

The PM said during a speech, “The government will repeal Section 377A and decriminalize s*x between men. I believe this is the right thing to do, and something that most Singaporeans will accept".

“Let me reassure everyone that in handling the issue, the government will continue to uphold families as the basic building blocks of society,” he added.

“We will keep our policies on family and marriage unchanged and maintain the prevailing norms and social values of our society.”

👉FOLLOW

🇸🇬

08/19/2022

✏️🇺🇸 New York has signed a law making workplace terminology more inclusive by replacing “antiquated” gender-specific terms like “salesman” with gender neutral terms like “salesperson”.

Previously, the state’s real estate law frequently referred to "salesmen" and used many gender-specific words he, him, and his while having no reference to “saleswomen” and only a few references to “salespeople”.

“Jobs have no gender, but unfortunately, many of our state’s laws still use gendered language when discussing professions that are practiced by people of all genders,” a New York State Senator said.

The bill’s sponsor, Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell, says, “We want our workplaces to reflect the diversity of New York, and the best way to achieve that goal is by making sure all realtors feel that they belong and the profession is accessible.”

👉FOLLOW

08/18/2022

🍗📉 The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that the price index for chicken wings has dropped to a four-year low.

The average wholesale price of 1 pound of chicken wings lowered to $1.68 last month, and is expected to continue to decrease this month before likely increasing during football season.

👉FOLLOW

08/17/2022

🔫 🇺🇸 New York’s governor has made it illegal to sell toy guns that are realistic-looking and finished with a black, blue, silver or aluminum color that imitates a real gun.

Instead, toy guns can be “white, bright red, bright orange, bright yellow, bright green, bright blue, bright pink, bright purple, or transparent,” according to the new law.

"Restricting these realistic-looking devices will ensure misleading and potentially dangerous devices are off our streets, keeping kids, law enforcement and all New Yorkers safe,” the governor said.

📷 NYAG Eric Schneiderman

The Normal

05/18/2025

08/31/2022

08/30/2022

08/27/2022

08/25/2022

08/24/2022

08/24/2022

08/23/2022

08/21/2022

08/19/2022

08/18/2022

08/17/2022

Address

Website

Alerts

Contact The Business

Shortcuts

Share

Category