The 234 Apartment

SACRAMENTO -- When Sacramento police supervisors first reviewed the body cam video connected to their raid of Zityrua Abraham's apartment, the department told FOX40 nothing seen warranted an internal investigation. Abraham has now made a citizen's request for one, and the video has been made public. One of four clips released shows the moment Abraham says police went too far -- a moment she and her neighbors told FOX40 about exclusively the day after it happened -- the moment she says she was tossed down on her 7- month pregnant belly in a raid of the wrong house. Four days into the tenure of a new police chief, the body cam video FOX40 asked for a month ago is available. "My first reaction was..." said Abraham, looking down. "I was shocked a little bit and I was just irritated." Shocked and irritated because Abraham doesn't understand why there's no straight on view of her hitting the ground, since she took down the badge numbers of at least ...

T wo weeks ago, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge handed down a decision designed to strike fear in the hearts of landlords. Justice James d’Auguste ordered that an independent receiver be appointed to manage two Midtown residential buildings where the landlords allegedly allowed illegal Airbnb rentals to occur. The case, which began when the city sued the landlords in February 2015, has become one of the battlegrounds in a larger war between city enforcement agencies and short- term rental sites like Airbnb. Airbnb, which was recently valued at $31 billion, refuses to release the exact addresses of hosts who break the law by renting their entire apartment for less than 30 days without being present. Without the addresses and names of Airbnb violators , the city mostly targets the owners of buildings that rack up the most illegal hotel complaints from 311 calls and the New York City Department of Buildings. “This entire model—and it was intentional [by the city]—is complaint-drive...