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An emotional Patrick Ryder said he won't resign after growing calls from community activists for him to step down for comments he made in Newsday blaming the so-called "broken homes" of Blacks and Hispanics for the lack of diversity in the police department.

Events were planned in Hempstead, Freeport, Wyandanch, Southampton, and other communities Islandwide.

The men, aged 20 and 22, were taken to a local hospital with serious injuries, Suffolk police said.

President Joe Biden announced that Champ, the older of the family's two dogs, had died "peacefully at home."

Fewer than 900 people voted in the 2019 election when Jesse Warren beat Michael Irving by less than 50 votes, but this time around the incumbent was able to declare "We did it!" after garnering 1,064 votes to his challenger's 604.

The men accepted bribes and kickbacks, including cash, international travel and an RV, from companies that received millions of dollars in contracts from the London-based energy giant, according to a criminal complaint filed in Brooklyn this week.

Police said the driver, who is a security guard, had two knives, a retractable baton and "a ballistic vest with a police patch on the back."

Prosecutors said Shatik Canady, 43, got into a dispute with a Wyandanch man near the rear parking lot of Brewhaus Pub, hit the man with an ice scraper and then struck him with his car.