New York Times
Video Is Said to Show the Moments Before a Suspected Gang Rape in Brooklyn
1/13/2016

“What are we really doing here?” asked Kenneth Montgomery, the lawyer for Denzel Murray, 14. “Have we not learned our lessons from the Central Park Five?”

A smartphone video that its owner and defense lawyers said showed a brief verbal encounter before a suspected gang rape at a Brooklyn playground emerged on Tuesday, another development in an increasingly complex inquiry that has roiled the city.

Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said the Police Department should have notified the public more quickly of the alleged attack, a contention that the mayor had made on Monday.



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Variety
The Painful Reality I Faced As A Young Black Attorney
2/23/2017

Determined to see the other side, I was “the spook who sat by the door.” The revelations I made confirmed everything that I had ever thought about America and white supremacy. However, I underestimated the insidious nature of white supremacy and America’s commitment to Black, social, political, and economic alienation.



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NY DAILY NEWS
EXCLUSIVE: Rookie NYPD officer who shot Akai Gurley in Brooklyn stairwell was texting union rep as victim lay dying
12/5/2014

Protesters rally for justice in the death of Akai Gurley, fatally struck by a cop’s bullet in the pitch-black stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project.

“I would be surprised if it is not at least presented to a grand jury,” said Kenneth Montgomery, a lawyer for Gurley’s parents. “It’s a debacle and it speaks of criminal negligence.”



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NY DAILY NEWS
Alleged rape victim’s attorneys to D.A.: Arrest Sanford Rubenstein now
10/21/2014

A lawyer for the alleged rape victim of lawyer Sanford Rubenstein sent a pointed message to prosecutors: Put him in handcuffs now.

 

“Every day that has passed since the occurrence has only served to marginalize the complainant and the sexual assault she suffered at the hands of Mr. Rubenstein,” read the two-page Tuesday letter from attorney Kenneth Montgomery.

 

“(The woman), a victim of sexual assault, is requesting that the New York County District Attorney’s office authorize the New York Police Department to arrest Sanford Rubenstein.”



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