NBC New York: Homeless Men to Get Compensation After City Chucked Out IDs, Medication: NYCLU

The city is set to pay up after trashing and crushing the personal belongings of three homeless New Yorkers as they looked on helplessly.

Just over a year after the three men had their medications and birth certificates thrown into a trash truck and crushed by police and sanitation workers, they will be compensated, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) said.

Floyd Parks, Timmy Hall and Jesus Morales were sleeping near the entrance of a school building in East Harlem on a rainy Friday in October 2015 when the incident happened, NYCLU said. Read more here.