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"Illegal weapons are flooding our city's streets," the eerie voice says amongst pictures of AK-47s. "Out of state gun hoarders have made it all too easy to acquire an illegal gun if the price is right. It is our job as professional police officers to legally detect and remove guns by arresting the offenders. This important task ensures the public's safety."

So begins the video presented to a Manhattan court this week by NYPD attorneys. The footage was used as a defense in Floyd v. City of New York, the case that seeks to upend stop and frisk as an unconstitutional and biased infringement on civilian rights. It's shown to officers in training and basically runs as a 'How To' for the controversial procedure.

And, boy, does it make you uncomfortable.

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Courtesy NYPD

Because the NYPD has video this time.

Police said that the suspect sexually assaulted two women roughly two months apart. During the first attack, which took place on February 1, the suspect grabbed a 39-year-old woman walking down Woodbine Street in Bushwick, pushed her down, and grabbed her breasts and behind. The survivor was able to fight off her attacker, and he fled on foot. Video of the suspect below.

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Bow chicka wow wowzer: a new study suggests that sex can lead to love.

Yes, you read that correctly.

As Jezebel's insightful Lindy West explains, researchers mapped the parts of the brain "stimulated by feelings of love and by feelings of sexual arousal."

What they found?

As per MSNBC: "What they discovered was a bit surprising -- love and sexual desire both activate the striatum, showing a continuum from sexual desire to love. Each feeling impacts a different area of the striatum."

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The video above is from Occupy Wall Street's Goldman Sachs protest at the World Financial Center this morning, where 17 people were arrested. Watch starting at around the 2:00 mark. The photographer, who's been identified as New York Times freelancer Robert Stolarik, is blocked repeatedly from getting photos of arrests happening in the atrium by cops, even though he has a press badge.

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Remember how Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was heckled by Occupy protesters at Columbia this week? There's now video of the incident online, via Democracy Now! reporter Ryan Devereaux.

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Is that a tramp stamp too?

By now, you have certainly heard about the lovely Los Angeles woman who pepper-sprayed her fellow shoppers on Black Friday, over discounted Xboxes. Or the hot deals on cheap yoga pants that inspired a punching match at Victoria's Secret in Pennsylvania. Or the Arizona grandfather who was bodyslammed and bloodied, after his grandson got trampled. Or maybe you just heard about all the rest of the father-tasering, food-court gunplay, and consumer nonsense that took place on November 25! But did you hear the one about the Wal-Mart waffle mini-riot?

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Never gets old! An unhinged (drunk) business-y guy loses his cool at some Occupy Wall Streeters who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The best part is when they start chanting "We love you!" at about 1:50 until about 2:30 when the guy smacks another dude's hat off his head.

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The great Starbucks bathroom scandal of 2011 finally has its Next Media Animation treatment. Even though it was never really a story to begin with and we can all continue to use Starbucks bathrooms at will.

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The video above by journalist Luke Rudkowski is the most comprehensive we've seen of what was happening inside Zuccotti Park and the immediate environs on Monday night. Rudkowski appears to have been one of the only reporters to get inside the park, though as you can see at around the five-minute mark, he was quickly made to leave.

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Mayor Bloomberg appeared on Morning Joe this morning and was unusually generous about Occupy Wall Street, though he "doesn't know what a movement is."

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