Hasani Gittens is a news editor at NBCNews.com. In that role he assigns, edits, reports and writes news stories, and manages a team of reporters covering mainly the evening hours. Gittens, a WNBC veteran, joined NBCNews.com in January 2013. Before that he worked at The Daily — News Corp's short-lived \"iPad newspaper\" — where he spent two years also as a news editor.
Prior to that, he worked at WNBC as the managing editor of the station's website, and even longer ago he spent eight years as a reporter and eventually an editor for the New York Post.
Gittens lives in Queens, New York.
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","url":"http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/newscms/2014_15/313911/140409-alex-hribal-jms-1925_1bf194879f8d1ff8c7775985d11ec777.jpg","credit":"Keith Srakocic","source":"AP","alt_text":"Image: Alex Hribal","width":2500,"height":1675,"title":"Image: Alex Hribal"}},{"body":[{"type":"p","html":"The self-styled "toughest sheriff in America" is prepared to accept a federal judge's finding that he and his Arizona department racially profiled Latinos in violation of the U.S. Constitution, court documents showed Monday."},{"type":"p","html":"Attorneys for Maricopa County submitted a draft "corrective statement" (PDF) in U.S. District Court in Phoenix acknowledging that the judge had found constitutional violations and stipulating that Joe Arpaio, the county's swaggering sheriff for more than 20 years, wouldn't appeal some of the findings."},{"type":"p","html":"The turnabout is a dramatic one for the 80-year-old Arpaio, who's insisted that his department never racially profiled Latinos as illegal immigrants while scores of lawsuits made their way through the courts and the U.S. Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation."},{"type":"p","html":""},{"type":"image","url":"http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/newscms/2014_16/323801/140414-arpaio-jms-2155_4e838b8d6821bb00dc2edf47aa0cdb99.jpg","caption":"Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will sign a federal court document agreeing not to appeal a judge's finding that his department targeted Latinos for special attention during some traffic stops, county attorneys told the court.","credit":"Ross D. Franklin","source":"AP file","title":"Image: Joe Arpaio","alt_text":"Image: Joe Arpaio","width":2500,"height":1739},{"type":"p","html":"The document was filed in a class-action lawsuit in which U.S. District Judge Murray Snow found in May 2013 that the sheriff's office had systematically detained Latinos "solely on suspicion that they were in the United States without authorization" and had targeted them for special attention in traffic stops."},{"type":"p","html":"Last month, Snow hauled Arpaio and his chief deputy, Jerry Sheridan, into court to rebuke them for producing training videos for their deputies trivializing and misrepresenting his legal findings."},{"type":"p","html":"The "corrective statement" agrees to properly represent the judge's findings in communications with deputies — telling them that mere belief that someone might be in the U.S. illegally doesn't justify detaining him or her without some other reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed."},{"type":"p","html":"But beyond acknowledging the ruling, the legal filing goes further: It states that while the sheriff's office will continue its appeal of Snow's ruling finding racial profiling in traffic stops in general, "we are not appealing the Court's finding that that MCSO violated the constitutional rights of Latinos during saturation patrols" — in which officers flood a targeted geographic area in a concentrated law enforcement operation."},{"type":"p","html":"Moreover, even if the department wins its larger appeal, the finding that Maricopa d eputies racially profiled Latinos in the targeted stops "will not be altered," the statement stipulates."},{"type":"p","html":"The sheriff's office and the county attorney's office didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. 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When they do, it can be a spectacular sight: The darkened moon takes on a reddish glow because of the sunlight refracted by Earth's atmosphere."},{"type":"p","html":"The last total lunar eclipse took place in December 2011, but we're co ming up on a series of four such events, known as a tetrad, which is dictated by a recurrence of the right orbital parameters. 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Espenak lays out the details on NASA's eclipse-centric Web site."},{"type":"p","html":"Unlike solar eclipses , lunar eclipses are visible to half the world at the same time. This time around, North America is prime territory, but portions of the eclipse can be seen from parts of South America, Europe and Asia just before sunrise, and parts of Asia and the Pacific just after sunset."},{"type":"p","html":"You may have heard all those warnings about protecting your eyes during a solar eclipse — but a lunar eclipse is totally different, and totally safe. Look all you want. Want a closer look? Use binoculars. Want to take a picture? Espenak tells you how."},{"type":"p","html":"Even if the skies are cloudy, you can get in on the show over the Web and via social media. To keep up with the stream, follow the hashtag #eclipse and keep an eye on NASA's Facebook page."},{"type":"p","html":""},{"type":"image","url":"http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/i/newscms/2014_15/319391/140411-coslog-map_0c137556ef44a7436cbaabc658e954bf.jpg","caption":"Use this map to determine whether the moon sets or rises during any stage of April's eclipse. Because an eclipsed moon is always full, moonset or moonrise happens in a very bright sky.","credit":"","source":"Sky & Telescope","title":"Image: Eclipse map","alt_text":"Image: Eclipse map","width":960,"height":540},{"type":"p","html":"NASA is planning an "Up All Night" chat that starts at 1 a.m. ET Tuesday and continues until the eclipse is completely finished, around 5 a.m. ET. NASA astronomer Mitzi Adams and astrophysicist Alphonse Sterling will be available to answer your questions. A live Ustream view of the lunar eclipse, provided by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, will accompany the commentary."},{"type":"p","html":"You can also tune in eclipse coverage on NASA TV starting at 1 a.m., and share your eclipse pics via NASA's Flickr group."},{"type":"p","html":"The Slooh virtual observatory is planning its own webcast at 2 a.m. ET Tuesday, featuring live feeds from various locations and commentary from host Paul Cox and astronomer Bob Berman. Guests include Timothy Ferris, author of "Seeing in the Dark"; and Duncan Copp, producer of the award-winning film "In the Shadow of the Moon." Tune in the show via Slooh.com, YouTube or the Slooh iPad app, and ask questions using the hashtag #slooh."},{"type":"p","html":"The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 has a webcast as well, starting at 2:30 a.m. ET."},{"type":"ul","html":"Alan Boyle is the science editor for NBC News Digital. 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