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Shortly before 4 a.m., after numerous objections from Republicans asserting baseless allegations of voter fraud and the ransacking of the Capitol by a mob of Trump-supporting insurrectionists, Congress certified the results of the 2020 presidential election, officially ratifying Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the next President and Vice-President of the United States.
Both the Senate and the House resumed the certification process shortly after 8 p.m., after getting the all-clear from the Sergeant-at-Arms that it was safe to return to their chambers, which they had hastily vacated some six hours early after rioters stormed the Capitol (see below). Picking up where they left off, the Senate and House resumed debate over objections to the vote count in Arizona, which Biden won by a narrow margin of roughly 11,000 votes.
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New York City Police Commissioner Has “Unchecked Power” Over Officer Discipline
New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board is an independent agency charged with investigating complaints of abuse by police officers. While the board can recommend penalties and, in some cases, can present evidence directly to a New York Police Department hearing officer, the police commissioner has the final say. By law, the commissioner has the power to downgrade or even dismiss discipline, even in the most serious cases handled by the CCRB.
Those decisions have long been shielded from scrutiny by state law.
Through records made public this summer, ProPublica has pieced together details of dozens of cases in which the police commissioner stepped in after the CCRB concluded that officers had wrongly punched, kicked, choked, pepper-sprayed, tasered, searched or otherwise abused civilians. See the CCRB’s summaries of over 80 of these cases, or keep scrolling for a more detailed look at som