In the majority of cases where the CCRB found police officers using excessive force like car ramming or otherwise abusing their authority, officers have yet to receive any discipline.
It wasn’t easy to be a police officer in the midst of the protests that exploded across the city in May 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. It wasn’t easy to get hit with shouts and provocations and sometimes worse. But cops have a duty to be restrained even when they’re the target of a crowd’s ire. They have a duty to use force only when necessary to protect themselves and others.