But she says any such relationship with the police department does not exist.
We cannot afford to be partners with local police until we can trust they are performing in good trust and and honoring their pledge to eradicate biased decision making against people of color.
Carter acknowledges she served on the task force for the draft reform plan, but she says that doesn t equate to a relationship with the NAACP. She says they ve also commented during the recent public hearing on the plan, and have had conversations with Police Chief Kenton Buckner and Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens.
It s like dating. You can go on a few dates, but it doesn t mean you re going steady. We have to establish that. I feel confident we can, Carter said.
‘Outraged,’ a ‘sock in gut’: Prosecutors, U.S. Rep. Katko, police stunned after Trump frees kingpin in Syracuse cop killing
Updated Jan 21, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
John Duncan in his office at the U.S. Attorney s Office in Syracuse in June 2015, shortly before his retirement.John O Brien
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Syracuse, NY The federal prosecutor who sent a drug kingpin to prison for orchestrating the murder of a Syracuse police officer expressed outrage Wednesday at President Trump’s surprise decision to release him from a life sentence.
“I’m kind of outraged that President Trump has granted him a commutation,” said retired Assistant U.S. Attorney John Duncan, a Republican who handled the trial personally.
Syracuse, alongside other Covid-stressed U.S. cities, saw alarming rise in murders in 2020
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 14, 2021
Nine people were shot after gunmen opened fire at the end of Rye Day, a peaceful community birthday party attended by hundreds of people, around 8:30 p.m. June 20, 2020, at Performance Park on Syracuse s Near West Side. Chariel Osorio, 17, died days after the shooting. In this photo, several people agonized by fear stand outside an ambulance preparing to rush a wounded victim to the hospital.Ellen M. Blalock
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Syracuse, N.Y. As the coronavirus pandemic raged in Syracuse and across the United States in 2020, another deadly danger plagued communities: homicides.
Syracuse cop with checkered past sued again for brutality, this time by a retired jail doctor
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
Mark Johnston, front, is filing a lawsuit against the Syracuse Police Department for alleged brutality. He claims officer Vallon Smith wrongly beat him up and broke his ribs last year on Mountain Goat Sunday after a dispute over a parking space. Behind him is attorney Jesse Ryder. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
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Now, Smith faces another brutality lawsuit: this time, by a former doctor at the county lockup.
Dr. Mark Johnston, 65, of Syracuse, alleges that Smith needlessly punched and tackled him at last year’s Mountain Goat Run downtown. Johnston was the medical administrator for 10 years at the Jamesville penitentiary. Police have said Johnston was the initial aggressor and that Smith was coming to the aid of another officer.