The city of Rochester has suspended police officers seen in body-camera videos spraying a chemical irritant in the face of a distraught and handcuffed 9-year-old girl, officials announced Monday. The city did not specify how many officers were suspended. The suspensions will last at least until an internal police investigation is completed. The action was announced as community outrage swelled following the release of footage Sunday showing officers restraining and scolding the girl, who was screaming for her father. At one point, an officer is heard telling her to stop acting like a child, to which she cried, I am a child.
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ACLU elects first Black board president with NYU Law School professor
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The American Civil Liberties Union national board announced NYU law professor Deborah Archer has been elected to head the organization. Photo courtesy ACLU
Feb. 1 (UPI) The American Civil Liberties Union s national board announced Monday that New York University School of Law professor Deborah Archer would be the group s new president, the first Black person to lead the organization s board of directors.
Archer, a civil rights lawyer, scholar and teacher brings with her a wealth of experience on racial justice and constitutional matters, the ACLU said in a statement.
Mabre Stahly-Butts, a City Council appointee to the independent police oversight board, said the matrix setting out the penalties is “meaningless” and said the board “was swallowing and being hand-fed a policy from the NYPD.”
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Civil rights activists have successfully pushed for bans on police use of facial recognition in cities like Oakland, San Francisco, and Somerville, Massachusetts. Now, a coalition led by Amnesty International is setting its sights on the nation’s biggest city New York as part of a drive for a global moratorium on government use of the technology.
Amnesty’s #BantheScan campaign is backed by Legal Aid, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and AI for the People, among other groups. After New York, the group plans to target New Delhi and Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia.