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Late last week, the city Department of Investigation released a scathing report charging the NYPD with overreacting during last spring and summer’s eruption of protests over police brutality and racial injustice after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Its 115 pages read like a bad flashback to 2004.
Here was the DOI detailing how cops had hemmed in and then arrested large groups of protesters just like they did during the Republican National Convention of 2004. And here was the DOI, recounting how legal observers and journalists wrongfully wound up in police custody.
Just like in 2004.
“It is deja vu all over again in some ways,” DOI Commissioner Margaret Garnett acknowledged, citing instances of over-policing during this year’s racial justice protests that mirrored NYPD actions taken during the RNC and seven years later when the Occupy Wall Street movement massed in Lower Manhattan.
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The New York Police Department was caught off guard by the size of the spring protests after the killing of George Floyd and resorted to aggressive disorder control methods that stoked tensions and stifled free speech, the city s inspector general said in a report released on Friday.
The Department of Investigation report followed a six-month probe that focused on the NYPD s institutional planning and response to the May and June protests after Mr Floyd s killing by police in Minneapolis, rather than on the actions of individual officers.
Police union leader sounds off: I am not Derek Chauvin 02:51 (CNN)New York Police Department officials did not anticipate the large number of protesters or violence that came at them during the George Floyd demonstrations and that, combined with insufficient staffing and lack of training, led to poor judgment and excessive force, according to a report released Friday.
The city Department of Investigation, appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to analyze the NYPD s response into the Floyd demonstrations in late May and into much of June, released their 115-page report on Friday.
And while the report acknowledges that emotions among protesters ran high and spilled over into abuse and violence against police officers, the report also says NYPD officers engaged in actions that were unprofessional or excessive.
NEW YORK – A sweeping report from New York City s inspector general found that the New York Police Department lacked a clearly defined strategy in its handling of the George Floyd protests this summer and that its use of force heightened tensions.
While protests were largely peaceful and most officers actions were appropriate, there were several deficiencies in the department s response that undermined public confidence in the NYPD’s discharge of its responsibility to protect the rights of citizens to engage in lawful protest, the New York City Department of Investigation said in the 115-page report released Friday.
George Floyd s death on Memorial Day in Minneapolis sparked nationwide unrest calling for racial justice and police reform. In New York, demonstrators spent days in the streets during late May and early June, demanding changes to their own city s police force and an end to systemic racism.