NYPD Training Document Shows How A Terrorist Response Group Was Weaponized To Attack Protesters
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NEW YORK—On Nov. 14, just after 12 p.m. on the west border of City Hall Park, the sounds of pots, pans, noisemakers, and chanting rang through the air.
Internal city documents show slow responses to mass looting, as NYPD’s heavily militarized riot squad cracked down on protests.
Miller also noted that only 69 of the 976 complaints made against individual officers last June and July named SRG officers, which he suggested “may be due to the advanced training SRG officers receive in team tactics for arrests that are specifically geared to reduce injuries to those being arrested and to the police officers arresting them.” Yet the SRG was heavily involved in some of the most brutal repression of protests in the wake of Floyd’s killing last summer, including the violent arrests of at least 263 people police had trapped in the streets at a June 4 protest in the Bronx...
Overall crime is up 2.4 percent from the same time last year There is a 36 percent increase in murders and 35 percent hike in auto thefts On Monday, a five-year-old girl was grazed by a bullet in a random shooting A tourist from Kansas City was also recently grazed by a bullet in Times Square Meanwhile, a retired crime reporter was beaten on Easter Sunday in Harlem Over the summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $1 billion cut to the NYPD This week, de Blasio claimed that New Yorkers were not living in fear amid the current surge in crime, which shows no signs of dwindling soon