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arrow Members of the Strategic Response Group confronting a Black Trans Liberation march in November Scott Heins/Gothamist On a Thursday night in November, two days after the presidential election, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the Stonewall Inn for a march against police brutality. The event was one in a series of Black Trans Liberation marches, a recurring protest and pride parade held each week since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Unlike the previous iterations, which had proceeded without incident, this one was accompanied by scores of heavily ...

comments New York City's Department of Investigation released a report into the NYPD's handling of summer protests over the death of George Floyd Paul DiGiacomo, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association, issued a statement on Friday slamming the report  'The irony that the DOI Commissioner is appointed directly by the Mayor of New York City should not be lost on anyone,' DiGiacomo said  The report found that the NYPD deployed officers without sufficient training on policing protests Investigators also found that police used excessive force including baton and pepper spray use, mas...

NYPD undermined public trust with aggressive protest response, watchdog agency finds POLITICO 12/19/2020 By Erin Durkin © Seth Wenig, File/ AP Photo New York Police officers restrain protesters during a demonstration in the Brooklyn borough of New York. NEW YORK — The NYPD’s aggressive response to protests that swept the city after the death of George Floyd heightened tensions and undermined public trust in the ability of the police to protect the rights of citizens, a probe by the Department of Investigation has found. NYPD officers used “excessive enforcement” a...

NYPD used excessive force on George Floyd demonstrators and deployed officers who did not have protest training, report finds, as Mayor de Blasio says he 'takes full responsibility' New York City's Department of Investigation released a report into the NYPD's handling of summer protests over the death of George Floyd They found that the NYPD deployed officers without sufficient training on policing protests Investigators also found that police used excessive force including baton and pepper spray use, mass arrests and encircling protesters, known as 'kettling' The report also found the NYPD l...

Protests rocked the city in late May and early June after the Minneapolis death of George Floyd, a Black man who was caught on camera begging for help while officers knelt on him. Multiple cops now face charges in his death, but the public outrage over his anguished final moments sparked a nationwide reckoning with policing and social justice. At least one NYPD officer ultimately faced assault charges for shoving a protester during that violent period, which was so intense that the city imposed its first curfew since World War II. Since then, the debate over reform has intensified -- not just...