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April 18, 2021 Mayor Bill de Blasio this week weighed in on the killing of Daunte Wright, a young Black man fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., cop who says she mistook her gun for a taser. Subscribe "Why are people allowed to be police officers if they don't know how to handle their weapon?" he asked Monday during an interview with Ebro Darden on radio station Hot 97. Community leaders in Brooklyn, N.Y., want to ask the mayor and police brass the same thing, as they question the recent assignment of Chief John Chell to head up the Brooklyn North Detective Bureau. It marked the latest h...

Thu, Apr 1st 2021 3:30pm — Tim Cushing Qualified immunity is pure judicial cancer. This fact cannot be ignored. What began as a limited defense for decisions made in the heat of the moment has become the de facto response to civil rights lawsuits. The Supreme Court -- which conjured this new Section 1983 ejection seat out of thin air -- has only made it worse over the past few decades. Qualified immunity is more bulletproof than the Kevlar vests worn by those who summon its protections most frequently. Efforts have been made to dial this back, but so far, we've yet to see them come to frui...

Maya Wiley snags NYC mayoral endorsement from Rep. Nydia Velázquez Michael Gartland Mayoral hopeful Maya Wiley has locked down the endorsement of Rep. Nydia Velázquez, giving her campaign a boost as she attempts to secure public matching funds later this month. Velázquez (D-N.Y.), who represents parts of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, made the announcement Friday afternoon with Wiley on the Lower East Side. “Maya Wiley is a transformational leader who won’t just rebuild New York, but reimagine it,” Velázquez said. “Whether it’s taking the affordability crisis head...

Galvanized by the tragic killing of George Floyd and subsequent months of protests, the New York City Council held a hearing last week on a bill that would bypass one of the biggest obstacles to police accountability: “qualified immunity.” It should become law.

The hearing comes just weeks before a reform plan is due to be presented to Gov. Cuomo.