NEW YORK, June 13 — The state of New York yesterday adopted a series of laws designed to put an end to police brutality against the African American community, a sign of the impact that nationwide protests over the George Floyd are having. Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo officially signed 10...
Demonstrators rally as Secret Services agents and NYPD officers stand guard outside Trump Tower during a protest in New York June 12, 2020. — Reuters pic
Among the measures is a law forbidding chokeholds being used by law enforcement officers that was named in memory of Eric Garner, a black man suffocated by New York police in 2014. After the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers on May 25, the city police department revealed that Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed him by kneeling on his neck, had been the subject of 18 abuse complaints in his 20 years on the job.Cuomo also announced yesterday he would be signing an executive order obliging the state’s almost 500 police departments to “develop a plan that reinvents and modernises police strategies and programmes in their community.
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