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McMahon, city D.A.s call on state legislators to make spitting on transit workers a misdemeanor crime
Updated Mar 04, 2021;
Posted Mar 03, 2021
District Attorney Michael E. McMahon, at a press conference Wednesday, calls for stricter penalties against people who spit on transit workers. (Photo courtesy of Pete Donohue/TWU Local 100)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. District Attorney Michael E. McMahon and the city’s other four top prosecutors called on state legislators Wednesday to takes steps to protect the city’s transit workers.
McMahon, alongside Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and Michelle Bayer, deputy chief of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s Trial Division, joined in calls of support of an amendment to the state’s penal code that would make spitting on a transit worker a misdemeanor.
reporter: the union, the association of commuter rail employees turned up representative showed up after the ntsb press conference, discussed details about what the train driver, train engineer had said and the ntsb says this is breaking the confidentiality agreement, this is one of the unions working with them on this investigation and that breaking this confidentiality means they will have to be excluded from this investigation. we heard from the lawyer as well. who says his says that the engineer had a good night s sleep before the accident. we got a page entrain wreck, five cars on its side. reporter: we re hear for the first time from the firefighter as they arrived on the scene of the deadly train derailment in the bronx. this morning, new detalls about the man at the controls. the train s engineer, william, billy rockefeller, his union
nic robertson is in the bronx overlooking the crash site with much more. good morning, nic. reporter: good morning, kate. the ntsb says the association of commuter rail employees did break the confidentiality agreement to be part of the investigation into this accident. they say that because their representative came along, talked after the ntsb press conference, it wasn t so much what he said but the sort of things he was explaining and the insights he wassive gooding. they have excluded that union from being part of the investigation. we heard from the lawyer of the train engineer and he has told us that the engineer actually had a good night s sleep before the derailment. we have a major train wreck, five cars on its side. reporter: we re hearing, for the first time, from the
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