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Schenectady police investigate protesters over graffiti, broken glass | The Daily Gazette
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Protesters on Tuesday used sidewalk chalk to get their message across at the main entrance to the Schenectady Police Department in the wake of the shooting death of Daunte Wright by a Minnesota police officer. The f k 12 reference has been associated with the long ago police television program Adam-12, and is sometimes used as a reference to the police. The Gazette obscured profanity in the images.
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Schenectady Police Chief Eric Clifford said the department is opening a criminal mischief investigation into a protest Tuesday evening that ended with a broken glass panel on a door at the police station and profanities written in chalk on the building.
All of Us leads protest for ban on police knee-to-head holds | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY NAACP of Schenectady President, the Rev. Nicolle Harris, told protesters outside of City Hall Thursday that she’s received phone calls this week suggesting that police would be unable to do their jobs if her organization and others continued with its demand that the city ban knee to neck holds.
“I’m not asking any police officer not to do their job,” Harris, pastor at Duryee Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, told dozens of protesters.
“I’m asking that you do your job effectively. I’m asking that you do your job without harming people unnecessarily – and without knee holds.”
With reforms in sight, revamped community policing eyed in Schenectady
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1of8Buy PhotoJamaica Miles, with the group All Of Us, speaks about the Reform and Reinvention Collaboration Report and about the process to get to the final report during a press conference on the step of city hall on Monday, March 8, 2021, in Schenectady, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
2of8Buy PhotoSchenectady Police Chief Eric Clifford speaks at a press conference held to discuss a partnership to develop a virtual reality educational tool to train officers and other first responders in tactics aimed at de-escalating situations that may be encountered in the real world on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Schenectady, N.Y. Catapult Games is designing the virtual reality training tool. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
Hearing speakers say Schenectady police reform plan falls short | The Daily Gazette
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By Brian Lee |
All of Us leader Mikayla Foster speaks on the steps of City Hall during a press conference as they request changes to be made in city hall meetings for the voices to be heard during public hearings at Schenectady City Hall Monday
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SCHENECTADY The city’s draft police reform plan fails to go far enough to reforming the police, the majority of more than a dozen people who spoke at a City Council public hearing on the plan said Monday night.
Some speakers were members of All of Us, a community group that continues to push for consideration of 13 demands for reform it made last summer, in the middle of last summer’s nationwide Black Lives Matter movement against police-involved deaths of unarmed Black people and police brutality. Other speakers were members of the local clergy.