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New Orleans City Council voted unanimously Thursday to expand its curfew and truancy laws to include 17-year-olds.
The vote was taken up as part of the council’s consent agenda, held for “routine or non-controversial matters.” But the expansion, introduced by Councilmembers Jay Banks and Cyndi Nguyen, has sparked controversy.
Council members listened to several statements opposing the expansion. Commenters cited data from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which reported that during the summer of 2019, when a youth curfew was reinstated, nearly 85 percent of all children stopped for curfew violations were Black.
A coalition called the Youth Justice Advocates, made up of several organizations including Step Up NOLA and the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, released a statement following the vote.
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For the second time in eight months, a bystander video capturing a Baton Rouge police officer restraining a Black teenager is sparking outrage and prompting calls for reform. The video, posted to social media on Sunday, shows the officer wrapping his arm around the neck of the boy as he pinned him to the ground.
Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome has pledged a “thorough” investigation and advocacy groups say the incident reinforces longstanding concerns over the department’s use of force on young people.
“We’re going to conduct an investigation into the incident and report our findings at the appropriate time,” Chief Murphy Paul of the Baton Rouge Police Department said during a Monday afternoon press conference. “Until then, we’re asking the community to respect the process that is in place right now so that we can conclude that investigation and present all of the facts that have been known to us.”