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Patrick Thomas, an Altamont resident and village police officer, is also a member of Altamont’s Police Reform Committee. The committee is due to have a meeting on Thursday, Feb. 18.
ALTAMONT Many of the reform requirements Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered of municipal law-enforcement agencies have not been an issue for the small Altamont Police Department, said its chief, Todd Pucci, because a number the reforms are meant to address the racial disparities between the police and communities they serve, “and we really don’t have that [issue] in our village.”
In May of last year, George Floyd, a Black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on a restrained Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes. The death sparked nationwide protests, including many in New York State, and led Cuomo in June to issue an executive order requiring police departments across the state to reform and reinvent themselves.
Published Jan 23, 2021
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