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Hearing speakers say Schenectady police reform plan falls short | The Daily Gazette
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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.
Hearing speakers say Schenectady police reform plan falls short | The Daily Gazette
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By Brian Lee |
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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.