In a federal complaint Monday, a New York state senator and assemblywoman describe being assaulted and pepper-sprayed by police during a Black Lives Matter protest last summer in Brooklyn.
NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, the highest-ranking black elected official in New York, said the civil rights protests and demonstrations occurring across the country since George Floyd’s death are the result of a nation that has failed to address the historical context of slavery to this day. (Courthouse News photo / Josh Russell)
(CN) Two New York City lawmakers sued police on Monday, saying officers wielded bicycles as a weapon against them, with pepper spray to boot, during a Black Lives Matter protest last year in Brooklyn.
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