With the state Senate set to hold a hearing Monday on New Yorkâs ethics oversight and enforcement system, we can describe it with one word: corrupt.
New Yorkers have witnessed in recent years a total breakdown of accountability at the highest levels of government, and a corruption of the very mechanisms meant to enforce ethics rules. The two most prominent watchdogs â the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and the Office of the Inspector General â are so obviously compromised they have become part of the problem.
And yes, we have said this over and over and over again. We are frustrated and sick of it, as we suspect most New Yorkers are. And every good government advocate. And every honest, idealistic legislator and public servant. JCOPE is sham and an embarrassment. The Inspector Generalâs office is a farce.
Black lawmakers sue NYPD for beating, pepper-spraying them during BLM protest
The suit calls for police tactics like “kettling” to be made illegal.
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Two Black New York legislators say they were beaten with bicycles and pepper-sprayed by cops during a Black Lives Matter protest in Brooklyn last summer. Now, the lawmakers State Sen. Zellnor Myrie and Assemblywoman Diana Richardson have filed a federal lawsuit against the city.
The suit from Myrie and Richardson alleges that Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea and six other officers violated their right to free speech, assaulted them and illegally detained Myrie.
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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.