New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board exposed as accomplice of NYPD
More than nine months after New York City protests in the immediate aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota met with a brutal police response, including scores of injuries and mass arrests, ProPublica reports that the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) has released no reports from investigations into the hundreds of complaints lodged over police abuse in connection with those demonstrations and later ones in the course of the year.
The investigative journalism project begins its report on the lack of response this week by citing the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) rampage against peaceful protesters in the Bronx on June 4, reported at that time by the WSWS.
Silence From City Review Board Despite 750 Abuse Complaints Against NY Police nationalmemo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalmemo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Email address:
Thanks for signing up. If you like our stories, mind sharing this with a friend?
https://www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story?source=www.propublica.org&placement=share®ion=nationalCopy link
For more ways to keep up, be sure to check out the rest of our newsletters.See All
Fact-based, independent journalism is needed now more than ever.Donate
Officers soon waded into the crowd, pepper-spraying, kicking, punching and swinging their batons. “People were being stampeded, they would try to get up and they’d get hit again,” recalled Conrad Blackburn, a criminal defense lawyer who was there as a legal observer. “People were bleeding from their heads, with cuts all over their bodies. People couldn’t breathe. They couldn’t see.”
Over 700 Complaints About NYPD Officers Abusing Protesters, Then Silence thecity.nyc - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thecity.nyc Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Former Employees Of Police Watchdog Agency Say They Were Fired For Flagging Problems With Investigations
arrow Police officers in Times Square in 2019 Gabriel Pinheiro / Shutterstock
Four former employees of the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) are suing the agency and the City of New York, claiming they were dismissed from their jobs for flagging concerns with investigations and with what they saw as an inability among senior leadership to assert independence from the NYPD.
The former employees, who have more than 50 years of experience working at the CCRB among them, claim their First Amendment rights were violated when their jobs were terminated in November at a time when the public demanded even more scrutiny of police actions.