In this May 29, 2020 photo taken from video New York police officer Vincent D'Andraia, right, pushes protester Dounya Zayer during a protest in the Brooklyn borough of New York. D'Andraia is facing criminal charges after he was caught on video violently shoving Zayer to the ground during the protest over the death of George Floyd. Brooklyn prosecutors charged Officer Vincent D'Andraia on Tuesday with assault and other counts in the May 29 confrontation.
Many of those bills were first proposed years ago, but got new momentum after huge protests nationwide condemned police brutality.The passage came as criminal charges were brought Tuesday against an NYPD officer over his rough treatment of a protester during demonstrations following the death of Floyd, who pleaded he couldn’t breathe as a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee on his neck May 25.
Momentum for ending the secrecy law reached a crescendo in recent days as marchers filled streets in Brooklyn, Manhattan and elsewhere to rally against police abuses — amplifying the calls of reform advocates who spent years pushing for change in the wake of other high-profile police killings, including that of Eric Garner in 2014.
State lawmakers Tuesday were also expected to pass bills providing all state troopers with body cameras and ensuring that officers get proper medical and mental health attention for people under arrest or in custody. “I was protesting for a reason,” Zayer said in a video tweeted from her hospital bed. The officer, she added, “should have had the self restraint to not hurt the people he’s supposed to be protecting.”
icecube Listen ! Like Hon. Farrakhan says LISTEN. I don't care how distasteful it sound what I'm about to say. GEORGR FLOYD DIED over a $20.00. Where is the $20.00? The Store Clerk spend it then he called the POLICE. All this over a $20.00 STORE CLERK THIEF!
And there has to be better psychological evaluations of applicants. Union contracts must be amended.
Defund over paid Governor Cuomo and his staff. State employees raises frozen then told be glad you have a job. Cut Cuomo's pay; he should be glad he has a job.
It's not George Floyd which ignited world wide demonstration. Root cause is 500 years of police brutality on Afrikan people who were killed,raped &enslaved by west. Worst is even in 2020 police offrs are neither prosecuted nor investigated for killing blacks on mere suspicion
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New York and California should bow to left wing mob violence. That’s the kind of Bambi pandies they are.
Why should law enforcement officers' records be secret in the first place? Like they're a better class than the rest of us.
First of all, why have they been secret in the first place?!
Stop Police brutality - its systemic in America
Sure, why not he's not going to be governor long, let someone else deal with it
Yes, in order to be trusted, the new police force HAVE TO END THEIR 'SECRECY CODE'. EVERYTHING ABOUT POLICE HAVE TO BE IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS, LIKE THEY ARE IN CAMERA ALL THE TIMES OR IN A DISPLAY CABINET.
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Good luck getting police. Who would want to be one?
What about all the money under the table the corrupt politicians get? When can we get that info?
The police are the problem. PoliceAreTheProblem
'makes sense. it helps other public agencies avoid hiring cops who lost their previous job due to excessive use of force.
Should have been public the whole time. If you are paid by the public, your records should be public.
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DefundPolice
Imagine having an issue with this
Cities looking into this to get rid of police unions and police pensions this is the real reason. They see an opening, gonna try. All about money people
Hard to tell if Cuomo will follow through. So far, I haven't been impressed.
Whoa! This is huge for New York.
Of course he will because he is a liberal who will do anything to kiss the asses of those who line his pockets
Liberalism
Baffling that it was private in the first place.
Now do the politicians.
So long as law enforcement is funded by public tax dollars, misconduct of officers should he public record. Don’t want a public record of misconduct? Don’t commit misconduct. The secrecy helps no-one. It only undermines accountability, addressing trauma, and justice.
This what we should be doing to ReformThePolice !
Radical Democrats
Now do the no bail, catch and release thing
The GOP ReformBill by Senator Scott is a NON STARTER DefundThePolice
A psychop who wants to kill legally must join the police force or military.
Good. I hope more bad cops resign over this.
Freddie Gray Sandra Bland Kaleif Browder Micheal Brown Eric garner Tamir rice Trayvon Martin Philando Castile These murders happened under Obama’s Administration without a single person ever being convicted so how is this Trump’s fault