The landmark lawsuit takes particular aim at the NYPD's handling of protests in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others in the past year with hopes of reform among the police ranks.
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We can't even protest without having to worry about losing our lives
Restaurants and bars are still limited in the option of hosting patrons inside thus outside has become the new social playground. Even in this era of inconvenience, the law is making it clear that Black and Brown folks are still the hunted.
Even though relations between the law and the community continue to be tense, a squad from The Big Apple has figured out how to drop the ball big time. A set of badges were caught on tape doing the most.
While people don't want to abolish the police force entirely, we would like to see resources go to other programs that could help citizens with real world problems such as social workers as opposed to relying on police officers respond to domestic problems they're not equipped to handle with a gun and handcuffs. That's the basis for the calls of defunding the police.
In the end, it's things like this that contribute to people having a problem with trusting police in any capacity. Don't get us started on the whole racial aspect of it. There's a whole movement dedicated to that going on outside right now. Get familiar.
While there is much more work to be done to put an end to police brutality we are already winning small victories. Some of the badges in the Big Apple can no longer go undercover.
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Vincent D'Andraia is expected to be arraigned today in Brooklyn Criminal Court where he'll probably get a heroes welcome from fellow NYPD officers. Seems like that's becoming a new thing lately.
No word on who gave the order to murder more innocent people but the NYPD have said they're aware of the transmission and are looking into it. In other words, oh well.
It's literally night and day and a tale of two cities when it comes to how the NYPD is enforcing social distancing rules as NYC still battles the spread of COVID-19.
The NYPD has a bit of explaining to do. One of their veterans has been caught fabricating very important details that have landed people in prison.
