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Riding through the streets and mostly obeying traffic signals, hundreds of street safety and immigrants rights advocates ...
The settlement also requires the NYPD to appoint a senior executive to authorize escalation of police response to protests and oversee training and policy relating to First Amendment activities.
NEW YORK-- The NYPD announced a landmark agreement Tuesday with the state attorney general's office to reform how the department polices protests. The settlement stems from several lawsuits over ...
At a City Council Public Safety Committee meeting on March 20, Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters Michael Gerber said that according to current NYPD policy, “In most protests in the city ...
Of the cases the agency did review fully, it found that at least 146 members of service who responded to the protests violated department rules. Officers broke NYPD policy in about 40% of the ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- An agreement was announced Tuesday between the New York Attorney General, the NYPD and civil liberties advocates to reform how protests are policed. Under the deal, police will ...
The NYPD said over 400 officers were hurt and scores of police vehicles damaged during the protests. Thousands of demonstrators also said they were hurt. The federal lawsuit was filed in October 2020.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, in a letter to the NYPD, authorized the department to clear an encampment of protesters from its campus, saying the group had violated school policy ...
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the NYPD has monitored upwards of 4,000 protests, according to the NYPD’s Chief of Patrol John Chell, who shared some of the department’s strategy for ...