The state of New York on Friday adopted a series of laws designed to put an end to police brutality against the African American community, a sign of the
against the African American community, a sign of the impact that nationwide protests over the George Floyd are having.
Among the measures is a law forbidding chokeholds being used by law enforcement officers that was named in memory of Eric Garner, a black man suffocated byThe state also repealed legislation that designated as"confidential" any document pertaining to professional evaluations of police officers, including records of disciplinary proceedings.
After the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers on May 25, the city police department revealed that Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed him by kneeling on his neck, had been the subject of 18 abuse complaints in his 20 years on the job. Cuomo also announced on Friday he would be signing an executive order obliging the state's almost 500 police departments to"develop a plan that reinvents and modernizes police strategies and programs in their community.
Any of the departments that have not adopted their new plan by April 2021 will lose their state funding, Cuomo said at a press conference, flanked by Democratic leaders of the state assembly and civil rights activist Al Sharpton.
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