A new bill introduced in the New York City Council seeks to limit the deployment of the NYPD's Strategic Response Group (SRG) to protests and other First Amendment-protected activities. The bill, supported by police reformers and civil liberties advocates, would also prohibit the use of tear gas, pepper spray, sound cannons, and kettling tactics by the SRG. They argue that the SRG, a militarized unit with access to military-style crowd control tactics, has a history of violating protesters' rights.
Members of the New York Police Department's Strategic Response Group stage outside the main gate at Columbia University, in New York, early Friday, April 26, 2024, as demonstrators continue protesting the Israel-Hamas war. ‘ Publisher and my father, Wilbert “Bill” Tatum, before me.
New York Civil Liberties Union policy assistant director Michael Sisitzky and senior organizer Isabelle Leyva, who Ossé credited for partnership on the bill, told thethat the legislation is just one avenue police reformers are pursuing to dismantle the unit. “But… units get disbanded in name all the time and then they just pop up and are called something else. Part of what this legislation to accomplish is to prevent that from happening by actually targeting the tactics of the SRG and the things that they’re known to do.”
“These are some of the most common abuses from the SRG,” said Sisitzky. “It’s great to make sure the SRG is not deployed at protests. We also need to make sure that there are prohibitions against the deployment of the SRG tactics at protests, regardless of which NYPD officer or unit is responding. And that’s what’s covered in legislation — making sure that we are not letting those abuses carry forward.
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