The fallout from the NYPD no-showing Wednesday’s City Council hearing regarding the department’s controversial Strategic Response Group (SRG) continued to unravel Sunday.
The hearing focused on the role the unit played during the George Floyd protests and saw testimony that called for the unit to be disbanded, citing aggressive and violent responses during the 2020 demonstrations. However, that testimony remained one-sided since NYPD reps did not show up to tell their side of the story, which made lawmakers fume with anger and even threatened to pull funding.
“Normally, my colleagues and I work with advocates and directly impacted communities to devise a solid series of specific, detailed questions, and the NYPD offers evasive half-answers. If that’s what we thought would happen Wednesday morning, it turns out we were too optimistic by half. Instead, the NYPD didn’t show up at all,” Cabán wrote. “The topic of the hearing was supposed to be the department’s so-called “Strategic Response Group” .
“We are involved in mediation in that case, and we signed a confidentiality agreement. So, we would not be able to speak about the facts of that case. We let the City Council know that well in advance. That hearing was rescheduled twice, they went forward with it—which is absolutely their right to do so. We let them know that we would not be able to be present for that. But we did submit written testimony,” Commissioner Sewell said.
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