JTN: Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday signed new police reform legislation into law, in a move that makes officers more accountable and criminalizes chokeholds and other controversial restraints.
The governor, who will sign a total of 10 bills, said it has been 40 to 50 years in the making, but was only realized after the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
“Police reform is long overdue, and Mr. Floyd’s murder is just the most recent murder. This is not just about Mr. Floyd’s murder. It’s about being here many, many times before,” Cuomo said during his daily briefing. “It is about a long list that has been made all across this country that almost all makes the same point: injustice against minorities in America by the criminal justice system.”
A key measure signed on Friday involves removing a veil of secrecy that a 1976 law provided police personnel and disciplinary records. Another piece of legislation mandates that a police officer who injures or kills somebody through the use of “a chokehold or similar restraint” can be charged with a class C felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Another bill will designate the attorney general as an independent prosecutor for matters relating to the deaths of unarmed civilians caused by law enforcement. more
Do these idiots even know the difference between a chokehold and a neck restraint?
Must give the cops on the street a real warm fuzzy feeling to hear this, especially since it’s so long in the making.
Or maybe some other kind of feeling.
It should still be legal, however, to put a Democrat Governor or Mayor in a choke-hold!
H?ow about limitations on an idiotic groveler/govenor?
And the decades of Cuomo and Dim hold on NY couldn’t do this before?
Says the man that has never had to fight for his life.
No neck holds allowed? No problem: Restrain by pinning to the ground with a 45ACP thru the forehead.
I’d like to choke hold that son of a bitch and have him put on a faulty ventilator.
^ Can I help hold him down for you?
“….it has been 40 to 50 years in the making…….”
Andrew, you let the cat out of the bag with this one. “In the works for 40 years” tells you how long this countries cancer has been metastasizing. With what all these assholes have been doing for the last 3.5 years since Trump was elected, this Floyd thing was just what they needed to push the country into a civil war and then (their) Police State. Chuck Manson is singing Helter Skelter in Hell.
Teen aged ANTIFA types have this weakling’s number. Pathetic.
Hey Rudy, you’ve got another mess to clean in a couple more years.
Item #1: Replace exhausted coroners.
The pic of Cuomo on the front page looks just like the green inflatable man on the post directly below. Well-played BFH.
So, NY police lives don’t matter.
They have just been classified as Non-essential and Expendable.
Shame on Cuomo.
Nothing about union reform? The article states that unions are vehemently opposed but nothing about whether their role is addressed in the new laws.
AH HAH!
GatewayPundit: Latest Poll: Democrats Want to Replace Senile Man in Basement with a Guy Who Killed 5,800 People in Nursing Homes”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/democrats-want-replace-senile-man-basement-guy-killed-5800-people-nursing-homes/
& MUST BE A REWARDING CAREER TO BE A NYC COP!
THE PAY MUST BE REAL GOOD…
Knee-jerk legislation is always bad.