Monday, January 11, 2021 – Families of loved ones killed by the NYPD, advocates, and legal experts will testify at the New York City Council Oversight Hearing of the Committee on Public Safety. In responding to Governor Cuomo’s executive order, requiring municipalities to put forward police “reform and reinvention” plans, the NYPD has led the City’s process, with virtual events criticized as serving as NYPD propaganda sessions to create a false illusion of community input.
Participants at the hearing will call for the firing of NYPD officers who have killed, brutalized and enacted other violence on New Yorkers, including the officers who killed Delrawn Small (Officer Wayne Isaacs), Kawaski Trawick (Officers Brendan Thompson and Herbert Davis), Antonio Williams (incl Officers McMahon, Valentino, Wichers and Det. Beddows), and those who have still not been fired for their roles in the killing of Eric Garner (incl. Officer Justin Damico and Lt. Christopher Bannon). They also called for removal of police from various roles, including schools, youth outreach and mental health response; reductions in the budget, scope, size, and power of the NYPD in order to prevent and decrease future police violence and killings; and an end to harmful NYPD policies and practices as part of New York City’s plan to reform policing.
Click below to read full written testimony submitted by CPR members:
Iris Baez, Mother Of Anthony Baez
Hawa Bah, Mother Of Mohamed Bah
Victor Dempsey, Brother Of Delrawn Small
Samy Feliz, Brother Of Allan Feliz
Communities United for Police Reform
Keith Fuller, Make the Road Youth Power Project
Kadiata Kaba, Make the Road Youth Power Project
Charlotte Pope, Girls For Gender Equity
NYC Anti Violence Project
Michael Sisitzky, NYCLU
Melissa Moore, Drug Police Alliance
Justine Olderman, Bronx Defenders
Corey Stoughton, Legal Aid Society