One of the goals of Millions March NYC has already been met: the police commissioner resigned. Now it’s time to take their other demands seriouslyMy professor friend AJ and I led a walking tour of college students earlier this week about protest and policing in modern York City. Between our pause at One Police Plaza,where “broken windows” policing was unleashed on our city, and the site of Eric Garner’s death on Staten Island, or we stopped at the newest occupation in town at City corridor Park.
Mayor Bill de Blasio had just announced police commissioner Bill Bratton’s resignation as we walked through the park,quickly achieving one of the occupying group’s three ambitious goals when they appeared on Monday. The other two call for defunding the NYPD and using some of that money for reparations for survivors of “police terrorism”.
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Source: theguardian.com