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NYPD to reform protest policies, use of force tactics in landmark settlement with George Floyd protestors, AG, Legal Aid, NYCLU​


The NYPD will reform how it polices protests in New York City -- including by stopping kettling and other use of force tactics -- in a landmark settlement filed in Manhattan Tuesday resolving several protest cases brought after the 2020 George Floyd demonstrations. The agreement restores cases against the NYPD brought by the state attorney general, the Legal Aid Society, the New York City Liberties Union and lawsuit brought by protesters roughed up during the 2020 demonstrations. “The right to peacefully assemble and protest is sacrosanct and foundational to our democracy. Too often peaceful protesters have been met with force that has harmed innocent New Yorkers simply trying to exercise their rights,” state Attorney General Letitia James said. New Yorkers took to the streets in the hundreds of thousands following Floyd’s killing by now-convicted white former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020. The Black Minnesota man’s killing prompted millions nationwide to protest police brutality and racism in the criminal legal system for months.

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NYPD banned from excessive force under George Floyd protest agreement
The agreement struck Tuesday bans the NYPD from kettling protesters, intimidating crowds with helicopters and using other excessive force tactics that thousands of New Yorkers experienced firsthand during the Black Lives Matter protests. NYPD officers will only break up protests as a last resort and must give orders to disperse three times before arrests, the agreement states.
 

UNINVITED AND UNACCOUNTABLE: HOW CBP POLICED GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS​


AT THE OUTSET of the coronavirus pandemic, Customs and Border Protection encouraged officers to consider more lethal force when making arrests to protect themselves against the highly contagious virus, according to newly uncovered agency documents. “Frequently, the necessity to use force, especially less-lethal force, requires an officer or agent to be in direct proximity and in personal contact with individual(s),” reads an April 2020 CBP memo. “If an officer or agent reasonably believes a subject may be infected with COVID-19, the threat of transmitting the virus to resist or evade arrest should be considered when establishing the immanency of a threat and the resulting determination of objectively reasonable force.” The memo listed “electronic control weapons” (stun guns like Tasers) and “compressed air and munition launchers” (guns with rubber bullets) as tools that CBP officers could use from a safe distance. In the coming months, CBP officers would join the sprawling law enforcement response to the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 — even policing George Floyd’s funeral. The agency made headlines that summer for deploying a surveillance drone in Minneapolis and when unidentifable Border Patrol officers whisked away a protester in Portland, Oregon. But new documents, obtained by legal advocates through Freedom of Information Act litigation, reveal the extent of CBP’s involvement, conducting arrests and barraging protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets — sometimes without the knowledge of other agencies, city or state leaders, or even CBP officials themselves.

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Uninvited and Unaccountable: How CBP Policed George Floyd Protests
The memo listed “electronic control weapons” (stun guns like Tasers) and “compressed air and munition launchers” (guns with rubber bullets) as tools that CBP officers could use from a safe distance. The agency’s redactions of the document set, which consists of thousands of pages, conceal the number of officers deployed throughout the summer and other details about the operation.
 
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