At @NationalAction where Eric Garners daughter and son and Al Sharpton spoke on @NYPD’s decision to fire #danielpantaleo - Emerald Snipes Garner thanks Commissioner O’Neil, they’re now calling for the state to outlaw chokeholds.
“For Commissioner O’Neill, I thank you for doing the right thing. I truly sincerely thank you,” says Emerald Snipes Garner, Eric Garner’s daughter. “You finally made a decision that should have been made five years ago.”
On PBA statement Sharpton says, ”Is he calling the administrative judge a cop hater? Is he calling commissioner O’Neill a cop hater?... I hear the commissioner say he served over 3 decades... now he’s a police hater because he said I’m following the guidelines?”
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Outside PS 17 in Williamsburg, kids chant, “we support asylum seekers but not on school grounds.”
There’s a lot of parents talking about how afraid they are, some have pulled their kids out of school. There are a few moms from the local Communtiy Education Council who disagree with the protest but they get heckled by the crowd.
Marzena Wolert (right) is walking by protest and says she’s “disgusted” “they’re fleeing war and they don’t have a home and you’re not gonna have your gym?” She’s confronted by another woman leaving the protest as she walks by.
Attorney @GloriaAllred with Sherry Vill, who says NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, "suddenly grabbed her face and kissed her in front of her home," in 2017.
Allred says after the press conference they plan to contact @TishJames office with the allegations. Members of her family who saw the kiss, Allred who found it, "very surprising" and "not appropriate."
Vill says Cuomo came to her town of Greece, New York when her home flooded in 2017. Cuomo asked to tour her flood-damaged home she shares with husband and kids. Cuomo forcibly kissed her on the cheek several times, and said "you are beautiful."
Do you dispute anything in the @hrw report that found NYPD violated international human rights law on June 4 when they trapped protesters and violently attacked them with batons and pepper spray, @BrianLehrer asks @NYCMayor who predictably replies, "I have not not read it yet...
"We've got to get the objective facts and that why a full investigation has to be done," @NYCMayor continues..@BrianLehrer pushes back, "it's October have you figured out whether the NYPD misbehaved or not..."
"It's not my personal review," @NYCMayor says saying its up to the law department and the Department of Investigation. "So I'm waiting for their conclusions."
.@NYGovCuomo calls this the “largest cluster” is that we’ve seen before speaking about Rockland, Orange Counties and Brooklyn.
Gov Cuomo says the state must “stamp out all these embers” immediately,” he says local governments are the first line of defense. “Attack these clusters, that’s what it is, testing and compliance.”
“A cluster today is community spread tomorrow,” says Cuomo, says he’ll be meeting with Orthodox religious Jewish leaders, saying the its a fact that there’s overlap with the top zip codes for COVID infections and orthodox Jewish community.
“We need solutions for this new time,” @NYCMayor says outside the new COVID testing laboratory at the Alexandria Center for Life Science, where city aims to process 20,000 tests a day.
“Public health is economic health,” @NYCMayor says, he says he will outline the pillars of the city’s recovery today.
City is launching a rapid testing design competition, Mayor says.
Riding around Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s old haunts today. Someone left sunflowers outside her childhood home in midwood.
Diana and William Brenneisen have lived here for nearly 40 years, they learned RBG grew up here shortly after that. “She did so much for us, Diana says, “she’s really going to be missed.”
There’s a pop up memorial outside James Madison High school RGB attended. Two public school teachers were there.