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18 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New York City’s Dept. of Investigation dropped an 111-page report on the NYPD’s policing tactics during BLM protests this summer. It is scathing.

Here are some key excerpts:
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, who faced widespread criticism during the protests, says he agrees with the report:

“It makes very clear we’ve gotta do something different and we’ve gotta do something better … Our police department has to do better."
A group of public defenders, civil rights attorneys, and experts on police misconduct want to take it one step further than "doing better."

They penned an op-ed in which they call the NYPD "unreformable" and propose massive cuts to police funding.
nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
When it comes to police departments who have shown a history of escalating and fueling violence, do you think they are reformable?

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