"The first breath that this baby had on this earth was one born out of violence."
A mom will get $750k after being shackled during labor. Yet:
-Taxpayers paid for this abuse. Not NYPD.
-It's not uncommon.
-NYPD patrol guide *still allows cops to do it.cnn.com/2021/04/21/us/…
A mom will get $750k after being shackled during labor. Yet:
-Taxpayers paid for this abuse. Not NYPD.
-It's not uncommon.
-NYPD patrol guide *still allows cops to do it.cnn.com/2021/04/21/us/…
The trauma of this brutality is incalculable: "That was not my birth plan. I felt like a failure to my unborn bc that wasn't something that was planned for neither of us. I just didn't feel like myself anymore after that. I feel like my memory got taken away & still I'm in pain."
Meanwhile, for the NYPD and NYC Administration, it's just another settlement.
"NYPD declined to comment on the settlement. The New York City Law Department did not respond to requests for comment."
For the officers responsible: they're likely still on force. No discipline.
"NYPD declined to comment on the settlement. The New York City Law Department did not respond to requests for comment."
For the officers responsible: they're likely still on force. No discipline.
Taxpayers pay $11 billion per year for the NYPD to inflict mass violence. Spend hundreds of millions to settle their lawsuits. Then turn around, fearmonger & lie to us that any alternative to policing will only lead us to mass violence. We need to talk.
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