The first report of the Adams administration from the federal court-appointed Rikers monitor is out, and it does not sound like things are better. Read along with me. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… For one thing, the monitor reports, staff absences remain atrocious:

It seems like @adrienneeadams had a real fire-and-brimstone opening to this @NYCCouncil Public Safety Committee meeting, ripping the City's police review, which many are calling a whitewash, but the stream is glitching so hard we only got pieces of it: council.nyc.gov/livestream/#vi… “Here we are, 7 months after the Governor’s executive order, and I have nothing to review this morning, nothing to give you feedback on today, nothing to speak of to enlighten or inform of any progress at all," @adrienneeadams says.

Couple hundred people out in Washington Square now for this event, as a considerably greater number of police encircle the park in helicopters, vans, unmarked cars, and uparmored bicycle suits.

https://twitter.com/everybodyoutnyc/status/1323382891263479808

That group is on the move now, in the street west on 8th, chanting “No more presidents,” cars and buses honking support, as bike cops in turtle gear keep pace.

A judge just ruled that a judicial inquiry sought by Eric Garner's family and @changethenypd, alleging the NYPD neglected to properly investigate police involved in Garner's death, can proceed, clearing the way for Bill de Blasio & former commissioner James O'Neill to be deposed. The petition for the inquiry relied on an obscure provision of the NYC Charter, Section 1109, which provides for any five citizens to petition a Supreme Court judge to conduct a summary inquiry into government officials' violation or neglect of duty.

Maybe like 1000 people here outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to protest the grand jury’s failure to indict anyone for the death of Breonna Taylor. “Forget ‘turn the other cheek,’ we’re way past that, it’s ‘eye for an eye’ now,” says the man on the megaphone. The Barclays Center jumbotron is meanwhile making its best case for considered diplomacy.

Maybe 50 or 70 ppl marching south on Broadway now through lower Manhattan with considerably more police trailing. Haven’t gone more than three or four blocks when cops rush in and make several rough arrests. At Greenwich and Cortland, more hard arrests, kids bleeding from the face from police tackles. NYPD looks determined to crush this one immediately.

Reading her decision aloud now, Judge Katherine Polk Failla has just denied the NYC police unions' motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the NYPD and @CCRB_NYC from releasing disciplinary accusations that have not been substantiated. Given recent publications, presumably by @propublica and @NYCLU, the judge says that "“Any injunctive relief that I would order could not put that particular horse back in the barn."

Here we go: @propublica just published a database of every NYPD officer whose had a complaint substantiated against them by the @CCRB_NYC: propublica.org/article/nypd-c… Worth noting that this database is not as comprehensive as the one @NYCLU intended to publish before a federal judge blocked them. To my understanding (and I hope @propublica will correct me if I'm wrong) it lists only cops with at least one *substantiated* @CCRB_NYC complaint.

In a letter filed today, the @NYCLU informs Judge Katherine Polk Failla that her order blocking the organization from publishing NYPD disciplinary records violates both the rules of civil procedure and the First Amendment: The letter states that the @NYCLU had intended at noon yesterday to publish a searchable database of every allegation against every NYPD officer, active and retired, which it had received through a Freedom of Information Law request to the @CCRB_NYC.

Here's an account of yesterday's federal hearing where a judge blocked city agencies from releasing police disciplinary records that were formerly kept secret under CRL 50-a: gothamist.com/news/federal-j… Lots of interesting things here: For one, the judge is allowing police unions discovery to investigate why the @CCRB_NYC responded to @NYCLU's Freedom of Information Request promptly, agreeing that the agency's prompt and helpful compliance with FOIL is suspicious.

Small contingent of counter-protesters, protected from the blue lives crew by a line of cops, chant “George Floyd!” “Oh yeah?” a guy outside the police line asks, “George Soros, why don’t you chant that?” Several hundred people at this pro-cop rally in Bay Ridge, comparable density to other protests of the last month, but the mask ratio is closer to half or two thirds.

The @NewYorkStateAG is holding a call right now to roll out her preliminary report on the policing of protests over the past month and a half. The report makes a number of recommendations. First among them: Create a commission to which the NYPD would be answerable, with members appointed by City Council, Public Advocate, Comptroller, and the Mayor.

And so the City Hall encampment survives, it appears, for another day. People go back to their regular camp life, lining up at the food tables for coffee, making rounds with brooms to clean the space, congratulating each other on their persistence. There’s been lots of debate about the utility of this occupation. Certainly by the metric of its original goal, pressuring city government to cut $1B from the NYPD budget, it failed.

"I know a lot of people are disappointed," @NYCSpeakerCoJo says now of the NYPD budget cuts, which he says he won't pretend add up to $1B, "I tried really hard." council.nyc.gov/livestream/#pr… Johnson says his "north star" in negotiating the police budget has been listening to African-American council members.

Meanwhile, Krylon proliferates More of that:

Second night of the City Hall occupation, much enlarged, maybe closer to 1000 people now, sprawling out onto the sidewalks at Chambers and Centre. Food table, water station, press desk, speakers circle, musician’s corner, Illuminator-style projections, grab-some-cardboard-make-a-sign, all the improvised infrastructure of an occupation mushroomed up overnight.

There are maybe 100 people now holding space on the corner of Centre and Chambers. They’re calling it an occupation of City Hall, which seems inflationary, but big things sometimes start small. So far a light police showing. Cops are telling people that the signs they have up are a violation of a park ordinance, but that otherwise they have no trouble with the protesters’ presence here.

At bail hearing for Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, a judge asks why, if the they were prepared to throw away their legal careers to molotov an NYPD vehicle, they won't do something reckless if released on bail with ankle bracelets. "It is aberrant." ww2.ca2.uscourts.gov/court.html If Mattis and Rahman had the judgment even on the wild night in question to direct their energies against an already-vandalized vehicle where no one was endangered, they certainly have the judgment to abide by bail conditions, Rahman's lawyer argues.

Testifying before the AG's hearings on police violence against protesters now, @NYPDShea devotes the bulk of his opening remark to outlining the violence and property destruction that police had to contend with. Police "brought order back to this city." ag.ny.gov/livestream "The protests were almost immediately violent," @NYPDShea testifies. "You could see there were outside agitators."

At a press conference now, @NYPDShea says the state and city legislation enacted in recent days won't make much difference to the NYPD, because the NYPD had already adopted most of those reforms on its own. pscp.tv/w/1dRJZZBvBZNJB The heart of @NYPDShea's announcement: He's disbanding precinct-level anti-crime units. "This is a seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD polices this city.... We can do it with brains, we can do it with guile, and move away from brute force."

Speaking live now, @NYPDShea "You turn on the TV and you hear 'reform, reform reform,' and nobody's mentioning that we've been reforming for six years."

https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/1271073247677702151?s=20

@NYPDShea on issues of police and race: "I learned a long time ago as a cop, when you go to a family dispute, and you hear multiple sides, alright, let's skip to the side in the middle, because that's probably where the truth lies."