Make PIX11 your preferred news source on Google: Here\u2019s how <\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIndividuals who impede access to a place of worship or interfere with religious services or otherwise commit crimes against individuals coming and going from a place of worship are subject to arrest.\u201d Said Michael Gerber\u00a0NYPD Deputy Commissioner.<\/p>\n
\u201cA buffer zone outside of worship will likewise very likely be unconstitutional, just like a buffer zone outside an abortion clinic is unconstitutional.\u201d\u00a0 Eugene Volokh, a senior fellow at Stanford University who has taught constitutional law for more than three decades, says people have a First Amendment right to protest outside places of worship or schools, so long as they do not block entrances or commit crimes.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople do not have a right to worship free of hostile speech on the sidewalk outside of worship, that\u2019s true if it\u2019s antisemitic, racist, if its anti-musli.m\u201d<\/p>\n
The NYPD supports the revised bills.<\/p>\n
The council would need to approve the bills before they would be sent to Mayor Mamdani.<\/p>\n
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