Civil rights activists called for more transparency and accountability from the NYPD on Monday, following a meeting with top brass \u2013 including Commissioner Jessica Tisch. <\/p>\n
The Rev. Kevin McCall, a community activist, said the hour-long meeting focused on excessive force. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are too many times and times again of – we\u2019ve been down the road before – of police just getting away with using excessive force,\u201d said McCall. <\/p>\n
The group of activists gathered outside of NYPD headquarters after their face-to-face session with Tisch. <\/p>\n
The meeting came about one week after video of a violent arrest showed two officers punching and kicking Timothy Brown inside of a liquor store in Boerum Hill. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe told [Tisch] that we want to go to the city council to introduce legislation, but she has committed to doing it within her own policy,\u201d said McCall. <\/p>\n
\u201cI understand the community interest in it because it is an upsetting video,\u201d said Tisch during a news conference last week. <\/p>\n
An NYPD spokesperson told News 12 on Monday that the incident was already under a 90-day review, which is focusing on policy, compliance, equipment and training. <\/p>\n
NYPD officials also confirmed that they already took steps before the scheduled meeting, which included disbanding the entire narcotics module associated with the incident. <\/p>\n
A spokesperson said both officers and a sergeant are on modified duty, and the department transferred six additional detectives in the module, a lieutenant and captain overseeing Brooklyn North Narcotics. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe need them to be suspended,\u201d said McCall. \u201cWe need them to be arrested! That\u2019s what real justice looks like.\u201d <\/p>\n
Activists said they have a list of other demands, including condolences to the family of Eric Duprey, who was killed in the Bronx when former sergeant Erik Duran threw a cooler at him. <\/p>\n
Duran was convicted and just released on bail. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe city of New York, including Mayor [Zohran] Mamdani, who has ignored the Duprey family; the city of New York and the NYPD owe [the Duprey] family an apology,\u201d said Hawk Newsome, with Black Lives Matter Greater New York [BLMGNY]. <\/p>\n
Newsome added that BLMGNY was supposed to have their own meeting with Tisch on Monday – which would\u2019ve been their first-ever sit-down with the NYPD commissioner – but it was cancelled at the last minute. <\/p>\n
An NYPD spokesperson told News 12 that Tisch only had one meeting scheduled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Civil rights activists called for more transparency and accountability from the NYPD on Monday, following a meeting with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-203962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}