NYPD To Reassign 600 ‘Anti-Crime’ Plainclothes Officers Amid Protests
The reform comes after over nearly three weeks of protests nationwide, including in New York, calling for an end to systemic racism and police brutality following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd, a Black man, was killed by a white officer, Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for several minutes, even as Floyd pleaded, “I can’t breathe.”
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