{"id":7882,"date":"2021-01-14T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=150192"},"modified":"2021-01-14T19:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:46:49","slug":"praise-for-ags-new-lawsuit-against-nypd-over-blm-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/praise-for-ags-new-lawsuit-against-nypd-over-blm-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise for AG\u2019s New Lawsuit Against NYPD Over BLM Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; In response to today\u2019s announcement that New York Attorney General Letitia James will file a case against the NYPD for rampant police violence against New&nbsp; Yorkers, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=4tNED-2FM8iDZJQyQ53jATUQEUAo1j85HPpVS-2FFDE8gnY8rdhaqb1RMEr8s-2BvAGoZThEQME44ngDsVMhio8xY1Yx9aiD-2FlXFXmwEX-2FYSFtu0E-3DqLxX_8HgrYPAK-2BeaR-2FVipkabFyr64xvcd1RrMrVor17f-2Ffft8MGcFfyvxLlBadbWiTpxK8bc492sB1-2F0NJsMMZfhQjbKzjgd0hFXGOLYC1cFmtMuLQgy20XnwFlArq2TFixK5PGvLZ-2BWd2I5gCknAgLvTGn7LY5-2FBZtvaJxjtt7QzM8mGP3fD5v06UqmYN6gBDPDRJPJzCFg6iDwHYeZsym3Gq5gPakYZCuB39G5efWQenbXdVBtvUtw0KxIfBRMwt-2FaWUTyuukPyUyjYPJdY5RuPhbHb8aZEOhTCg-2BhWUHscsaathjCt3OdhK-2BhGOEaeTyTDsqhqXeCGm3Rd74NPQN-2FBwVnRs9pdJmP4oVDudMJcLYs-3D\">Vince Warren<\/a>&nbsp;issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This past summer, the NYPD responded to protests against persistent, systemic, murderous police violence against Black people with more violence: beatings, kettling, attacks with vehicles, and mass arrests. By contrast, last week we watched as white nationalists who staged an insurrection against the U.S. government were treated with kid gloves. The Attorney General\u2019s case against the NYPD could not come at a more important time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"block-inject-17\" class=\"block-inject block-inject-17\">\n<div id=\"block-block-86\" class=\"block block--block block--block-86\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the landmark stop-and-frisk lawsuit against the NYPD,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=4tNED-2FM8iDZJQyQ53jATUQEUAo1j85HPpVS-2FFDE8gnZnfvloj2Xs3xQ5g4LngA4MvCgVknW-2BDnt6y2-2BKQh8JYT2oLaDRdknT6GTCvrQY-2BKS-2FdAq2ZVD8G3-2FO29eQxLTBJcP1_8HgrYPAK-2BeaR-2FVipkabFyr64xvcd1RrMrVor17f-2Ffft8MGcFfyvxLlBadbWiTpxK8bc492sB1-2F0NJsMMZfhQjbKzjgd0hFXGOLYC1cFmtMuLQgy20XnwFlArq2TFixK5PGvLZ-2BWd2I5gCknAgLvTGn7LY5-2FBZtvaJxjtt7QzM8mGP3fD5v06UqmYN6gBDPDRJPJzCFg6iDwHYeZsym3Gq38LiMK5J2Yj2o9j15bYe5UbHyUdhjWJPFx7QdOIJHqqbZSh3soyD0-2BmfhXDfAmVlpvO7mRrxeI9e2ONjEtcPPIgVe3ORSwzcRk0NjdQ5xZjVRhj89JjQ-2B7D0Jew3qk5G205QJktsui1bFnrzca0ehQ-3D\">Floyd, et al. v. City of New York<\/a>, and continues to work with allies and co-counsel to hold the NYPD accountable for racially discriminatory policing.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/14\/praise-for-ags-new-lawsuit-against-nypd-over-blm-protests\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 In response to today\u2019s announcement that New York Attorney General Letitia James will file a case against the NYPD for rampant police violence against New\u00a0 Yorkers,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7883,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions\/7883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}