[NYPD\Police Brutality]
Officer Francisco Garcia used excessive force against 33-year-old Donni Wright…Wright had a taser pointed at him; was slapped, punched, dragged, before Officer Garcia kneeled on his hand; and ultimately handcuffed by another officer.
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[COVID-19\ Racial Disparities]
Williams: “The primary function of this task force cannot be to engage in a long, protracted process of deliberation and study, dwelling on how we got here. We know this disparity was created by a long history of systemic inequities and injustices.”
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[New York City’s Executive Budget FY21]
At the inception of New York City’s COVID-19 crisis, Mayor de Blasio instructed City agencies to spend was necessary to protect City residents. To date, the City has spent more than $700 million to fight COVID-19.
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[COVID-19\Mask Production\Brooklyn Navy Yard]
The mayor visited a production line run by Crye Precision, a design and manufacturing company based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that is producing gowns with the help of women’s wear brand Lafayette 148 and other sewing shops at the Yard.
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[COVID-19\ New Yorkers of Color]
Williams: “I have a number of questions concerning the safety and wellbeing of front-line workers and communities of more color and higher poverty rates.”
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[COVID-19\Property Tax Deadline]
Brooklyn Borough President Adams. “Every day we are waking up faced with hard decisions to make – but this is not one of them. This is simple: extend the city’s quarterly property tax deadline to June 1st.”
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[COVID-19\NYC 2020 Census]
Mayor Bill de Blasio: “I am calling on the Census Bureau to extend the census period so that all Americans can get counted without risking their health and safety.”
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[Price Gouging\Coronavirus]
Attorney General James: “On my watch, we will not tolerate schemes or frauds designed to turn large profits by exploiting people’s health concerns.”
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[State of the City\Public Advocate Response]
Public Advocate Williams: “Our children should not be over-policed…Law enforcement should not be responding to mental health crises- that approach has led to tragedy, and it’s neither appropriate for those in need who are making the call, nor fair to the officers answering it.”
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[New York News\Transit]
The Riders Alliance will share stories highlighting the role that the current limited Fair Fares program is already playing in New Yorkers lives and fan out to collect more data from low-income New Yorkers about their experiences learning about, applying for, and using their half-fare MetroCards.
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