[NYC Public Schools\COVID-19]
Politico: The nation’s largest school system will not be able to fully reopen for its 1.1 million students because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio
Mayor de Blasio’s Announces Internet Plan for Hard-Hit COVID-19 Communities
[Interner Acess\COVID-19]
de Blasio: “Our mission to deliver affordable, high-quality internet service has never felt more urgent. COVID-19 has further exposed the inequalities in internet access.”
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GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS: MAYOR DE BLASIO OKAY WITH NYPD VEHICLES SHOWN DRIVING THROUGH PROTESTERS
[NYPD\George Floyd Protesters”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Your comments tonight were unacceptable. Defending and making excuses for NYPD running SUVs into crowds was wrong.”
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NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE WELCOMES INCLUSION OF “CURE VIOLENCE” GROUPS IN COVID-19 RESPONSE
[COVID-19\Cure Violence Groups]
Williams: “Our office has led the call…in pushing, for the city to move away from a law-enforcement centered response and to employ a grassroots, community-driven approach… encouraging social distancing- specifically by utilizing the existing Cure Violence Model.”
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DE BLASIO DESPICABLY DEFENDS NYPD POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST BLACKS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
[“Speaking Truth To Empower”]
Benjamin: “Memo to the mayor, since he may be suffering from clinical amnesia: police abuse and murder Black people, not the other way around. Black people endure levels of abuse and violence from police that no other group is subjected too.”
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NEW YORK CITY LAUNCHES CITYWIDE COVID-19 ANTIBODY TESTING SURVEY
[COVID-19 Antibody Testing]
Mayor de Blasio: “While antibody tests are not a fix-all solution, they will give our communities the knowledge they need to help us defeat this virus together.”
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NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE CALLS FOR OVERSIGHT, DATA PROTECTIONS IN COVID-19 CONTACT TRACING PROGRAM
[NYC Public Advocate]
Public Advocate Williams: “As contact tracing is employed to stem the transmission of COVID-19 and protect New Yorkers’ health, it is vital to ensure that in intent and in impact, protecting the public health without jeopardizing the public’s civil liberties.”
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NYPD THUG COP GARCIA SHOULD BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY FOR ASSAULTING BLACK MAN
[Black Star Editorial]
The behavior seen on the video is acceptable to the NYPD which chose to give us moronic statements about “fighting stance”…If this is the way officers behave out in the public, just how do they behave when they are inside the precincts?
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NYC COUNCIL MEMBER CONDEMNS NYPD BRUTALITY AGAINST DONNI WRIGHT
[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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NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE WELCOMES COVID-19 RACIAL DISPARITY TASK FORCE
[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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