BF2S Forums Race relations thread

uziq wrote:

yes, we'll see in 4 weeks what all this opening of pubs and public places achieves. i don't think it'll be at all good.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Video shows racist attack directed at Bloomington Man on 4th of July
https://bloomingtonian.com/2020/07/05/b … ke-monroe/

The aggressors seem like nice people …

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

It's a pity Hollis excused himself for another 7 years or we could keep asking for his opinion case by case and see just how far the excuse-making can stretch. (He wanted money for it, but kept weighing in of his own accord anyway).

Shooting of Jeremy Mardis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jeremy_Mardis

Two-mile chase ends with the shooting of a father with his hands up in the air, and the shooting death of his six-year-old autistic kid who apparently took seven minutes to die from multiple wounds.

You don't have to dig much further than the top layer of dust to find these.

State lawmakers are churning out more proposed laws to hold cops accountable for misconduct.

A bill introduced by state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi (D-Bronx) would require police officers to obtain personal liability insurance to cover civil lawsuits filed against them for excessive force and other abuses as a way to deter misconduct.

Under current law, cops who are sued are represented by the city law department and taxpayers foot the bill for any verdict or settlement.

Biaggi’s proposal would require each officer to obtain individual liability insurance. The city or other local governments would still be required to cover the basic insurance policy to cover tort litigation costs.

But Biaggi said her bill would better hold officers accountable by requiring them to pay any increase in premiums related to payouts for wrongdoing.

“Officers who have misconduct claims brought against them may see their premium go up and will be required to pay those costs. The purpose of this bill is to establish a financial disincentive for police misconduct and create accountability for abhorrent behavior,” she said.

Between July 2017 and June 2018, New York City paid out $230 million in 6,472 cases for alleged misconduct or alleged wrongdoing by officers, according to a report released by city Comptroller Scott Stringer’s Office.

“While taxpayers bailout law enforcement who engage in misconduct, those same officers too often evade meaningful accountability,” Biaggi said.

The measure is just the latest in a slew of police accountability measures that were passed by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month

They include repealing the state’s controversial police records secrecy rule known as “50-a” that sealed off access to disciplinary records, banning the use of chokeholds and codifying Cuomo’s existing executive order granting the state attorney general the power to conduct independent probes of in-custody deaths.

Another bill proposed last week would strip officers of their pensions if found guilty of misconduct.

Momentum for the police accountability measures — stalled in Albany for years — was triggered by the outrage and protests over the police brutality death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.