Cuomo, Schneiderman tout NY’s response to killings by police
New York’s new system of investigating cases in which unarmed civilians are killed by police should serve as an example as other states look to shore up confidence in law enforcement, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Monday.
The two Democrats made their remarks following a closed-door meeting with U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) and members of the state’s Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, which was called to discuss the state’s new special prosecutorial unit tasked with investigating and potentially prosecuting cases involving killings by police or the deaths of civilians in police custody.
“This is a national model,” Schneiderman said. “There is no other state that has done this.”