New Group Launches Fight Against de Blasio's Top Cop

[ProSense]

New Group Launches Fight Against de Blasio's Top Cop

When Margarita Rosario began following the mayoral campaign of Bill de Blasio, she believed he’d choose a police commissioner who would finally try to mend the frayed relationship between the New York City Police Department and New Yorkers of color.

De Blasio promised during his campaign to end the abuses of stop and frisk, an aggressive policing tactic that has resulted in the arrests of hundreds of thousands of mostly black and Latino New Yorkers on minor charges. His multiracial family lent credibility to his vows, she thought, and he seemed to have a good understanding of the challenges faced by people of color.

To call Rosario disappointed when the newly elected de Blasio chose William Bratton is an understatement. Bratton was in charge of the NYPD in 1995, when two officers shot and killed Rosario’s 18-year-old son, Anthony, and her nephew Hilton Vega in a Bronx apartment.

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Rosario is now part of a small, ad hoc group of New Yorkers who are protesting Bratton’s return. Calling themselves New Yorkers Against Bratton, members plan to march from Harlem to the Bronx on Friday evening to express their opposition to Bratton and to demand that de Blasio rescind his appointment.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/27/new-yorkers-against-bratton_n_4509200.html

[hrmjustin]

1. I think Bratton should be fine.