National Action Network officials and members of the organization’s Law Enforcement Safety Coalition are meeting today with the city to discuss criticism of police officials, the death of Eric Garner and other topics.
The meeting is being held at the city Department of Investigation’s headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
Coalition members will also have a chance to sit down the city police department’s newly appointed Inspector General and say they hope to have a constructive back and forth.
“We’re open to also having the dialogue to see what’s on their table and what they’re thinking about because you know they had several conversations as well with different party’s interest. We want to make sure there’s an unbiased investigation, a professional investigation, that does give the officers the fairness but as well does justice by giving the community confidence, which I don’t think the community has the confidence in the police department to do their own investigation right now,” said Anthony Miranda of the Latino Officers Association.
Meantime, Police Commissioner William Bratton responded Friday to criticism the NYPD has been receiving over the death of Eric Garner.
Bratton defended his broken policing policy on “CBS This Morning.”
He says police only target certain behavior, not specific communities.
He says all evidence needs to be considered by investigators in Garner’s death, but admits the widely-seen video of the arrest has had a great impact.
“This particular scene which has been repeated thousands upon thousands of times really has struck a cord with the public,” Bratton said.
Meanwhile, the family of Eric Garner says they will march across the Verrazano Bridge later this month with Reverend Al Sharpton.
Bratton says it’s up to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to decide whether to authorize a closure of the bridge for the proposed demonstration.
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