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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has formally signed a police reform bill into law, which consists of 10 reform laws following nationwide protests following the assassination of George Floyd.
A package of police reform legislation passed by the legislature this week was signed into law on Friday. Cuomo has signed four of the 10 bills, while the other six bills await his signature.
The legislative package outlaws police use chokeholds, requires all state police to wear body cameras, and allows the release of disciplinary records for police officers, firefighters, and prison officers to be released without their written consent.
He resounded the fake race-based 911 call, a move taken after a highly publicized incident in which a white woman called 911 after a black man, who was watching a bird, demanded that she leusize her dog.
The Strangulation Act was named after Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man who died in 2014.
Restraint tactics have already been banned by the NYPD, but today's law makes breath-freeness punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
I just signed into law nation-leading legislation that:— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 12, 2020
-Ends 50-A
-Bans chokeholds
-Prohibits false race-based 911 calls
-Makes Attorney General the independent prosecutor in killings of unarmed civilians by police
There is more to do & NY will lead the way. pic.twitter.com/i4MUKe37IY
"The truth is this police reform is long overdue and Mr. Floyd's murder is just the most recent murder," Cuomo said Friday. "It's not just about Mr. Floyd's murder. It's about being here before, many, many times before."
Cuomo was joined at the signing ceremony by the Reverend Al Sharpton, Valerie Bell, the mother of Sean Bell, who was killed by an officer in 2006, and Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, who was killed by police in New York in 2014.
Additionally, Cuomo signed an executive order making state funding to police contingent on New York agencies developing a plan by April 1 -- to be enacted into law after consultation with the community -- to "reinvent and modernize police strategies," including use of force guidelines.
"We're not going to fund police agencies in this state that do not look at what has been happening, come to terms with it, and reform themselves," he said.
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