Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday ordered an urgent investigation into cops who rammed NYPD SUVs into a crowd in Brooklyn — while openly blaming the protesters.
“I did not want to ever see something like that, and I don’t want to ever see it again,” he said of the “disturbing” video that showed the squad vehicles driving into demonstrators on Flatbush Avenue Saturday.
“Clearly, we need to do a full investigation and look at the actions of those officers,” he said.
An independent review has already been called to probe police handling of the George Floyd protests, the mayor said, joining NYPD’s own internal reviews.
The team — helmed by the city’s Corporation Counsel, Jim Johnson, and Investigation Department Commissioner Margaret Garnett — will share “very quick results” of “an initial evaluation” by June, de Blasio said.
However, Hizzoner again seemed to have reached his own conclusion, blaming the protesters rather than the officers who drove into them.
“That situation was created by a group of protesters blocking and surrounding a police vehicle,” he insisted at the press briefing, calling it a common tactic “that can be very very dangerous to everyone involved.”
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