NY Gov. Cuomo to appoint special prosecutor to investigate police killings

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s governor is finalizing an executive order directing the attorney general’s office to investigate killings by police.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo met Tuesday with several relatives of several New Yorkers killed by law enforcement officers including Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner. He told reporters earlier in the day that he will soon sign the executive order, which would appoint a special prosecutor through the attorney general’s office to handle cases in which civilians are killed by police in suspicious circumstances.

The move comes after officers weren’t criminally charged last year in deadly encounters with unarmed men in New York and elsewhere. Critics question whether local prosecutors can properl

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[DLnyc]

1. Good! Cuomo sometimes does the right thing.

Schneiderman (the NY Attorney General) has been pretty good, I have met him, he is not a bad guy. Having someone outside the local police-prosecutor 'club' investigate these killings is a huge improvement, IMHO. And Schneiderman has been pretty fearless so far in his investigations, so maybe some actual progress can be made.

Here is a link to a (considerably longer) New York Times article, although it may be behind a paywall for some:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/nyregion/cuomo-to-appoint-special-prosecutor-for-killings-by-police.html?_r=0