JUSTICE LEAGUE NYC announce their list of demands (PHOTOS).

Wednesday, December 10th, 2014. New York City – Today, JUSTICE LEAGUE NYC gathered for a press conference at City Hall to announce their list of demands.

On Facebook they say, “International Human Rights Day-for an International Day of Action to End Police Brutality and declare that #BlackLivesMatter everywhere. Police forces across the world brutalize minorities with excessive force and face no consequences.”

They add, “We begin our #ICantBreatheUntil campaign on this day to show solidarity with families of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, Ramarley Graham, John Crawford III, Sandra Amezquita and countless other people of color who have lost their lives to police violence, to show solidarity with Black and Brown communities, and commit to ending police brutality and structural racism of nation states. Our aim is a #GlobalShutDown that shows the world powers that solidarity knows no borders.”

THEIR DEMANDS:

1- The immediate firing of Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo and all officers responsible for the death of Eric Garner.
2- The State of NY will appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute all criminal cases involving the use of force, including deadly force, by police officers, and in particular, immediately appoint a Special Prosecutor in the wrongful death of Eric Garner.
3- The City and State of New York Draft Legislation to clarify the rules of engagement between the police and the community to make illegal the use of lethal force, including the chokehold, except to protect against serious, imminent physical injury to the police officers or the public.
4- NYC create a comprehensive NYPD Training Program for ALL officers – to include crisis intervention, harm reduction and de-escalation skills – to eliminate racial bias and police brutality.
5- An immediate end to NYPD’s “Broken Windows” Policing, which overwhelmingly targets black and brown communities with aggressive quality of life policing and enforcement tactics that could escalate to excessive force as in the case of Eric Garner.
6- An end the criminalization of young people in the NY school system. The “school-to-prison pipeline” targets primarily youth of color and has created a generation of youth growing up incarcerated. Mayor de Blasio has made this a hallmark of his historic campaign, but has yet to adopt necessary reforms.
7- US Attorney General Eric Holder expedite the federal investigation into the death of Eric Garner.
8- Immediate passage of the Right to Know Act.
9- NY State and all localities engage in complete transparency in regards to profiling, and search and seizure practices, and to provide all public data on other police practices including summonses, arrests and detention practices.
10- We call on Mayor Bill de Blasio, Governor Andrew Cuomo and NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to meet with Justice League NYC in order to explore all avenues to make viable implementation of the above demands as immediately and efficiently as possible.

They also invited to the Millions March NYC this Saturday, December 13, 2014. People will gather at Washington Square Park at 2pm.

JUSTICE LEAGUE NYC – a task force of juvenile and criminal justice advocates, artists and experts, and formerly incarcerated individuals, brought together under the banner of The Gathering for Justice, a social justice organization founded by Harry Belafonte in 2005.

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