and saying he didn’t need medical services,” Williams said at the
City Hall protest.
The city’s Citizen Complaint Review Board revealed Tuesday that
two people have lodged complaints against NYPD cops in the
wake of Garner’s death for placing them in chokeholds.
In an afternoon press conference, Police Commissioner Bill
Bratton called Garner’s death “very tragic” and ordered Deputy
Commissioner of Training Benjamin Tucker to conduct a “top-tobottom” review of instruction on the use of force.
Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News
“This department clearly needs to do more training,” said Bratton,
adding that he anticipates “a retraining of every member of the
New York Police Department.” To that end, he plans to dispatch a
team to look at using the Los Angeles Police Department’s “stateof-the-art” training as a template.
Under a federal decree, the LAPD revamped its training in the use
of force in 2007 after 27 people were hurt at an immigration rally
by cops wielding batons and shooting rubber bullets. Retraining
was instituted by the LAPD to improve command and control of
incidents and placed an emphasis on restraint over the use of
force to defuse violence.
Bratton was the LAPD chief when the new training policies were
put in place.
Bratton, who met with community and religious leaders Tuesday
to discuss the Garner incident and also huddled with police brass
in Staten Island, emphasized that Garner’s death will not affect
his commitment to “broken windows” policing, which cracks
down on petty crimes like selling bootleg cigarettes. Bratton
vowed it will remain a “key part” of his game plan.
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