The City Police Inspectorate (CCRB) report published on Monday (local time) investigated 112 related complaints. Almost two thirds of them concerned cases in which non-whites were controlled, it said.
The cases date from January 2018 to June 2019. In some, adolescents got into police controls because of seemingly harmless concerns, for example because they played with sticks, carried backpacks, ran or pushed each other around, it said.
According to the report, there was insufficient evidence of police misconduct in 42 percent of the complaints. In 29 percent of the cases, however, the complaint proved to be well founded. The New York police should avoid excessive controls of non-white youth, the report said.
People are currently taking to the streets in numerous US cities to demonstrate against police violence. The trigger was the death of the African American George Floyd on May 25th in Minneapolis during a police operation. A white officer had pushed his knee back for almost nine minutes, despite Floyd’s requests to let him breathe.
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