Celebrates His Legacy In Inspiring Movements for Justice August 9, 2019, New York – Five years after the murder of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the Center for...
August 19, 2019, New York – In response to the announcement today that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo has been fired for his use of an illegal chokehold that killed Eric Garner, the Center for...
August 21, 2019... In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights said: "This is a long overdue modicum of justice for Eric Garner’s family, five years after Mr. Garner’s unjust killing. Now the NYPD must...
August 21, 2019... Pantaleo's firing after remaining on the force for five years amounted to only a "modicum of justice" for Garner's family, the Center for Constitutional Rights said in a statement, calling on the...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to present a screening of Sundance award-winning ALWAYS IN SEASON , followed by discussion and Q&A with Director Jacqueline Olive and...
Updated: September 12, 2019
Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow, Lupe Aguirre , will testify before the New York Senate Standing Committee on Codes Public Hearing on Civil Rights Law 50-a. 50-a is a...
Updated: October 17, 2019
November 8, 2019...Darius Charney, a lawyer for the plaintiffs in the litigation that curbed the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy , offered Chief Shea a three-item to-do list. To gain the trust of those...
November 17, 2019, New York – In response to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s apology for stop and frisk, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: After...
November 21, 2019... The practice stopped and frisked more than 684,000 people at its peak in 2011, ostensibly in many cases to search for illegal weapons. But the non-profit Center for Constitutional Rights...
November 21, 2019... In 2013, a federal judge ruled the policing tactic violated constitutional rights and amounted to “indirect racial profiling,” as police were subjecting people of color to unnecessary stops over...
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