NYPD closes controversial anti-crime unit in nod to reform

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s police department is disbanding the unit involved in Eric Garner’s 2014 chokehold death, Commissioner Dermot Shea said Monday amid a nationwide reckoning for policing in the wake of George Floyd’s death last month in Minneapolis. The NYPD’s anti-crime unit, which operated in plainclothes and focused primarily on seizing […]