{"id":1996,"date":"2020-06-20T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2020-06-20T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T17:39:09","slug":"speaker-corey-johnson-and-oversight-and-investigations-chair-ritchie-torres-announce-subpoena-for-report-on-police-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/06\/20\/1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Corey Johnson and Oversight and Investigations Chair Ritchie Torres Announce Subpoena for Report on Police Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson&nbsp;and Oversight and Investigations Chair Ritchie Torres today announced that the Council will&nbsp;subpoena&nbsp;a Department of Health and Mental Hygiene report that purportedly shows more police-involved deaths in New York City than&nbsp;has been&nbsp;previously reported. The existence of this report was&nbsp;disclosed&nbsp;in&nbsp;an op-ed by journalist Mara Gay in&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>on Friday afternoon. The Council will ask for the report referred to in the&nbsp;<em>Times&nbsp;<\/em>and any drafts that went to&nbsp;Mayor de Blasio.&nbsp;The Council is&nbsp;also&nbsp;demanding a written explanation of why&nbsp;these&nbsp;findings were not&nbsp;released to&nbsp;the&nbsp;public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The de Blasio&nbsp;administration&nbsp;will have until June 23, 2020&nbsp;to&nbsp;provide the&nbsp;report&nbsp;to the Council&nbsp;and until June 26, 2020&nbsp;to give us any drafts of report that went to&nbsp;the Mayor.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRacism and police brutality are public health emergencies, but we cannot fight those battles in full force when the City is hiding information about New Yorkers killed by police.&nbsp;New Yorkers deserve to know why this report was delayed. Oversight Chair Ritchie Torres and I are issuing a subpoena to find out,\u201d said Council Speaker Corey Johnson.&nbsp;\u201cI thank the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;for its reporting on this&nbsp;issue and&nbsp;revealing the existence of this previously undisclosed report.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSpeaker Johnson and I are going to issue a subpoena to obtain the internal DOHMH document revealing the NYPD\u2019s egregious underreporting of deaths at the hands of police, and&nbsp;I join the Speaker in thanking the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;for revealing the existence of the report.&nbsp;The Council rarely issues subpoenas. But given the seriousness of DOHMH withholding information about unreported police-involved deaths, the Speaker and I concluded that we have been left with no other choice,\u201d said Oversight and Investigations&nbsp;Chair Ritchie Torres. \u201cStay tuned.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">###&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson&nbsp;and Oversight and Investigations Chair Ritchie Torres today announced that the Council will&nbsp;subpoena&nbsp;a Department of Health and Mental Hygiene report that purportedly shows more police-involved deaths in New York City than&nbsp;has been&nbsp;previously reported. The existence of this report was&nbsp;disclosed&nbsp;in&nbsp;an op-ed by journalist Mara Gay in&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>on Friday afternoon. The Council will ask for the report referred to in the&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/06\/20\/1996\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}