The NYPD will move forward with plans to stop using a controversial crowd-control tactic known as “kettling” after a judge denied the Big Apple’s largest police union’s bid to scuttle a federal settlement.
Judge Colleen McMahon on Wednesday scolded the Police Benevolent Association for griping about the deal City Hall agreed to in September to settle suits claiming cops used excessive force when responding to the 2020 George Floyd protests.
“There is no evidence in the record before the court that the PBA’s concerns were not seriously considered,” McMahon wrote in a 42-page ruling in Manhattan federal court.
“There is evidence that it chose to be oppositional simply to be oppositional,” the jurist added.
McMahon also stressed that the police union does not have “veto power” over the arrangement because it is not technically a party to the settlement — which was struck between city and state officials and lawyers for activists.
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