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Advocates say the Strategic Response Group uses excessive force while the NYPD calls the unit a “critical asset.”
Dozens rallied outside City Hall after officials postponed an oversight hearing on the group.
As the department faces growing pressure to revamp its protest policing, the rise of the Strategic Response Group could prove instructive.
“I was being falsely accused of something I hadn’t done, and I was being prosecuted by the police, the same people who had falsely arrested me, like we were going down the slope to a police state.”
The poor thing was hiding in a car's wheel well.
"Safe from crime, safe from terrorists, safe from disorder," Bratton promised the press who had gathered for the security theater demonstration.