Sentences with phrase «police killings of civilians»

Cuomo will also use his executive power to appoint Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as a prosecutor to investigate police killings of civilians for one year.

ALBANY — State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan says the creation of a special prosecutor to investigate police killings of civilians would represent a «radical departure» from traditional grand jury procedures.

District attorneys are still searching for more clarity on their role now that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been granted the power of special prosecutor in cases involving police killings of civilians.

And that closeness is a conflict,» Cuomo said on July 8, 2015 when signing an executive order that empowers the Attorney General to take over investigations of police killings of civilians from local District Attorneys.

Cuomo's executive order made a splash nationally, and New York remains one out of nine states to take action on investigations into police killings of civilians as of early 2017.

District Attorneys across New York are bristling at state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's new authority to investigate police killings of civilians.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office will prosecute a case today involving the police killing of a civilian for the first time since Cuomo granted Schneiderman authority to investigate such incidents.