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BLM Lawyers: Police Should Hand Over Footage of Garner Protests

Attorneys for Black Lives Matter requested that a Manhattan judge force the NYPD to fork over surveillance records pertaining to protests stemming from the 2014 death of Eric Garner. So reports The New York Post.

The attorneys allege undercover officers targeted police critics and sought police communication and footage at Grand Central Terminal from November 2014 to January 2015. Citing New York’s Freedom of Information Law, police lawyers said the NYPD is exempt from producing records that could “endanger undercover offices or reveal operational tactics.”

Judge Manuel Mendez said a written ruling is pending.

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