Mayor de Blasio painting a Black Lives Matter mural (photo: Ed Reed/Mayor's Office)
After weeks of mass demonstrations last June calling out police violence against Black people, New York city and state officials responded by passing and signing legislation for police reform and accountability that had seemed indefinitely stalled, ordering investigations into the policing of the protests themselves, and painting murals as a sign of government solidarity with its people.
One of the commitments made by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was to establish a
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