{"id":16416,"date":"2020-06-27T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-curfew-during-george-floyd-protests-was-unconstitutional-class-action-suit-says\/"},"modified":"2020-06-27T04:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:20:00","slug":"nyc-curfew-during-george-floyd-protests-was-unconstitutional-class-action-suit-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-curfew-during-george-floyd-protests-was-unconstitutional-class-action-suit-says\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC curfew during George Floyd protests was unconstitutional, class-action suit says"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC curfew during George Floyd protests was unconstitutional, class-action suit says<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 26, 2020 |<\/span> 9:20pm <\/p>\n

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\n New York City\u2019s recent week-long curfew violated residents\u2019 rights to go outside, a new lawsuit alleges.<\/p>\n

The class-action suit claims the \u201cextremely limited\u201d acts of vandalism and looting in some city neighborhoods during protests around the police killing of George Floyd did not present \u201cclear, imminent danger so substantial that it would outweigh the fundamental freedoms\u201d that the curfew strip<\/a>ped away.<\/p>\n

The controversial curfew ran from June 1 to June 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are very narrow circumstances during which you can relegate an entire city of millions of people to house arrest,\u201d said lawyer Joshua Fitz, who represents the suits three named plaintiffs. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the imminency of the danger and the level of danger you would need to do that was not even remotely met by some isolated acts of vandalism and even looting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fitz said the plaintiffs could be expanded to include any resident who was arrested or fined in violation of the order \u2014 or even all New Yorkers who were confined due to the curfew, which ran from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. on the first night and was bumped up to begin at 8 p.m. for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit hopes to provide financial relief to anyone impacted. It names both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio as defendants.<\/p>\n

At least hundreds of people were arrested for violating curfew as cops tried to quell the demonstrations against police brutality. Many more were summonsed, according to the suit.<\/p>\n

But the lawsuit names three men who claim they were arrested for violating the curfew even though they weren\u2019t in attendance at protests: Lamel Jeffery, Thaddeus Blake and Chayse Pena.<\/p>\n

Blake was charging his phone in an outlet outside of his building in the Bronx after curfew on June 5 when police app<\/a>roached him and ordered him to go inside. When Blake told the officers he needed to first retrieve his phone, they \u201caggressively approached\u201d and handcuffed him.<\/p>\n

Fitch said the curfew played out in a discriminatory way against communities of color.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know too many white people who were afraid to go outside after curfew, or arrested or given summonses the way the minority community was,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve all accepted that there\u2019s a widespread, deadly pandemic. For the last three months city has never instituted a curfew to keep people safe, so the idea that a few instances of looting would make it justified is absurd,\u201d he added.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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