COVID-19
Professors Explain Racial Disparities in Social Distancing Arrests
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Preliminary data reveals that black and brown communities may be disproportionately affected by the New York City Police Department’s social distancing enforcement.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/nypd/)
Preliminary data reveals that black and brown communities may be disproportionately affected by the New York City Police Department’s social distancing enforcement.
The New York Police Department arrested Cornell alumnus Eric Cho ’18, an Applied Economics and Management major, after an altercation involving two New York Police Department officers. According to an NYPD statement sent to The Sun, during the altercation, Cho ran to the driver’s side of the police car, grabbed the officer behind the wheel by his throat, choked him and punched him in the chest.