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- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 56–4
- Ordered to third reading cal.1234
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to codes
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–2
- Ordered to third reading cal.1361
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- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to codes
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In relation to aggravated assault upon a police officer
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor David Weprin
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4133
Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated assault upon a police officer
Purpose
To create an offense for aggravated assault of a police officer or peace officer when a person is aided by two or more persons at an assembly in a public place.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of this bill amends section 120.11 of the Penal Law to provide for aggravated assault of a police officer or peace officer when with intent to cause physical injury to a person who he or she knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or peace officer engaged in his or her official duties, when aided by two or more other persons actually present at an assembly in a public place, he or she causes physical injury to a police officer or peace officer.
Section 2 of this bill provides that this act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
Justification
With the recent demonstrations in New York City in 2014, it has become increasingly vital that police officers and peace officers are protected when working these demonstrations.
In December 2014, there was a protest in New York City that had over 25,000 attendees. While the protest was largely peaceful, there were still two NYPD officers assaulted on the Brooklyn Bridge. Those officers ended up in the hospital as a result of their injuries. Additionally, a bag of hammers was found on the bridge. There were many calls for violence against police officers in the wake of the Eric Garner grand jury decision, and the ire and tension has continued since the news of the lack of indictment by the Staten Island grand jury that heard the case.
This proposed amendment to the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer would ensure further protection for police officers and peace officers tasked with monitoring demonstrations, and would punish those who use a normally peaceful form of protest as a means to assault police officers and peace officers whom ensure that protests remain peaceful and orderly.
Legislative history
New Bill
Fiscal implications
None to the State
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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