George Floyd's Death Sparks Revived Calls for NY Criminal Justice Reform Bills

Alessandra Biaggi

Originally published in Law.com

He talks a really good game about caring about communities of color, about low-income communities. But for the past decade, he has not cared at all,” said state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi earlier this week.

He [Cuomo] is the one who has been in charge. He is the one who has had the power. And he has had a dereliction of duties because he has not cared about anybody in any of these communities of color,” she said. “And only when the time is popular, or when it seems to be right, then he’ll come out and talk about helping communities of color.”