“In New York City public schools, that means eliminating police in schools and using the bloated school policing budget to fund guidance counselors, social workers, and restorative justice programming instead,” the group said. The confrontation spiraled this week when Floyd broached Williams’ prior brush with the law and demanded that he unseal records related to a 2009 domestic incident.Īrguing that Floyd’s offensive was made in “bad faith,” Dignity in Schools contended that “a vast majority of New Yorkers” support removing any NYPD role in city schools and that the “racial justice uprisings” over the summer have only deepened that position.

“We unequivocally condemn Local 237 President Gregory Floyd’s attack on Public Advocate Jumaane Williams for advocating on behalf of the youth who have been harmed at the hands of school police,” said a coalition of progressive youth groups and other organizations called Dignity in Schools.įloyd, who opposes handing the school safety reins to the DOE, has pushed back on WIlliams’ characterization of his membership being prone to student abuse.

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