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Happy Birthday Win Rozario 🤍

Today, would have turned 22. Instead, his family will spend today mourning their son and brother whose life was callously taken by NYPD officers Matthew Cianfrocco and Salvatore Alongi.

Win Rozario should be alive. Win’s family should be celebrating him today, not fighting for the officers to be held accountable. According to NYPD records, Alongi and Cianfrocco still earn salaries amounting to over $250,000 annually.

Support the Rozario family in their fight for justice:

Call on NYPD Commissioner Tisch Jessica S. Tisch and Mayor Mamdani Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani to immediately fire officers Matthew Cianfrocco and Salvatore Alongi

Call on the Civilian Complaint Review Board NYC CCRB to schedule the disciplinary trial for the officers

Call on the Mayor and City Council New York City Council to remove NYPD from mental health responses

BREAKING | Thanks to sustained pressure from New Yorkers and over 100 organizations including labor unions, community-based organizations, parents, students, and civil liberties experts, all opposed to the “buffer zone” bill, City Council Speaker Menin will not call for an override vote of the Mayor’s veto.

At a time when free speech is under attack across this country, New York should not be expanding NYPD’s discretion to suppress dissent.

If Intro 175-B had passed, it would have disproportionately impacted Black and Brown students, immigrants, and workers. More police will never make Black and Brown students safer at school. It’s clear that the intent of this bill or any other bill that the Speaker will propose like Intro 175-B are about silencing voices, not increasing safety.

We are opposed to Speaker Menin’s proposal for a new bill that she has signaled that she will rush through City Council. Instead of listening to school communities and learning lessons from this failed veto override process, the Speaker is choosing to follow a path which will lead to the same opposition from New Yorkers.

City Council members should know that communities are organized and watching. We’ll continue to show up and urge them to block any bill that would increase police presence and chills free speech.

Intro 175-b would undermine free speech and the right to protest in NYC at a time they are under attack federally

We are thankful to our council members who have voted against this unconstitutional bill, and we look forward to them to hold the line against the veto override

This afternoon we visited ’s office to leave messages to appreciate him for voting no on Intro 175-b and protecting his constituents right to protest.

Happy Heavenly Birthday, Sean 🕊️ We know true justice would mean you'd be here, celebrating with your family today. You are missed dearly. 🕊️

was killed by NYPD in 2006, on what should have been his wedding day, when he was only 23 years old.