Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo to appoint his office as the temporary special prosecutor to investigate police actions resulting in the deaths of unarmed civilians, while the governor and the Legislature craft a permanent reform.
Schneiderman said on Monday that he was responding to a “crisis of confidence” in the state’s criminal justice system after a Staten Island grand jury decided an officer should not face criminal charges for a man’s death.
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