Governor Cuomo June 3 threatened to discontinue the executive order he issued four years ago authorizing the State Attorney General to act as a special prosecutor in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed in confrontations with the police unless the State Legislature passes a bill to create a special office to take over that chore.
Mr. Cuomo had given the AG that role—over the objection of District Attorneys throughout the state—on July 8, 2015, saying he understood the angry public reaction to then-Staten Island DA Dan Donovan’s inability to produce a grand-jury indictment the previous December against Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in connection with the death of Eric Garner the previous July.
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