Responding to protests raised when a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner, Governor Cuomo signed an executive order July 8 giving Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the authority to appoint himself a special prosecutor in cases of civilians who die at the hands of law-enforcement officers.
The order covers cases in which the civilian was clearly unarmed and those in which it was not clear whether the person was armed. Police unions have criticized the plan as setting up a parallel, unfairly harsh system of justice for police officers.
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