REMARKS
Council Member De La Rosa Explains Her Vote to Override the Mayor's Vetoes
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Council Member De La Rosa emphasizes the necessity of enhanced oversight and accountability for law enforcement.
She affirms a stance against solitary confinement underscores the role of transparency in building stronger community ties.
De La Rosa's remarks include a portion in Spanish.
Speaker 2
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De La Rosa.
Speaker 20
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Permission to explain my vote?
Speaker 1
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Permission to answer.
Speaker 20
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Thank you so much.
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First of all, I wanna thank madam speaker and our colleagues our public advocate for their brave leadership today.
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I wanna say a few words in Spanish because I think it is important as we highlight the diversity of our city that our communities understand what is our stake today?
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Iung Lago, Israel, the Bucharest, the Washington Heights Alan Feluiz, where they have a more the manera in Humana is in dignity that in Las Vegas.
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With agencies given that much power, taxpayer funding and responsibility, we hold them to a higher standard and should be able to hold them accountable when necessary not to weaken the checks and balances built to ensure that our city runs smoothly.
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This is not the first time in our city's history that the police have been vehemently against accountability measures.
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But accountability measures are far overdue for those sworn to protect all New Yorkers.
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The way we build stronger ties is by bringing sunlight and transparency which is what we will do here today.
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On solitary, I simply wanna say that I am proud to vote to ban on the ban on solitary confinement.
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I was proud to vote as a member of the state legislature to to to undo this torture in state jails, and today I am proud to vote in honor of those who have lost their lives in our New York City jails.
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Torture by any other name is still torture.
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And evoking Doctor King, we all know that it that the time is always right to do the right thing, and the time is now.
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I will I.