PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Iris Baez, Member of the Public, on Randy Mastro's Nomination
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Iris Baez, a member of the public who lived through the Giuliani era, strongly opposes Randy Mastro's appointment as Corporation Counsel. She cites Mastro's history of defending controversial policies and his association with former Mayor Giuliani as reasons for her opposition.
- Baez criticizes Mastro's role in defending racist and abusive policing practices during the Giuliani administration
- She mentions personal tragedies, including her son's death, that occurred under policies Mastro supported
- Baez warns that Mastro's appointment could lead to a return of aggressive policing tactics and racial profiling
Iris Baez
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Okay.
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As someone who lived through Giuliani, I'm here today to tell the city council you must reject mayor Adams appointed to Randy Mustra Maestrostras.
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But then Mustra was rightly called Giuliani's people.
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He spent years defending racist abusive policing by Giuliani and white PD.
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Masters Giuliani's chief of staff when when many my son was and Nicholas Haywood and Anthony Rosario and his Humvega was murdered by NYPD.
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He defended Giuliani's broken window, police, and and target black and Latino communities like mine, the sub province.
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I deeply the devil in there, he joined Giuliani in marking and dis dismissing nearly all of the 1998 commissioners of the task force for police community relation already banned the monk mustros to become core counsel in Change 800 lawyers could be disaster.
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New York for your New York City.
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It would mean changing the legal regime and support NYPD accepted force, racial profiling, and the citizenship of poor and low locum community of color.
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I urged the city council to reject me.
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I didn't appoint the arab route.
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Brandy, we thought masters to court council.
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Thank you.
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