New York Bar Group to Study Police Brutality, New President Says

The new president of the New York State Bar Association says one of his first priorities will be to examine police brutality against black New Yorkers.

Scott Karson said he plans to establish a study on the controversy that also will look at legal issues surrounding related civil unrest and how the bar can best respond.

“Now we’re dealing with a whole new set of circumstances beyond the Covid-19 crisis, which deals with the issues of police brutality and civil unrest,” Karson told Bloomberg Law in an interview. “I think we’re going to be addressing that in fairly short order.” ...