Rochester City Council President Loretta Scott says the council will begin planning out changes to the city’s civilian police review process in the coming weeks, and hopes to have it in place this coming summer. Scott says this is after the council has finished its review of the Rickey Bryant case, the young man who […]
The Rochester City Council has voted to use its subpoena power for the first time, asking the city’s police department to turn over its records on the Ricky Bryant case for review. The 18-year-old suffered a fractured eye socket after being stopped by police while leaving last summer’s Puerto Rican festival. Officers suspected he might […]
The family of Rochester teenager Ricky Bryant is calling for a criminal investigation of claims that he was beaten, kicked and tasered by five city police officers last year. The Rochester Police Department released its nine-month investigation into the incident last month, and found the officers acted within the department’s policies. The Reverend Lewis Stewart […]