The battle pits a pro-police mayor, an NYPD veteran himself, against a progressive City Council, which approved the three bills last month by large margins during its last meeting of 2023.

“We are prepared to override the mayor’s veto,” council member Crystal Hudson, who sponsored a bill to strengthen laws around consenting to a search, told The Intercept.

Sisay added, “This is the time when the mayor should really be thinking about how this heightened transparency could increase safety and well-being of Black and brown New Yorkers, but instead they’re engaged in fear-mongering and spreading of misinformation about what the bill does.”

The mothers of Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Anthony Baez, and many others wrote a letter to the mayor in December calling on him to sign the package into law.

Hudson, council member Alexa Avilés, and Williams, the public advocate, backed the package of police accountability measures.

Adams has publicly attacked Williams over the series of policing bills, including during an announcement alongside NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban earlier this month.

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