New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton will announce his resignation Tuesday, multiple news outlets reported.
NYPD's Chief of Department James O'Neill will reportedly replace him.
Bratton, who was appointed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014, previously planned to step down from his post by the end of 2017.
“When I find the right time, that's when there'll be a consultation with the mayor. I'm not worried about getting kicked out of the place, fortunately,” he said during a press conference last month.
Under Bratton, there's been a dramatic reduction in the use of stop-and-frisk by New York police officers. But Bratton's latest tenure at the top of the NYPD ― he previously served as commissioner from 1994 to 1996 ― has also been marked by the police killings of unarmed black men like Eric Garner and Akai Gurley.
Bratton drew the ire of civil rights advocates when he criticized the Black Lives Matter movement as “leaderless” and called on protesters to stop “yelling and screaming” at police.
“Unlike the civil rights movement, which focused on the broad needs of desegregation and a segregated country, the needs of jobs, the needs of voting rights, the needs of education, the Black Lives Matter movement has focused entirely on police, and is not engaging in dialogue, instead engaging in protests where there's a lot of yelling and screaming,” Bratton told WABC radio.
Those remarks prompted protesters to stage a sit-in at a park next to city hall, vowing to remain until Bratton was fired.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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