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The new law permits pedestrians to cross a roadway at any point, including outside of a crosswalk. It also allows for crossing against traffic signals and specifically states that doing so is no longer a violation of the city’s administrative code. But the new law also warns that pedestrians crossing outside of a crosswalk do not have the right of way and that they should yield to other traffic that has the right of way.

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[-] zarp86@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

Council member Mercedes Narcisse, a Brooklyn Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said on Tuesday that the new law ends racial disparities in enforcement, noting that more than 90% of the jaywalking tickets issued last year went to Black and Latino people.

Never heard of Walking While Black? This at least forces police to come up with better excuses.

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No you're right. Jaywalking was abused to target minorities but never did the law ever do anything to prevent it from happening.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 week ago

Thats the beauty of the law. All bad faith actors are able to get a use case, the rest gets fucked

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