The Legal Aid Society and the New York Civil Liberties Union condemned City leadership following a report issued today by the New York City Department of Investigation into the New York Police Department’s response to the George Floyd demonstrations, reports The Wall Street Journal.

While Legal Aid and NYCLU welcomed the reforms measures detailed in the report, it failed to condemn the leadership failures of Mayor de Blasio, Police Commissioner Shea and other police leaders who created a de facto policy permitting and encouraging individual officers to target protesters for brutal treatment and unlawful arrests.

“The fundamental problem is a Department whose leadership and culture allowed the events of this summer to unfold, refuses to confront its own conduct, and does nothing to address the root causes of these longstanding problems,” a joint statement from the two organizations reads in part.