April Taylor, one of the members of Lexington Police Department Accountability, has pushed for the city to do away with the prohibition that only allowed police to go back five years when considering discipline actions. Taylor said the changes to the contract show that what the city was at first resistant to consider, could be done. “As much as the Mayor and. LPD said that civilians reviewing police discipline was not possible without a change to state law, this shows that it was always possible and is (in) line with ... the Mayor’s Commission on Racial Justice and Equality recommendation,” Taylor said. The commission had recommended putting civilians on the internal police review board. Taylor and other protesters are facing charges related to the protests this summer even though charges against Black Lives Matter protesters in other cities have been dropped. “We have been criminalized for asking for changes that were obviously needed or they would not have been made,” Taylor said. “This includes allowing citizens to make complaints to someone other than an LPD officer, increasing the look back period for officer discipline to include their entire history, increasing body camera usage to all officers and also allowing citizens to review officer discipline. Charges need to be dropped.”