Briana's Law is the name given to New York Senate Bill S3165B signed by Governor Andrew Mark Cuomo during the 2017–2018 Legislative Session which honors the memory of Briana Ojeda. Briana Ojeda was an 11-year-old girl from Brooklyn, New York, who died in the summer of 2010 when police officer Alfonso Mendez did not perform CPR on her after she suffered from an asthma attack. Prior to the passage of the law, the New York Police Department trained its officers in CPR, but they were not obligated by law to perform it. Briana's Law requires that every police officer, member of the State Police, including police officer trainees and state police cadets, receive CPR training prior to employment as well as during employment every two years, where practicable, but no later than 4 years, and requires that individuals demonstrate proficiency in the technique. Briana Ojeda Briana Amaryllis Ojeda was a young girl of Puerto Rican descent born in 1998 in Brooklyn, New York, to Michael Angelo and Carmen Ojeda. Ojeda was raised there and received her primary education in the Boerum Hill Historic District section of that borough. She was about to enter the sixth grade at St. Francis Xavier School. when on August 27, 2010, she suffered an asthma attack while playing in a Carroll Gardens playground. Her mother, Carmen, panicked when she realized that the asthma attack was severe. She rushed to take her daughter to the Long Island College Hospital which was the closest hospital to them in Brooklyn. While driving her car, she mistakenly made a wrong turn on a one way street . Officer Alfonso Mendez, a five-year veteran in the New York Police Department, spotted Mrs. Ojeda's car going in the wrong direction. He told her to pull over and to stop her car. Mrs. Ojeda did as she was told and told the police officer that her daughter was not breathing and needed CPR immediately. According to the testimony of witness Eria Domenech: The New York Police Department does train its officers in CPR, but they were not obligated by law to perform it. Officer Mendez later testified in a deposition that the only training in CPR that he received was that out of a textbook and that he had never practiced it on anyone. Officer Mendez proceeded to give Mrs. Ojeda a ticket which delayed her from continuing on to the hospital.