Sentences with phrase «nypd housing officer»
«I myself am very upset and really losing a lot of faith and trust in the matter in which this office here now call themselves doing an investigation,» said Nicholas Heyward, Sr., whose son Nicholas Heyward, Jr. was fatally shot by NYPD Housing officer Brian George in the Gowanus Houses.
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A Brooklyn NYPD boss doled out comp time to his cops so they would turn a dingy station house garage into a private cigar lounge — where officers puff away in violation of city and state law.
Herman Bell, who, along with two other members of the Black Liberation Army, shot and killed two NYPD officers outside a housing project in Harlem in 1971, has been granted parole.
New York Daily News: House passes bill to help people donating to families of slain NYPD officers Wenjian Liu, Rafael Ramos
An NYPD officer was reportedly indicted on multiple charges, including manslaughter, in the November shooting death of an unarmed black man in the darkened stairwell of a housing project.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Friday will appoint Carlos M. Gomez — the highest ranking uniformed Hispanic officer in the NYPD — to the top spot in the Housing Bureau, The...
The former NYPD officer convicted of manslaughter for shooting an unarmed public housing resident as he entered a darkened stairwell in Brooklyn in 2014 does not pose a threat to the public and should not be sentenced to prison, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, who prosecuted him.
A Brooklyn judge ruled on Thursday that the manslaughter conviction of Peter Liang — the former NYPD officer who accidentally shot un unarmed Akai Gurley in a public housing project...
In a blockbuster move, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Thursday said Deputy Inspector James Grant, the commanding officer of the 19th Precinct on the Upper East Side, had been placed on modified duty and stripped of his gun and badge, as was Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, who was the No. 2 in the NYPD's citywide housing bureau.
The on - topic and off - topic questions in the Q&A portion of the press conference included: the project status when de Blasio took office and how his approach to affordable housing differs from Mayor Bloomberg, whether there are any differences in Phase I of the project as being initiated now versus as approved by the Bloomberg administration, what he sees as a realistic percentage of units being «affordable» in projects located closer to or in Manhattan, whether he counts this project towards his goal of 200,000 affordable units, the NYPD officer recently arrested in India, the status of speed camera approvals from Albany, the FOIL delays and responses which did not produce any emails or documents in the Findlayter case, the NYPD / FDNY hockey brawl, Queens Library President Thomas Galante and the newly elected leadership of NYSUT (the state teachers union).
SOHO — Councilwoman Margaret Chin issued a statement requesting «leniency» in the sentencing of the former NYPD officer convicted of killing an unarmed black man in a Brooklyn public housing stairwell.
BROOKLYN — A jury found NYPD Officer Peter Liang guilty of manslaughter and official misconduct Thursday evening in the fatal shooting of unarmed father Akai Gurley in the stairwell of an East New York housing complex in November 2014.
For four minutes, the NYPD police officer who had just fired his gun into a darkened housing project stairwell argued with his partner over whether to tell their superiors about the shot.
Two NYPD officers were shot at and wounded at a Bronx housing project last night by a gunman who then fled and took his own life, police said.
Former NYPD officer Peter Liang was sentenced to probation by a Brooklyn judge for shooting an unarmed black man in a public housing project stairwell in 2014 in a ruling expected to set off denunciations from police critics.
Now that former NYPD Officer Peter Liang has avoided prison for fatally shooting Akai Gurley, questions turn to the broken elevator, broken lights and police practice in a Brooklyn public housing project that made the deadly episode possible.
Peter Liang — the NYPD officer who in 2014 shot blindly into a darkened public housing stairwell in Brooklyn where Akai Gurley was standing, striking and killing him — was found guilty of 2nd degree manslaughter and other charges.
The group is an organization of active and retired NYPD officers of all ranks, including officers of the former Housing and Transit Police.
After the murder of an NYPD officer Tuesday night, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Friday he would provide $ 42 million in funding for security improvements at New York City Housing Authority developments.
One day after an NYPD officer was convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed public housing resident while on patrol there, Mayor Bill de Blasio said those patrols are essential to protecting public housing residents.
The Borough President recalled hearing the rapper's music being played throughout the community, and said as a former NYPD officer he used to «blast Biggie in the locker room of the precinct... to let them know that Biggie's in the house.»
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams seemed to rebuke NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on the airwaves this morning for labeling the shooting death of Akai Gurley at the hands of Officer Peter Liang in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project as «an accident.»
BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn judge refused to toss out the indictment against rookie NYPD Officer Peter Liang, who is accused of fatally shooting Akai Gurley in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project last November.
George had been reporting on the trial of Peter Liang, an NYPD officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in a public housing stairwell in 2014.
Thompson was also lauded for successfully prosecuting NYPD officer Peter Liang after the fatal shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley in a dark public housing stairwell.
The NYPD headcount remained the same, though 200 officers were shifted from desk jobs and were deployed on the street and in public housing as part of a budget agreement.
A day after a Brooklyn jury convicted NYPD Officer Peter Liang of manslaughter in the killing of public housing resident Akai Gurley, Mayor Bill de Blasio defended the kind of routine stairwell search that precipitated the 28 - year - old unarmed man's death in 2014.
THE BRONX — The departmental trial for the NYPD officer who fatally shot unarmed teen Ramarley Graham inside the bathroom of his Wakefield house almost five years ago is set for January, officials said Wednesday.