Peter Wanless's review will also cover how
police and prosecutors handled any information given to them.
Not exact matches
Kenneth Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, blasted a request to appoint a special
prosecutor in Eric Garner - like cases as «unworkable,» continuing his unusually outspoken defense of district attorneys
and how they
handle police brutality cases.
And a measure to require a special
prosecutor to
handle police - involved fatal shootings also failed, Cuomo said.
Members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus on Wednesday at the state Capitol called for the appointment of a special
prosecutor to
handle cases of
police brutality
and deaths caused by
police confrontations.
The half - dozen cases that are now part of the investigation, which began in 2013
and has already claimed a county
police chief, were all
handled by Mr. Spota's top anticorruption
prosecutor, Christopher McPartland.
In a statement Friday afternoon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office appeared to suggest it may consider removing Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove from office, after the local
prosecutor was arraigned earlier in the day on two counts of official misconduct
and one count of perjury in connection with his
handling of the April 2016
police shooting of Edson Thevenin on the Collar City Bridge.
A Connecticut
prosecutor says that a fatal
police shooting of a suicidal, knife - wielding man was justified
and police need better training to
handle these situations.