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Police officers at the scene of the shooting in the Bronx on Dec. 31, 2024. Sam Costanza Police officers placing markers for bullet casings in the street in front of the bodega.
Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old black man, was fatally shot on November 20, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, by a New York City Police Department officer. Two police officers, patrolling stairwells in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)'s Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York, Brooklyn, entered a pitch-dark, unlit stairwell.
Edmund Perry, a Harlem resident, was shot to death by Lee Van Houten, a 24-year-old plainclothes policeman, on June 12, 1985 when he was 17 years old. The case briefly generated a firestorm of protest in New York City when it was revealed that Perry was an honor student and was enrolled to attend Stanford on a scholarship; however, Van Houten said that Perry and his brother had attempted to ...
[5] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said, "The shooting of Officer Brian Moore over the weekend was a deplorable act of violence that has robbed New York of one of its finest." [ 5 ] On May 5, the New York Mets wore NYPD hats and held a moment of silence before their game against the Baltimore Orioles that day. [ 13 ]
The case catapulted into the national spotlight after video of the chokehold went viral following Neely's death, which a New York City medical examiner ruled was caused by "compression of the neck."
The jury at Daniel Penny's lightning-rod Manhattan manslaughter trial broke without reaching a verdict Thursday after asking once again to revisit shocking footage of the fatal subway encounter ...
The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Riot, also known as the City Hall Riot, was a rally organized and sponsored by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) held on September 16, 1992, to protest mayor David Dinkins' proposal to create a civilian agency to investigate police misconduct.
Both had been shot in the head, and the man was shot multiple other times in the body, cops said. The apparent gunman was found outside in the hall with a gunshot wound to the head.