The last shooting death of an NYPD officer came in December 2011, when 22-year veteran Peter Figoski responded to a report of a break-in at a Brooklyn apartment. He was shot in the face and killed by one of the suspects hiding in a side room when officers arrived. The triggerman, Lamo...
The wounded officers were rushed to Kings County Hospital, where several cops lined up outside in solidarity. "We had a horrible, painful incident late last night in Brooklyn. Three of our officers wounded in an absolutely unprovoked attack,"Mayor Bill de Blasiosaid Thursday. "We are still p...
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to a nearby subway station, where he shot and killed himself. Investigators believe he had posted a note on Instagram before the shootings mentioning Eric Garner and Michael Brown, two unarmed black men killed in recent months by police. "I'm putting wings on pigs today," the message read....
Diller was the first New York City police officer killed in the line of duty in two years. The previous line-of-duty deaths were the fatal shootings of two New York City police officers, and the day after the second funeral, Biden visited the police department’s headquarters and spoke t...
A huge contingency of police officers in New York City moved in on Columbia University on the upper west side of the city Tuesday night, to regain control of a portion of the campus that had been overtaken by Palestinian protesters.
"We are watching our sons mostly -- our daughters, too -- be shot down and killed, and we have not been able to protect them," Waters said. She also called for the arrest of the police officers who shotBreonna Taylor, a black EMT, in her Louisville, Kentucky, home while executing ...
“Today, two have fallen, in a stark reminder of the challenges and risks that our law enforcement officers face every day, both in New York City and throughout our nation,” Lynch said. Michael Brown’s family “We reject any kind of violence directed toward members of law enforcement. I...
The two New York Police Department officers who were killed responding last week to a domestic disturbance call are being remembered as dedicated heroes as city officials step up their push to curb escalating crime. Officers Wilbert Mora and Jason Rivera, both in their 20s, were shot after enc...
The high-profile, high-tech manhunt for the masked shooter who killed the head of one of the country’s largest health insurers is the first major hurdle for a new NYPD commissioner long familiar with department culture and a strong proponent of surveillance technology in crime fighting. “I...