Slain New York City police Officer Wilbert Mora died as the result of an ambush shooting in Harlem last week. But because he was an organ donor, Mora has been able to save at least five lives after his death, according to the CEO of New York City’s organ donation and transplant networ...
“We’ve been here too often. We know the directions to get here,” Pat Lynch, the president of New York City’s Police Benevolent Association, said at the press conference. “It has to stop.” Mulkeen’s death comes as the NYPD has declared a mental health emergency amid aspate of s...
Saturday's shooting comes amid heightened tensions in the city following a grand jury's decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the apparent chokehold death ofGarnerin Staten Island. Last week,two officers were assaultedand hospitalized by protesters near the Brooklyn Bridge, police said, during...
The New York City police officer who used a chokehold on Eric Garner in a 2014 encounter that ended with Garner's death has been fired, New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill announced Monday. Daniel Pantaleo, 34, was fired about two weeks after a police judge recommended that the...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer who spent more than three decades in a vegetative state after being shot in the head during a botched robbery has died, officials said.
"At the time of his passing, Officer Mora's family knew that he became a police officer to protect and serve and save lives, and they wanted to make sure that while that was true in his life, it would also be true, unfortunately, in this trageic death that took this hero away from...
Diller, a married father of one who lived in Massapequa Park, could be heard saying on police body camera footage, the NYPD official said. Diller, 31, was the first NYPD officer killed in the line-of-duty since 2022. Asked about what preceded the shooting, Adams said: “The NYPD’s ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The officer who was fired in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner is suing the New York Police Department and the police commissioner to be reinstated. Daniel Pantaleo’s lawyer, Stuart London, told the New York Post the lawsuit was filed on Wednesday and argued that ...
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Former New York Gov. George Pataki and police union officials quickly lashed out at New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. The governor accused de Blasio of putting officers’ lives at risk because the mayor supported recent protests over the killing of Eric Garner by a New York police officer who w...