But he also said the NYPD will soon require officers to undergo “implicit bias” training to help them “identify, understand and change unconscious behaviors that may affect their policing”. In the speech, de Blasio was expected to announce a new collaboration with NYPD and the city’s district attorneys to hasten prosecution of gun crimes. The gunman fled into a seventh-floor apartment where an acquaintance lived.
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Two police officers shot while on patrol in a NY housing project had stopped to question a group of people before getting into an exchange of gunfire.
Espeut and Cruz each have two years of experience on the force, according to the NYPD, and are part of Police Service Area 7, the unit that patrols public housing within the NYPD’s 40th and 42nd precincts.
The wounded officers were rushed to Lincoln Hospital.
NEW YORK (AP) One of two New York City police officers who was shot and wounded in the stairwell of a public housing project was released from the hospital Friday to cheers from fellow officers. Two police officers were shot while on patrol in a public housing project on Thursday night…
The gunman killed himself after opening fire, police said.
Officers Espeut and Cruz were on the sixth floor of a building in the Melrose Houses complex at 320 E. 156th St., in the Bronx, just after 8 p.m. when they encountered two people in a stairwell drinking beer, police said.
Police recovered two guns. He met with the family of one of the officers at the hospital where they were being treated. “Both officers are alert and communicating, and we are praying for the best here”.
“It’s another example of what our officers confront every single day, keeping us safe not only on the streets of New York City, but in the stairwells and the hallways of our public housing developments”, the mayor said. The news outlet reports that Chavis had 17 prior arrests.
His brother took to Facebook to express his grief, writing: “God Bless You my brother”.
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As word spread, words of support for the officers poured in via social media. I hear your spirit and feel you love. “I ain’t going back”, before shooting himself, according to the official. Your love is person is and will always be POWER. “Good riddance sub human scum”.
