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NYPD Blues: Under The Bus and Over the Top

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 1/12/15

Back in the 1990s, following the death of an unarmed civilian at the hands of a police officer, the Mayor at the time attended the dead man’s funeral and told his family that he was “shot under conditions that raised a tremendous amount of questions.”

He was even more definitive in talking to reporters about the case shortly after the fatal confrontation, telling them that normally in such controversies there was a plausible explanation for using deadly force offered by the cops involved, even if it ultimately didn’t hold up under scrutiny. In this instance, he said in the City Hall Blue Room, “there does not appear to be an explanation for it.”

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