Following a falling-out with Mayor de Blasio, the NYPD’s Chief of Patrol, Fausto Pichardo, said Oct. 13 he would be leaving the department, less than a year after being named to the high-profile post.
Chief Pichardo, one of the NYPD’s most-respected cops and its top Latino officer, was reportedly angered after being berated by Mr. de Blasio for not having answered the Mayor’s phone calls as protests by Orthodox Jewish residents, upset by newly imposed COVID-related restrictions in Brooklyn, escalated earlier this month.
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