A New York police officer has been suspended after a man was killed trying to evade law enforcement. CCTV footage shows the officer grabbing a cooler and throwing it in the face of the victim, a 30-year-old drug dealer who died instantly.
A 30-year-old man died in New York during a police intervention, hit by a cooler thrown in his direction by a police officer. The scene filmed by a surveillance camera took place a few days ago in the Bronx, New York, on the sidelines of a police undercover operation.
It was in the middle of an anti-drug operation that the police were approached by the victim, a 30-year-old dealer, who offered them drugs, unaware that they were undercover agents.
In the process, the police try to arrest him but the suspect flees on a motorcycle. To escape the police, he drives very fast on a sidewalk. And this is where Sergeant Erik Duran, also in civilian clothes, comes in. When the fugitive on a motorbike arrives at his height, he throws him what he has at hand, in this case a picnic cooler filled with drinks and ice, the cooler of a family, that he swings right in his head.
“We don’t train our officers to pick up something and throw it at a suspect”
CCTV footage is appalling. The suspect, without a helmet, immediately fell and crashed into a tree, then into a car. He died instantly.
The case triggered an immediate investigation. Officials of the NYPD, the New York police, announced that Sergeant Erik Duran was obviously suspended from his duties, he who has been in the police force for 13 years and who has been awarded numerous times.
Hence the incomprehension of his fatal gesture, which his colleagues dissociate themselves from: “We do not train our agents to pick up something and throw it at a suspect”, assured a police officer.
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2023-08-28 10:50:15
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