NYPD fires officer in connection with off-duty shooting
Source: The Hill
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has reportedly fired an officer in connection with an off-duty shooting earlier this month, police said Friday.
The New York Post reported that Sgt. Ritchard Blake, 40, was terminated on Friday after NBC's New York affiliate reported a video that appears to show Blake planting a knife alongside 21-year-old Thavone Santana after the Aug. 2 shooting occurred.
NYPD commissioner James ONeill said earlier this month that it appeared as if Blake was attempting to plant the weapon on Santana. Santana survived the shooting and his family called for Blake's removal from the force.
Thats what it looks like, ONeill told local news station WPIX 11 of the allegations that Blake had attempted to plant a weapon near Santana. But theres an investigation that needs to be done to determine that.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/402481-nypd-fires-off-duty-officer-under-investigation-for-allegedly-planting
tblue37
(65,442 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,189 posts)And when they are white, they are usually acquitted and even rehired.
Bad cops no matter what race, don't need to be LEOs in any case.
lapucelle
(18,285 posts)An NYPD sergeant was fired on Friday in connection with his off-duty shooting of a romantic rival in Brooklyn earlier this month, sources told The Post.
Ritchard Blake, 40, was canned amid an Internal Affairs investigation into his shooting of Thavone Santana, 21, in the early hours of Aug. 2, police sources.
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Moments before the shooting, Blake, Santana and Lima were all screaming at each other in Limas doorway with Santana at one point telling Blake, Control your bitch! neighbors said.
https://nypost.com/2018/08/17/nypd-fires-cop-accused-of-shooting-romantic-rival-in-face/
The officer and the man he shot knew one another, law enforcement officials say.
New video obtained by News 4 shows the off-duty NYPD sergeant who shot a man he claimed to be a robber Thursday morning appearing to shoot the man during a conversation before dropping an item by him.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/NYPD-Sergeant-Police-Officer-Shoots-Man-Brooklyn-489966571.html
ROB-ROX
(767 posts)This jack ass tried to kill a person. This jack ass should be in jail, then court, then prison. I think his retirement should be REVOKED for bad service and fired for being DISHONEST. This should strike terror in other dishonest cops........