The mayor, a former police officer, praised the officers at the center of a pair of Saturday shootings, adding that their body camera footage would show the public “what these cops are up against.”
Mayor Eric Adams announces new 5G LinkNYC service in the Bronx on Sunday.New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he wants to “expeditiously” release body camera footage from police incidents, including a pair ofthat left two men dead at the hands of police Saturday evening, so people “can see what these cops are up against.”
He added, "Whatever the rules are, I'm going to look over the rules and see what we can do to get [body camera footage] in the hands of people in a more expeditious fashion." In St. Albans, Queens, the NYPD said a man called 911 from a 116th Avenue home around 6 p.m. and made violent threats against police officers and elected officials, including Gov. Kathy Hochul. When police arrived and a verbal altercation ensued, the man brandished a gun and exchanged fire with officers that left him dead, according to NYPD Chief of Patrol Jeffrey Maddrey.
In the case of the Queens incident, the man who called 911 had “police contact in the past,” according to Maddrey. The man also had “a call for a mental health issue in the past.”
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