NYPD clears Brooklyn officer of using racial slur at vigil for man shot dead by police

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn housing cop was cleared of NYPD disciplinary charges that he used a racial slur when he stated at a vigil for a man fatally shot by police that he “would have shot” the man himself. A Police Department trial judge found Officer Jamarr Burnett not guilty of making the comment overheard by Motique Graves, whose brother Malik Tyquarn Graves, 33, died in a fusillade of police ...

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