Administrative law judge Rosemarie Maldonado late Thursday ordered the closing statements in the trial of Officers Brendan Thompson and Herbert Davis to be submitted in writing, rather than heard orally in the NYPD trial room.
A Bronx cop testified in an NYPD departmental trial that his partner made a mistake when he shot and killed a mentally ill man who charged at them with a bread knife and a wooden stick. Then he took it all back, saying the shooting was to his mind justified.
We obtained the NYPD’s full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers. The records provide a rare window into how exactly a police department examines its own after a shooting.