Commissioner Keechant Sewell has decided Jeffrey Maddrey should be punished for freeing a retired officer who was arrested for chasing three boys while armed with a gun.
The incident from November 2022 involved a former NYPD officer who reportedly chased down several teenagers after their basketball hit one of the officer’s storefront cameras.
Jeffrey Maddrey, the chief of department, ordered the release of a retired officer who had been arrested after chasing three boys while armed with a gun. Mayor Eric Adams has defended him.
Tuesday, we wrote that Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell should dole out discipline against NYPD Chief of Department Jeff Maddrey for visiting a precinct stationhouse and getting released a former officer who’d been taken into custody on charges of menacing three children with a gun. That was before we saw the full Civilian Complaint Review Board report, which our friends at the online news outlet The City obtained Wednesday.
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