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If there is one place a convicted cop killer should not be, it’s on a police reform advisory panel. And yet, that’s exactly where we find Richard Rivera, the man who fatally shot NYPD police officer Robert Walsh execution style in 1981.
Rivera is currently serving on an advisory group panel for Ithaca and Tompkins County, the “Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative,” which was formed after Gov. Andrew Cuomo tasked municipalities with turning in police reform plans by April 1, a move that came in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Rivera was 16 years old when he and four other gun-toting teens donned masks and strolled into the BVD Bar and Grill in Maspeth just after midnight Jan. 12, 1981, looking to rob the joint.
(WBNG) According to a
report by the New York Post, a man who killed a New York City Police Department officer in 1981 serves on a police reform panel in Ithaca.
According to the Post, now 56-year-old Richard Rivera was 16-years-old when he shot and killed Officer Robert Walsh at a bar in Queens. Walsh was off-duty at the time. Rivera and four other teens entered to rob the bar. Police stated Walsh identified himself as an officer and reached for his gun when Rivera shot Walsh in the shoulder, wounding him, and then in the head.
Walsh served 12 years with the police department.
Context
After his prison release in July 2019, Rivera started working for nonprofits that aim to eliminate economic and racial disparities in Tompkins County s criminal justice system and volunteered to help homeless residents stay healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. To brainstorm ideas to reform local policing in 2021, local officials picked roughly 40 people including Rivera to help them gather information from historically marginalized groups.
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On March 29, 2021, The New York Post published an article that claimed local officials in upstate New York were attempting to follow an executive order by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reform policing in light of George Floyd‘s death by recruiting a “cop-killer” to work on their behalf.
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