assault in the third degree. very disappointed with the verdict. reporter: defense attorney anthony rico speaking for the 38-year-old new york city police officer currently suspended and now facing an uncertain future with the nypd. my hope is that, um, the commissioner looks at the file but most importantly look at the character of a person like joel edouard. reporter: the conviction on a misdemeanor charge means commissioner bratton may decide if officer edouard keeps his job. the man on the other end of the boot here has certain ideas about the officer s continued employment at the nypd. jail time, lose loss of job. whatever is possible. reporter: sentencing is june 10 when police officer edouard will face anything from conditional discharge to a year in jail. at brooklyn criminal court, steve langford, cbs 2 news. while the officer claimed he had stomped on the suspect s hand, the judge suspect had any injuries to the hand. now to campaign 2016. heated p
as the dockery interview played, the family of officer guerra and officer rodriguez herself watched without expression from the courtroom showing no emotion. dockery s attorney jesse young alleges his client s confession was coerced during what he calls a grueling 2 1/2 hour interview with police. the chamber of hell that he endured during that interrogation. reporter: dockery is charged with second-degree murder. the judge says he expects the dies go to the jury by next tuesday. scott rapoport, cbs 2 news. and in his videotaped confession, dockery admitted to setting fires going back to when he was 9 years old including once trying to spell his name out in a bathtub in flames. to some breaking news. a mysterious oil slick in the water north of the george washington bridge to report. joe biermann has been monitoring the situation from chopper 2. route up here to try to figure out where this oil slick is coming from. one of the key indicators is there s a marina up her
not sure why this happened. this stretch of color road is an industrial area as well. police are working to figure out if speed or alcohol was a factor in this accident. again, as you can see back here live crews are working to get those power lines reestablished here. some crash investigators were here earlier this morning collecting evidence as well trying to get more information as to what caused this accident. again, four people have been injured. we are live in clifton, new jersey. cbs 2 news. thank you. also new this morning , the nypd is on the hunt for three teenagers in connection to a hate crime in queens. a 19-year-old was viciously attacked wednesday afternoon in historia by these three suspects who yelled isis, isis and arab during the assault. investigators released the surveillance video. the victim the teens ran off when someone approached the scene. police released the photo of a shooting suspect of a 41-year-old. he was dressed as a construction worker
state and local investigations under way right now. today de blasio insisted he s being investigated for doing something he called commonplace. investigators will agree. after insisting he would not be discussing the investigation if there is an investigation, i can t go into any details. reporter: mayor bill de blasio discussed the investigation on a radio show this morning, claiming what he is doing is no different than what other mayors have done. everything was done very meticulously and carefully with legal documents all along wait and consistent with what so many other people have done. reporter: it was an everybody else does it style defense, an investigation being done by de blasio s team, skirted contribution limits by steering much larger donations through upstate democratic county committees, which then allegedly passed on outsized checks to several democratic candidates, infuriating some republican lawmakers. mayor de blasio, the hudson reporter:
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