Supporters of a measure that would end some legal immunity for police officers who injure or kill a citizen during an arrest rallied at the New York State
(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.
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A meeting to hear about possible reforms to policing in Schuyler County has been scheduled for next week.
“The Schuyler County Sheriff’s Office serves the law enforcement needs of all the citizens of the County, and strives to do so in a professional manner, respecting the rights of all our citizens without regard to race, color, nationality, creed, gender or sexual orientation. Department policies and procedures are developed and carried out with that goal in mind, and our Deputy Sheriffs are selected, trained and supervised with that same goal in mind,” the County said in a press release.