Cop-cam vid release
THE NYPD is “looking to release” body camera footage of last week’s fatal police-involved shooting in the Bronx, the city’s top cop said Tuesday.
“I think it’s important to release videos whether good, bad, or indifferent,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill told the New York Press Club.
The Sept. 6 death of Miguel Richards, 31, was the city’s first officer-involved fatal shooting recorded by body cameras since the NYPD started equipping cops with the technology as part of a pilot program in April. Cops say Richards aimed a toy gun at police in his Edenwald apartment and police fired 16 shots at him.