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Parole denied: A Brooklyn man who served more than 40 years in prison for a 1973 cop killing died in the middle of his 14th parole hearing — denying the 74-year-old a final breath of freedom. Salih Abdullah (r. in photo) had served 22 years beyond the minimum of his 25-year-to-life sentence and been denied parole 14 times previously, starting in 1997, when he was 51. Abdullah was the last of four men locked up for a infamous two-day, 1973 Williamsburg sporting goods story robbery-turned-hostage situation that led to the shooting death of NYPD Officer Stephen Gilroy.
Tally-whoa!: City census takers were abruptly fired lastast week after the Trump administration won a Supreme Court ruling allowing thee tally to end early — even though the head count was not yet done, accordingg to one Manhattan worker. The censsus count, which would have continued until Oct. 31 if not for the Supreme Court ruling, is used to determine electoral votes and how many congressional representatives each state receives. The Census Bureau said 99% of all households had been counted at the time of the shutdown, but Sheena Wright, president of United Way of NYC, disputed that. “We are undercounted ... this is 10 years we have to live with this ,data,” she said. said
Toxi ic tirade: A parks supervisor in Staten Island is under fire after accidentally calling oone of his workers aand berating his staff in an expletive-filled rant during which he used a homophobic slur, according to internal complaints.li In an email to union representatives and the city’s labor relations office, worker Kristian Cuzco described supervisor Joseph Morreale as unhinged and aggressive. After complaining to Parks Dept. honchos through their union rep, the Staten Island Chief of Operations said in an email that Morreale would be kept “distant” from workers while the incident was investigated — but the supervisor was at the work site the very next day, workers said. When workers left to avoid running into him, they were docked pay, according to their union.
NYPD news: A dust-up between NYPD’s Chief of Patrol Fausto Pichardo and Mayor de Blasio led to the officer’s abrupt resignation Tuesday, sources told The News. Pichardo and the mayor had butted heads over the NYPD response to George Floyd protests and after tensions reached a boiling point, the chief of patrol put in his retirement papers and could not be talked out of leaving the department. Chief Juanita Holmes, the first Black woman to serve as borough commander who now heads the Office of Collaborative Policing, is his likely replacement, The News has learned.