NAACP LOSS ON ERIC DA
source. “And if you want to go to the press, that’s also fine.”
That’s when Mullins walked out.
“I just think that it was disingenuous for him to make a statement and ask us to sit through it without rebuttal,” Mullins said later.
O’Neill described the meeting as “very productive.”
“I started off the meeting speaking, and at some point while I was speaking, Sgt. Mullins did leave,” O’Neill said. “He didn’t tell me why."
Mullins and other union bigs talked about the case during the cordial breakfast meeting with O’Neill on Friday. Mullins stayed for the whole meeting then. Patrick Lynch, head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association — the city’s largest police union — did not attend Tuesday’s breakfast. “It was an hour and a half of open dialogue,” said Louis Turco, head of the Lieutenants Benevolent Association. Other topics were on the table Tuesday, including the use-offorce rules, consent-tosearch guidelines and the debate over the release of police disciplinary records.
An NYPD source claimed Mullins showed up so he could make a stink by leaving.
Danner was killed after a neighbor said she was behaving “in an irrational manner” in her Castle Hill building.
Barry was among the officers who found her in a bedroom brandishing a pair of scissors. Barry got her to drop the scissors, but she grabbed a wooden bat and lunged at him before he shot her twice. He was armed with a Taser, but chose to use his firearm.
The Bronx district attorney is investigating the shooting. A STATE appeals court shot down a bid to hold former Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan accountable for a grand jury's decision not to indict the cop responsible for Eric Garner’s death. The Staten Island branch of the NAACP filed suit to force a state grievance committee to probe Donovan's handling of the case, arguing DAs have a conflict of interest when it comes to investigating police, because they usually work together. The state Appellate Division noted that “other remedies are available to hold prosecutors accountable . . . including the electoral process.” Officer Daniel Pantaleo was caught on video in 2014 placing Garner in a chokehold. The feds are still investigating. Donovan left the DA’s office for Congress last year.