Police who shot and killed Kawaski Trawick won’t face discipline, NYPD commissioner says
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Two NYPD officers who confronted — and one of whom shot and killed — a Bronx man who was having a mental health crisis at his apartment in 2019 will not face discipline from the police commissioner, the department announced on Friday. Commissioner Edward Caban determined after a years-long legal process that the officers, Brendan Thompson and Herbert Davis, “acted within the law” and did not commit a crime when they responded to a 911 call from 32-year-old Kawaski Trawick in spring 2019, the NYPD said. Trawick was locked out...
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