NY Hero Cop Accused of Putting Innocent Men Behind Bars
On a brisk winter morning, in one of Brooklyn, New York’s roughest neighborhoods, a rookie cop heard the sound of gunfire and rushed toward it. As he sprinted down the street, he spotted a man in a long leather coat and ordered him to stop. But the man didn’t obey; instead, he turned around, pulled out a gun and fired a dozen shots, hitting the officer in the thigh. Another bullet ripped through a bystander’s shoulder.
A woman told two other police officers that the initial shots had been fired from a nearby apartment building in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. The officers searched the building and found one man shot dead in the third-floor hallway and another in a fourth-floor apartment, a sawed-off shotgun between his legs. Just before the shooting, the woman
