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Elected officers, advocates and relations of a 37-year-old man who was gunned down years in the past by an off-duty cop urged NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Thursday to let the officer’s disciplinary trial proceed, calling it an essential check of her willingness to carry officers accountable. They did so in particular person exterior police headquarters in decrease Manhattan, in addition to via a letter to Tisch signed by 33 principally progressive workplace holders, together with Comptroller Brad Lander, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens) and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.  NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Trials Rosemarie Maldonado final month beneficial dismissing…

Metropolis Council Member Erik Bottcher Picture courtesy NYC Council / Flickr. Metropolis Council Member Erik Bottcher threw his hat within the ring on Thursday for subsequent yr’s more and more crowded Democratic major to exchange retiring U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, whose twelfth Congressional District covers a lot of central Manhattan from west to east. Bottcher, 46, who has represented west Manhattan neighborhoods together with Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen since 2022, is pitching himself because the “strongest candidate” within the race for taking up what he described as Republican President Donald Trump’s “corruption, chaos, cruelty and incompetence.” He enters a packed…