Liam Quigley

City DOT has not fixed the intersection of Rockaway and Farmers boulevards in Springfield Gardens, where two days before Thanksgiving 2013, Erik Johnson stepped off a bus just before sunrise and was hit before he could even get halfway through the nine-lane intersection.“The impact was so hard that he flew. And he flew out of his pants, apparently,” said his sister Ericka Johnson. The driver who hit Johnson was not charged. Police accounts blamed the 24-year-old for his death, with a police spokesman saying that Johnson may have stepped into the path of the Subaru as he crossed Rockaway Boulevard from the north along the west side of Farmers. A police source told Streetsblog at the time that there was no indication Johnson was in a crosswalk — of course leaving out the detail that there was no crosswalk for him to use. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/11/22/a-man-was-run-down-and-killed-5-years-ago-on-rockaway-blvd-nothing-has-been-done-to-prevent-another-death/

An analysis by The Intercept, using data from the Fatal Encounters project, found that plainclothes cops play a role in such killings disproportionate to their relatively small numbers among the NYPD’s ranks. Plainclothes police have been involved in nearly a third of all fatal shooting incidents recorded since 2000, according to The Intercept study. By Liam Quigley and George Joseph. https://theintercept.com/2018/05/09/saheed-vassell-nypd-plain-clothes/

An analysis by The Intercept, using data from the Fatal Encounters project, found that plainclothes cops play a role in such killings disproportionate to their relatively small numbers among the NYPD’s ranks. Plainclothes police have been involved in nearly a third of all fatal shooting incidents recorded since 2000, according to The Intercept study. By Liam Quigley and George Joseph. https://theintercept.com/2018/05/09/saheed-vassell-nypd-plain-clothes/