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Bruce Blakeman, New York<\/a>‘s Republican candidate for governor, has vowed to pardon a former NYPD sergeant convicted of manslaughter in the death of a fleeing suspect, who he knocked off a scooter with a cooler.<\/p>\n

He made the announcement at a news briefing outside City Hall in New York City Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Sgt. Erik Duran, 38, has been sentenced to three to nine years<\/a> in prison for manslaughter in the 2023 death of a suspected drug dealer named Eric Duprey, 30.<\/p>\n

NYC JUDGE SEEKS TO MAKE EXAMPLE OF OFFICER WHO THREW COOLER AT FLEEING SUSPECT, CAUSING FATAL CRASH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Prosecutors from New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office had requested a five-to 15-year sentence.<\/p>\n

Duprey sold drugs to an undercover officer and fled arrest on a motorized scooter before Duran, who was wearing plainclothes at the time, grabbed a bystander’s cooler and threw it at him.<\/p>\n

It struck Duprey, who lost control of the scooter. He crashed and died.<\/p>\n

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“I took this job to save lives,” Duran told the judge at sentencing last week. “I felt terrible once I saw Eric Duprey crash.”<\/p>\n

The NYPD sergeant is the first<\/a> member of the department to be sent to prison for a duty-related death in decades.<\/p>\n

Duran’s defense had opted for a bench trial, with no jury, under Bronx Judge Guy Mitchell, an appointee under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, in February.<\/p>\n

Mitchell rejected Duran’s argument that the cooler throwing was justified in order to protect other officers from harm by the fleeing suspect and said the sentence would serve as a “general deterrent” for other officers.<\/p>\n

“They had enough to investigate and catch him on a different day,” he said of Duran and other officers at the scene. “The distinction is that the deceased will no longer be seen again by his family.”<\/p>\n

NYPD OFFICER JONATHAN DILLER’S WIDOW WEEPS AS SEA OF BLUE FILLS COURTROOM IN ACCUSED COP KILLER\u2019S MURDER TRIAL<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Vincent Vallelong, the president of the NYPD Sergeant’s Benevolent Association, called the sentence “one of the darkest days in the history of our profession.”<\/p>\n

“It wasn’t only Sgt. Duran, a great cop, who was on trial,” he said after sentencing Thursday. “Every law enforcement officer who makes a split second decision in the performance of their duties to protect the public, was also on trial.”<\/p>\n

The NYPD fired Duran after his conviction, which he is expected to appeal.<\/p>\n

Blakeman, who was commissioner of the New York-New Jersey Port Authority during the 9\/11 terror attacks, is currently the county executive in Nassau County, a suburb just east of New York City. He has received President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race against incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Louis Casiano contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/gubernatorial-candidate-vows-pardon-cop-convicted-manslaughter-death-fleeing-suspect <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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