A NYPD sergeant from Putnam County is now on trial, accused of killing a man by throwing a cooler at him.<\/p>\n
Mahopac\u2019s Erik Duran appeared in Bronx Supreme Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors there say he was undercover during a drug arrest in 2023 when he targeted the wrong man.That man took off from the scene on a moped.<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, Duran then threw a heavy cooler at the suspect\u2019s head, killing him.<\/p>\n
Black Lives Matter of Greater New York co-founder Chivona Newsome says people are calling for justice.<\/p>\n
“This isn’t about a trial. This is about the truth. This is about an officer who had 17 allegations of misconduct. This is about an officer who should not have been on the streets.”<\/p>\n
The defense argues Duran only had two-and-a-half seconds to make a life-or-death decision and called the man a deadly threat.<\/p>\n
If convicted of the top charge of second-degree manslaughter, Duran could face up to 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NYPD sergeant from Putnam County is now on trial, accused of killing a man by throwing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,9,24,63,28220,129,131,130,750],"class_list":{"0":"post-121619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-putnam-county","14":"tag-the-bronx","15":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","16":"tag-the-bronx-news","17":"tag-trial"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}