sentenced last week<\/a> to 3 to 9 years\u00a0in prison for the 2023 death of Eric Duprey, 30, who tried to flee on a scooter after police said he was\u00a0selling drugs to an undercover officer in the Bronx.<\/p>\nProsecutors with the state attorney general\u2019s office showed surveillance footage during a bench trial in front of Judge Guy Mitchell that depicted Duprey driving the\u00a0scooter toward a group of people when Duran, who was in plain clothes, picked up a cooler full of drinks\u00a0and threw it at Duprey, striking him.<\/p>\n
Duprey\u00a0died after crashing his scooter into a tree.<\/p>\n
The judge\u00a0rejected Duran’s\u00a0defense that he did not have time to warn other officers and bystanders as Dupree approached on the scooter. The judge found Duran guilty of second-degree manslaughter in February. He was sentenced to prison last week.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 office had sought between 5 and 15 years in prison. Duran\u00a0was taken into custody and his attorney is seeking bail.<\/p>\n
“I never wanted this to happen,” Duran told Duprey’s family before the sentencing.<\/p>\n
The SBA said the union is\u00a0partnering with the National Police Defense Foundation to support Duran\u2019s appeal and to solicit donations.<\/p>\n
“Let\u2019s show the nation that law enforcement officers support one another, especially when our justice system fails them,” the SBA said on its fundraising page.<\/p>\n
Islanders co-owner Jon Ledecky was seen in the New York Post\u00a0posing with the SBA president holding a copy of the\u00a0newspaper with a headline about Duran reading:\u00a0“Jailed For Doing His Job.”<\/p>\n
Long Island civil rights attorney Frederick K. Brewington said Duran\u00a0and other police officers who commit misconduct should be held accountable for their\u00a0actions.<\/p>\n
“This was not a police officer doing his job,” Brewington said. “Using a level of violence and excessive force is well beyond doing his job. This does\u00a0a disservice to all police officers who would not have done that and taken that life.”<\/p>\n
Brewington said\u00a0an Islanders game was not an appropriate venue to promote the legal defense fund. He said the Islanders should do more to address social justice causes in the community.<\/p>\n
“If the Islanders want to engage in the public debate of taking this life, they need to stop playing hockey and run for office,” Brewington said.\u00a0“They\u00a0need to engage in societal concerns that impact all communities.\u00a0They need to address\u00a0what\u2019s going on in society to talk about what creates a set of circumstances that makes our society better.”<\/p>\n
Newsday’s Anthony M. DeStefano contributed to this story.<\/p>\n
With AP<\/p>\n
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\n\tJohn Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During their final game of the season Tuesday night, the Islanders shared\u00a0an NYPD union’s message on their scoreboard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[8015,9,24,6821,63,261,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-198686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-nassau","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-crime","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198686","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=198686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}