NYPD sergeant slapped with manslaughter charge after hurling water cooler at fleeing drug suspect, allegedly killing him

NY Post ^ | 01/23/2024 | Amanda Woods , Desheania Andrews and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

[ChicagoConservative27]

An NYPD sergeant was charged Tuesday with second-degree manslaughter in the August death of a scooter-riding drug suspect who crashed after the cop threw a cooler at him.

Sgt. Erik Duran, 36, pleaded not guilty to that charge — which carries a potential maximum sentence of 25 years in prison — as well as assault in the first and second degrees and criminally negligent homicide for the death of Eric Duprey, 30, on Aug. 23, 2023, in The Bronx.

Duran was conducting a buy-and-bust operation on Aqueduct Avenue near West 190th Street around 5 p.m. in Kingsbridge Heights when Duprey took off on a motorized scooter, said New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office, which is handling the prosecution.

[unlearner]

The officer would have been negligent if he did not stop the drug dealer who was putting others’ lives in danger at the time.

The DA should never have brought charges. It is clear that our government is infiltrated by those who are doing everything in their power to take down America.

Ironically, the drug dealer who died previously threw a 2-liter soda bottle through someone’s car window, according to his criminal records. (He was arrested but apparently not convicted for this.)

Those who live by throwing liquid containers at people die by liquid containers being thrown.

[MeganC]

My standard for things like this is what if it were a mere civilian bystander who was assisting the police by throwing a cooler at the suspect and causing the suspect’s death?

Would the cops on scene immediately arrest and charge the bystander?

If “yes” then the cop needs to be charged too.

[octex]

I’ve gotta ask...

How in Hell did a cop, outside on the sidewalk, pick up a water cooler and hurl it at someone?

How did the office water cooler get down there?