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Christopher Ridley Police Killing - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 22nd Feb, 2016 - 3:12am
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Christopher Ridley - Police Killing
Death of New York Officer a Mystery
Original Post Date: 1st Feb, 2008 - 2:20pm
Why police officers would kill another police officer off duty? I think there may be drugs or other illegal activities involved? What do you think?
QUOTE Investigators have questioned 76 witnesses, studied videotape and examined preliminary autopsy results _ but may never make sense of an off-duty policeman's killing by other officers. Mount Vernon Officer Christopher Ridley, who chanced upon a violent street fight in White Plains on Friday, was shot and killed by Westchester County police as he tried to subdue a suspect. Several witnesses say he did not obey commands to drop his gun, but no one seems to know why. On Wednesday, White Plains police were still looking for witnesses and awaiting the final autopsy and ballistics reports on the five guns involved in the shooting. Gov. Eliot Spitzer visited privately with Ridley's parents and grandfather at Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, where a funeral is scheduled for Friday. 'This is a tragedy of proportions that makes your blood run cold as a parent, to think what they have gone through,' the governor said afterward. 'We are all feeling for them and praying for them.' At a ceremony where Ridley was posthumously promoted to detective, his cousin, Danielle Scholar, read a statement declaring that the promotion proved 'that Christopher acted properly and above and beyond the call of duty.' The killing occurred at about 5 p.m. Friday, a time when the booming city of 60,000, 22 miles north of New York, transforms into an entertainment and dining center. Ridley, 23, a two-year police veteran who was not in uniform, ran into a government office building, called out for help, then struggled with Anthony Jacobs, a homeless man who had allegedly been beating another man. Police believe a shot rang out at some point, perhaps when Jacobs tried to grab Ridley's 9 mm handgun or when it hit the ground. Four county officers surrounded Ridley and Jacobs… Source 6m
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