Posted on 08/24/2023 3:07:57 PM PDT by Morgana
A man who was fleeing a drug bust on a scooter in the Bronx, New York City, has died after an undercover police officer threw a cooler at him.
Eric Duprey was attempting to get away when he crashed to the ground just after 5.20pm on Wednesday - and now NYPD Sergeant Erik Duran has been suspended while cops investigate his involvement in the fatal incident.
Sergeant Duran was working undercover on the Bronx Narcotics Division at the time, conducting a buy-and-bust operation on Aqueduct Avenue. According to police, Duprey sold drugs to the plain-clothed cop, who then tried to arrest him.
Duprey, 30, quickly fled the situation, at which point the cop threw a cooler at him - which he had snatched from a bystander who was on the street with his family.
The fatal impact from the cooler - that was filled with soda cans - caused the suspect to lose control of his scooter and strike a parked Jeep.
Father-of-three Duprey fell to the ground, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sergeant Duran was suspended early on Thursday morning.
CCTV footage shows the moment that the cooler hit the man on the Bronx street.
An image obtained by DailyMail.com showed the red cooler with a white handle that was lobbed at Duprey during the drug bust.
The NYPD said in a statement: 'Early today, New York City Police Department Sergeant Erik Duran was suspended from duty without pay following a fatal incident in the Bronx on Wednesday afternoon involving a man attempting to flee from the police on a motorcycle.
'The city’s medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
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5, 4, 3...
Indictment for murder on the cop from Alvin Bragg...
$hit happens. I don’t feel sorry for him. He shouldn’t have fled and Im sure if the LE wanted to kill him intentionally, he would have shot him 20 times.
One less dealer off the streets no charges bonus on next check.
>The fatal impact from the cooler
I’m reasonably certain the cooler didn’t kill him.
Good news story of the day. One less democrat.
I hope he still ticketed the dumb bass turd for running into a parked car!
If there was beer in that cooler, it’s a clear case of alcohol abuse...
“**** happens. I don’t feel sorry for him. He shouldn’t have fled and Im sure if the LE wanted to kill him intentionally, he would have shot him 20 times.”
Yep, People should understand that American law enforcement agencies these days are staffed by egomaniacal, explosively violent, and unpredictable psychopaths who are prone to kill anyone who doesn’t immediately submit to their awesome awesomeness. Not to mention they like to kill the occasional bystanders and random dogs.
Yeppers, it’s best not to move when these crazies show up. If you don’t move they might not kill you.
can’t use your pistol. No rubber bullets. No taser. So you improvise!
TFB
Bidon’ s beer czar is on the case.
Was the dude wearing a helmet? If not he was operating a mother scooter in an unsafe manner.
Yeah, if they would have shot 300 rounds at him.
Well…bye!
Just can’t get all tore up about this, sorry.
Nope, not the cooler, it was the tree that decide to stop him abruptly. In the video you can see where the larger cop pulls the scooter off of him, then he stands up abruptly and does a quick 180 turn. My guess is that his noggin was less intact than it was prior to meeting the tree.
Can the cop tackle him?
"clothes-line" him off the bike?
Block the escape route?
I think the cop will prevail....especially because there's no clear racial element (which shouldn't matter in a legitimate legal assessment)
not if it was lite beer.
So, what’s the problem?
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