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Seedman said he made a deal with Rangel: The NYPD would leave the mosque if Rangel promised to deliver the suspects to a local police station that afternoon.

Rangel agreed.

The NYPD withdrew from the mosque, leaving behind the crime scene, blood and ballistics evidence, and 16 suspects.

Rangel and the suspects never showed up.

Rangel has denied Seedman’s version of the events, but has never offered his own. He did not respond to interview requests.

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April 19, 2015
http://nypost.com/2015/04/19/did-an-fbi-call-accidentally-kill-an-nypd-officer/

Phillip Cardillo, an NYPD officer was killed 43 years ago inside a Harlem mosque. Later this year, it’s expected that the street in front of the new police academy in Queens will be named after Cardillo.

It’s a belated honor for the only unsolved police killing in modern NYPD history.

At 11:41 a.m. April 14, 1972, a call came into the NYPD’s communication division.
“Hello, this is Detective Thomas of the 28th Precinct.”
“Yeah.”
“I have a 10-13 West 116th Street.”
“102 West 116th?”
“Right, that’s on the second floor.”
“Second floor?”
“Right”
“Hold on.”
But the caller hung up.

A 10-13 is every cop’s worst nightmare, a red alert meaning “officer in distress.”

Two policemen, Phillip Cardillo and Vito Navarra, rushed to the address, which was the Muhammed Mosque #7 of the Nation of Islam. Its leader, Louis Farrakhan, had offices on the third floor.

The mosque doors, usually bolted shut and manned by the Nation of Islam’s own paramilitary force, the Fruit of Islam, were unlocked and unguarded.

In the reception area, Cardillo and Navarra encountered six men. Navarra darted up the stairs. Somewhere up on the second floor, he believed, a brother officer was in serious trouble. He was met by 10 men who forced him back down the stairs.

Nine more cops rushed into the reception area. A fight broke out.

All but three of the cops were forced from the mosque and the metal doors were slammed shut and locked. Cardillo and two other cops were left inside.

At 11:45 — less than five minutes after the fake 10-13 call — police radios reported an ominous new development: shots fired.

Officer Phillip Cardillo was mortally wounded.k
As cops forced their way back into the mosque, Cardillo and another officer were found “lying on the floor, both bloodied.” Cardillo had “received a gunshot wound on his right side during this attack, the bullet exiting from his left side.”

Backup had now arrived. Some of the officers pursued a “fleeing group into the basement, where approximately 16 [men] were located, frisked and detained.”
But the suspects “refused to answer questions and refused to identify themselves,” according to the Blue Book.
Meanwhile, outside, “the situation in the street deteriorated ... to the point of potential riot.” A crowd had gathered, bricks were hurled from rooftops, vehicles were overturned and burned.

Farrakhan and Rep. Charlie Rangel appeared, while other Muslims entered the basement and started screaming invectives at the officers and demanded the removal of all police officers from the mosque,.

One high-ranking officer at the scene, Chief of Detectives Albert Seedman, took charge.

Seedman said Rangel told him: “That crowd upstairs, they know you’re down here. If you don’t leave now, I can’t guarantee your personal safety.”

Seedman was unfazed. He called in a request for backup. The NYPD had detailed plans to handle urban unrest. He was stunned by the response: Request denied.

He said a superior officer “made it clear to me that we should abandon the mosque in order to minimize the threat of a possible riot.”

Seedman said he made a deal with Rangel: The NYPD would leave the mosque if Rangel promised to deliver the suspects to a local police station that afternoon.
Rangel agreed.

The NYPD withdrew from the mosque, leaving behind the crime scene, blood and ballistics evidence, and 16 suspects.

Rangel and the suspects never showed up.

Rangel has denied Seedman’s version of the events, but has never offered his own. He did not respond to interview requests.

Detectives faced the near-impossible task of finding Cardillo’s killer. Witnesses were in the wind, and mosque workers had already mopped up the crime scene.
Despite these hurdles, investigators eventually zeroed in a suspect — Nation of Islam member Louis 17X Dupree.

James Harmon was the lead prosecutor in both Dupree trials.
The lack of evidence hindered the prosecution. Dupree’s first trial resulted in a hung jury. In a second trial, Dupree, who now uses the name Khalid Elamin Ali, was acquitted.ges (2)

However, whether or not Dupree pulled the trigger doesn’t answer the bigger question: Who lured Cardillo to his death?
The 10-13 call, it turns out, was a fake.
While there was an actual Detective Thomas working at the 28th Precinct, he didn’t make the call.

Who lured police to the second floor of the mosque, during a time of political and racial unrest, has never been answered.

Most believe it was a Nation of Islam member, trying to incite a confrontation.