“Earlier this morning, an Albany police officer was shot after approaching a vehicle he had previously attempted to stop for traffic violations,” Sheehan said in a statement released around 5 a.m. “Chief Hawkins has reviewed the body camera footage and based on the chief’s review it is clear this officer was ambushed in an act of depraved gun violence.”
Sheehan is by accounts an inept Leftist Marxist Democrat.
It’s so bad in Albany that the county sheriff (also a Dem, but more of a centrist) intervened last year and began patrolling the city because the APD chief and mayor were (and remain) comically inept.