‘A killer cop lives here’: Brooklyn arrests raise questions about limits of free speech

The fliers said “A killer cop lives here.”

Brooklyn prosecutors say two protesters posted the fliers in front of the Brooklyn apartment building of an NYPD officer and around his street and at a nearby subway station.

The fliers accuse the officer of the 2021 killing of Eudes Pierre in Crown Heights. According to city and state investigations, two police officers shot and killed Pierre after he charged at one of them with a knife. The state attorney general’s office found that criminal charges should not be brought against the officers involved. A police oversight agency found the officers’ actions to be within NYPD guidelines…

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