New York City’s police commissioner has declined to fire a police officer who shot and killed a man during a traffic stop, rejecting a recommendation from an administrative judge. The dead man’s family is protesting the decision.
Lt. Jonathan Rivera shot and killed 31-year-old Allan Feliz because he believed Feliz was about to run over another responding officer with his vehicle, Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s written decision said.
Tisch said Rivera, who was a sergeant at the time, made a “fair and realistic assessment of an incredibly fast-moving, dangerous situation” in which he was “required to make a split-second decision when he believed that his fellow officer’s life was at immediate risk.”…