Republican candidate for governor Bruce Blakeman described a NYPD sergeant’s fatal decision to throw a cooler in the path of a man fleeing a drug bust on a motorized scooter as “thinking out of the box” and “intuitive policing.”
The former sergeant, Erik Duran, was sentenced to three to nine years last week for the second-degree manslaughter of Eric Duprey.
Speaking on the steps of City Hall Monday morning, Blakeman vowed to pardon Duran on his first day in office should he defeat Gov. Kathy Hochul, and called Duran’s conviction an “injustice.”…