NYPD Trainers Who Drank with Drunk Cop Have Been Added to Shooting Lawsuit
HEZI ARIS 4:30PM • SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Note: Felice Second Amended Complaint Attached Herein
NEW YORK, NY — September 28, 2016 — Two NYPD detectives who conducted police training in high intensity traffic stops, and then drank for several hours at a local bar with their police trainees, have been added to federal lawsuits brought by Joseph Felice and Robert Borrelli, two unsuspecting businessmen driving home from playing hockey on April 29, 2014, who were shot at fourteen times by drunk NYPD Police Officer Brendan Cronin. Felice, who was sitting in the passenger seat of Borrelli’s car was struck six times and gravely wounded after the car stopped at a red light in Pelham, NY, when Cronin emerged from the shadows, retrieved his NYPD service weapon from the back seat of his parked car and opened fire on the two men.
According to Attorney Debra S. Cohen, of the law firm Newman Ferrara LLP, “The fact that NYPD personnel responsible for training police officers are encouraging and condoning them to get behind the wheel of their car, in possession of their service weapons, while drunk is a chilling indication of how profound the problem of unchecked alcohol abuse within the NYPD actually is.” Cohen also notes that “So far in this case we have seen no evidence that the NYPD has seriously investigated how widespread the problem of alcohol abuse is among its members, both generally and, in particular, at the