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We watched the Bronx bench trial where NYPD sergeant Erik Duran became the first city cop in a decade convicted of killing someone while on duty, with Judge Guy Mitchell finding him guilty of manslaughter for fatally hurling a drink cooler at Eric Duprey during a chaotic sting on Aqueduct Avenue. This rare verdict prompted cheers, tears, and nervous head-shaking—a cooler, it turns out, was no way to keep tempers down.
A jury found Erik Duran, a New York police sergeant, guilty of second-degree manslaughter for fatally hurling a cooler at Eric Duprey in the Bronx—a verdict marking the city’s first police conviction for an on-duty killing in ten years. Such rare accountability may give the department pause, though we doubt officers are now swapping truncheons for soft drinks as their weapon of choice.
A Bronx judge found Sergeant Erik Duran guilty of second-degree manslaughter for pitching a drink-laden cooler at Eric Duprey, causing the latter—who was fleeing on a scooter after a drug bust—to crash fatally. New York’s attorney general called this rare conviction of an on-duty police officer overdue justice, though we suspect that, for both law enforcers and the policed, the chill has now firmly set in.
