Brian Lair on WNYC, back in April 2019, NYPD officer Brendan Thompson, tased and

fatally shot, 32-year-old dancer and personal trainer Kawaski Trewick in the Bronx.

Some of you know this story, some of you do not.

Trewick had called 911 because he had locked himself out of his apartment.

FDNY, personnel, fire department personnel, responded to the call, led him into his apartment

and left the building.

But moments later, NYPD officers arrived in response to call saying Trewick was being

threatening.

Less than two minutes after they arrived, one of those officers, officer Brendan Thompson,

fired the shots that would ultimately be fatal.

Trewick had been holding a knife.

The NYPD and the Bronx district attorney, Cleared Thompson and his more experienced

partner, Officer Herb Davis, of wrongdoing, but the civilian complaint review board,

the independent civilian agency tasked with investigating allegations of misconduct against

members of the NYPD, had substantiated misconduct against both officers and called for them

to be dismissed from their jobs.

Now, an NYPD administrative judge has recommended no disciplinary charges for the two NYPD officers

involved in Trewick's death.

That judge said that CCRB prosecutors filed the charges too late, even as she acknowledged

factors outside the agency's control that contributed to the delay.

Important among those factors, it took the NYPD a year and a half to provide 23 videos

from body-worn camera footage that investigators had requested way back in June 2019.

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