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freeradicalx t1_iyj9d4c wrote

I remember when Michael Ameri was captain of the 78th precinct and was the one cop in the city who cared about cyclists enough to chew out his reports for parking in that little protected lane behind the Doughnut Plant building, and would always make sure that it was shoveled of snow in the winter.

A few years later he was found in his car on Long Island, dead of an "apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head". Something something the only good cop...

Anyone else remember that?

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Coquill t1_iykqemh wrote

That is alarming. Do you have a link? I frequent that path

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freeradicalx t1_iyksnnv wrote

The Newday article about his death actually made mention of his community-minded street changes in the last few paragraphs: https://www.newsday.com/long-island/michael-ameri-nypd-inspector-found-dead-on-li-cops-say-q90719

You'll find a bunch more articles if you google his name, he had been a degree or two away from a corruption probe several months prior so that's always mentioned as a possible factor, though he himself was not a subject of any investigation. It was all fishy as fuck.

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