NYPD body camera footage of fatal, police-involved shooting on Bainbridge Avenue in Norwood, The Bronx on Oct. 17, 2019. Video courtesy of the NYPD

The NYPD released body camera footage on Friday, Jan. 24, of a prior fatal, police-involved shooting that took place on Bainbridge Avenue in Norwood in 2019.

 

Allan Feliz of Yonkers was fatally shot on on Oct. 17, 2019, following a traffic stop by two officers and their sergeant, who was the one who pulled the trigger. The officers were members the 52nd Precinct’ Neighborhood Coordination Officer program.

 

Councilman Andrew Cohen, who represents Norwood where the shooting took place, told the Norwood News he has already seen the video on the shooting, and appears convinced that the shooting was justified.

 

“If you look at the moment where the sergeant pulled the trigger, to me it seems irrefutable that at that moment the police officers were in real serious danger,” said Cohen. “In my opinion, there was a failure of tactics here. I think this probably could have been averted. I don’t know what is the constitutionality of asking the driver for his keys. But when they stopped this guy and asked him for his license, registration, and keys he would be alive today because the only weapon he had was his vehicle and you would’ve disarmed him.”

 

Cohen also reviewed footage from multiple cameras, that included the two officers and a building camera. “It’s not perfect. The body cameras fall off of both officers by the end of the incident,” he said.

 

The two officers involved in the shooting have remained on the force but have been reassigned to another precinct. The sergeant remains on active duty, according to the NYPD.

 

A lawsuit has now been filed by Feliz’s family.

 

The release of the body camera by the Police Department comes the same week as the release of body camera footage of another shooting in the 47th Precinct in The Bronx a day before Feliz’s killing.