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New Riker’s Crisis Response Chief Accused in Beating of Teen Detainee Kalief Browder
Loaded on April 27, 2023
by Chuck Sharman
by Chuck Sharman
Old ghosts have come back to haunt the promotion of Vincent Grinnage to head the Emergency Services Unit (ESU) for the New York City Department of Correction (DOC).
It cost the city $3.3 million to settle the lawsuit filed over the suicide of Kalief …
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