The whole thing is a mess. He and the NYPD are both right and both wrong. He had a past that should have disqualified him as a police officer. Doesn't matter what he says, those aren't the traits you want when you are first hiring a new officer going through the screening process. Nothing stops him from applying obviously, NYPD apparently did not do their due diligence or chose to look the other way and not go deep enough in the screening process. I would not be surprised if some type of politics or racial component was warming its way behind the scenes in the hiring process. Very common in big cities He played the system and he won overall. NYPD didn't build a case strong enough to get him out, just based on his past alone shouldn't have been too difficult but then again I must be fair, none of us were there to see what they had and what they could actually present as evidence. No shocker that he took a picture with Hillary Clinton and later I'm sure they distanced themselves as far as they could from their television prop. Tough situation, both right, both wrong, but in the end he retired and won the overall battle. Sad story for the NYPD.
Ps: I do believe in second chances, but attempted murder is something you just can't overlook in someone's past when they want to be a police officer. Not only did he pull the trigger once but twice. He can certainly have a second chance in other fields but not this one. I smell racist politics behind this somewhere along the line that kept him above water all those years.
