Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ken Thompson

DA Ken Thompson: Felony Plea for Driver Who Killed Roshard Charles, 5

By Brad Aaron | Nov 11, 2015 | 10 Comments

A driver who fatally struck a little boy in Crown Heights and left the scene has pled guilty to felony hit-and-run. On March 16, 2014, 5-year-old Roshard Charles was walking with his mother, little brother, and a friend on Empire Boulevard between Nostrand Avenue and Rogers Avenue when a driver aiming for a parking spot backed into him with […]

NYPD and Electeds Idle as NYC’s Hit-and-Run Epidemic Claims Another Life

By Brad Aaron | Sep 10, 2015 | 12 Comments

It was a particularly barbaric crime: A driver fatally struck a person who was crossing the street with a walker, then left the scene. That it was the second such death in a matter of weeks is another reminder that New York City, thanks in part to indifference in Albany, is failing to meaningfully address its ongoing epidemic of deadly hit-and-run […]

DA Ken Thompson: Charges for Punching Driver, No Charges for Killing Child

By Brad Aaron | Sep 2, 2015 | 21 Comments

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson is prosecuting the man accused of punching the driver who killed 8-year-old Jadann Williams in Flatbush, but Thompson filed no charges against the driver. Jadann was playing with a group of kids on E. 22nd Street on the afternoon of August 26 when a man identified by the Daily News as Reginald […]

Will Ken Thompson Charge Driver Who Killed Alejandro Moran-Marin?

By Brad Aaron | Jul 21, 2015 | 5 Comments

Bike dragged by Honda SUV going wrong way down 4th age towards Flatbush @CBSNewYork @MattKozarTV pic.twitter.com/MNGXbYMceP — Meg Baker (@megbakertv) July 13, 2015 No charges have been filed against the driver who killed a cyclist and injured several other people in a multi-vehicle crash in Brooklyn last week, according to the office of District Attorney Ken Thompson. […]

When a Driver Had a Seizure and Killed Two in Manhattan, It Was Murder

By Brad Aaron | Jul 14, 2015 | 21 Comments

One day after a fatal crash at this intersection, drivers – including the NYPD – blatantly run the red. pic.twitter.com/0qTq39gDn2 — Brooklyn Spoke (@BrooklynSpoke) July 14, 2015 The motorist who killed a cyclist and injured several others in Brooklyn yesterday told police he had a seizure after he did not take his medication. If the driver’s […]

No Charges for Driver Who Repeatedly Ran Over Brooklyn Pedestrian

By Brad Aaron | Jun 30, 2015 | 18 Comments

A livery cab driver repeatedly backed over a Brooklyn rabbi Monday afternoon in Crown Heights, killing him, but no charges were filed by NYPD or Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson. Yekutiel Rapp was crossing Empire Boulevard at Balfour Place at around 5:30 p.m. when the driver hit him while reversing out of a parking spot, […]

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