Former New York City police officer indicted with tampering a crime scene after he shot a man: Sources

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NEW: Former NYPD police officer indicted for attempting to cover up a crime scene after shooting a man in the face, sources confirm to ABC News.

for attempting to cover up a crime scene after shooting a man in the face, multiple sources confirmed to ABC News.

Ritchard Blake turned himself in to the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office on Friday and is expected to get arraigned on two counts of tampering with physical evidence charges, sources said. Blake, 41, allegedly got into an altercation with Thavone Santana during the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 2, 2018 and fired two shots. One of the bullets burrowed through Santana's face and landed in his neck where it remains, according to a federal civil lawsuit he filed in January.After the shooting, Blake allegedly told 911 he opened fired in self-defense because he was being robbed.

A law enforcement source told ABC News that "all the evidence was presented to the grand jury and they found that the shooting was justified.""Sgt. Blake has a prominent and long history of violence, assaults and was the subject of Internal Affairs investigations of his actions in 2010, 2011 and 2016 and was disciplined for his violations of NYPD Policies."George previously told ABC News his client acted in self-defense and that Santana was the aggressor.

 

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Body cams should be free and legally authorized for all citizens. 'Justice' is meaded out too often at the lowest level.

Disgraceful!!!...

He has forfeited a status of being a police he is now a criminal

There’s dozens of police bodycams on Youtube that i watch to remind me there are more good cops than scumbags like this.

NEW: self investigated and exonerated... Again NoAccountability

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