MATTER OF MEYER v. SAFIR


289 A.D.2d 6 (2001)

733 N.Y.S.2d 599

In the Matter of MICHAEL MEYER, Petitioner, v. HOWARD SAFIR, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided December 4, 2001.


Substantial evidence, including the testimony of disinterested eyewitnesses, supports respondent's findings that petitioner's altercation with a civilian while off duty did not justify petitioner's firing his service gun at the civilian, causing serious injury to the civilian and endangering persons nearby. No basis exists to disturb respondent's credibility findings that petitioner had the advantage in the altercation and was not confronted with a threat to his life at the...

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