MAN SLAINBY DRUG COP UNARMED OFF-DUTY GUARD IS KILLED IN SCUFFLE

By
Michael T. McPhearson
– March 17, 2000Posted in: Human Rights, News
BY ROBERT INGRASSIA, JOHN MARZULLI and CORKY SIEMASZKO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS With Michele McPhee, Barbara Ross and Roberto Santiago Friday, March 17th 2000, 2:12AM A grand jury is probing the fatal shooting of an unarmed off-duty security guard by an undercover cop during a scuffle outside a midtown cocktail lounge early yesterday, officials said. Patrick Dorismond, 26, a father of two who lived in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, was shot once in the chest by Detective Anthony Vasquez during a buy-and-bust drug operation on Eighth Ave. near 37th St., police said. Vasquez, 29, was placed on desk duty pending the outcome of a grand jury investigation announced by the Manhattan district attorney's office hours after the shooting. Vasquez has not spoken with investigators. Dorismond, 26, worked for the 34th St. Partnership as a uniformed security guard and told his family he hoped one day to become a police officer. For full story read here.
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About Michael T. McPhearson

Currently Michael is executive director of Veterans For Peace and co-chair of the Don't Shoot Coalition, A Saint Louis based coalition that formed in the aftermath of Michael Brown's police killing death in Ferguson, MO. From August 2010 to September 2013, Michael worked as the National Coordinator with United For Peace and Justice. He is a former board member of Veterans For Peace and as well as Executive Director from 2005 to 2010. He works closely with the Newark based People’s Organization for Progress and the Saint Louis centered Organization for Black Struggle. Michel also publishes the Mcphearsonreport.org expressing his views on war and peace, politics, human rights, race and other things. Michael also launched Reclaimthedream.org website as an effort to change the discourse and ignite a new conversation about Dr. Martin Luther King’s message and what it means to live in just and peaceful communities.