Bronx prosecutors declined to bring criminal charges against the two officers involved in Kawaski Trawick’s death, leaving the police oversight agency as his family’s last hope for accountability.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.The parents of a man killed by police during a mental health crisis in 2019 are preparing for one last chance to hold the officers accountable for taking their son’s life.
Police were dispatched to Trawick’s apartment in response to complaints that he was harassing his neighbors and the superintendent after losing his keys, according to a criminal review of the incident. When officers came to his door, footage released by the city following a lawsuit shows he was holding a stick and a serrated knife. Police repeatedly ordered Trawick to drop the knife. Trawick repeatedly asked them why they were in his home.
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