Mayor Adams, NYT go to war over photo of fallen NYPD officer
Mayor Eric Adams and the New York Times have gone to war over claims he lied about carrying a weathered photo of his friend and fallen NYPD comrade in his wallet for decades. that a portrait of Officer Robert Venable that Adams says he has long carried with him isn’t legit — and is instead just a printed-out Google image that was doctored to make it appear old.
Mayor Eric Adams holds up the photo of NYPD Officer Robert Venable that he says he’s carried around in his wallet for decades.Officer Robert Venable, a transit officer, was killed in the line of duty by drug dealers in East New York in 1987.The employees had found an image of the slain cop on Google, printed it off in black and white and then splashed coffee on it to make it look old, the source alleged.
The New York Times claimed in a report that the image Adams has of Veneable was printed out recently and doctored by a staffer to make it look old.Despite the allegations of a doctored photo, the mayor’s spokesman insisted Adams had made a photocopy of Venable’s photo more than 30 years ago after the transit officer was killed in the line of duty by drug dealers in East New York in 1987.
“I still think about Robert,” Adams said at a press conference in January last year. “I keep a picture of Robert in my wallet.”
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