Some cops think they are above the law. He shoots a man and takes off for 19hrs, and later says he was watching the news and realized he may have killed a man. Can anyone else come up with that excuse? 

An off-duty cop who has admitted shooting a Manhattan motorist in what is being investigated as a case of fatal road rage was in a bar with a woman who works for the Queens DA’s Office in the wee hours before the confrontation near the FDR Drive last month.
The disclosure could help explain why undercover Officer Sean Sawyer disappeared for 19 hours after the shooting, since he would have been required to submit to a Breathalyzer test under a new NYPD regulation.

The controversial department rule - crafted in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Sean Bell last November - mandates that any cop who fires his weapon and wounds someone must be tested for sobriety.

According to officials, Sawyer shot and killed Tirado at around 7 a.m. on Oct. 21 following a chase on First Avenue.

The confrontation began with angry words as the two vehicles slowly exited the 116th Street ramp of the FDR Drive, which was closed because of a motorcycle accident.

Sawyer - who had gotten off work at 5 p.m. the previous day - was heading to his home, which is on West 102nd Street, in his yellow Nissan Xterra when he grew irritated trying to inch in front of Tirado’s purple Honda Civic.

Tirado was with two friends heading home to the Lower East Side.

When the traffic cleared, Sawyer, who is black, allegedly threatened to “cap,” or shoot, Tirado and made a racial slur, Tirado’s friends told police.

Tirado then responded he had a Luger revolver and made a hand gesture toward Sawyer, who fired three shots and drove off.

He surfaced 19 hours later, saying he realized he may have shot someone after watching the news.

Source: NYP 

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