In Quick Response, de Blasio Calls Fatal Shooting of Mentally Ill Woman ‘Unacceptable’
Wallace Cooke Jr., who said he was a cousin of Ms. Danner’s mother, said Ms. Danner learned she had mental illness when she was in college.
“I resent her being dead this morning,” said Mr. Cooke, a former police officer who retired in 1984 after working for 15 years at the 26th Precinct in Harlem. “It’s totally unnecessary to kill a mentally ill person.”
..“Was it absolutely necessary to shoot Ms. Danner once, let alone twice?” he said. “A 66-year-old elderly woman with a medical condition is dead today. We all have to do better.”