The 66-year-old mentally ill woman fatally shot by New York City Police Department Sgt. Hugh Barry didn’t swing a baseball bat, an NYPD officer testified on Monday, contradicting the defense argument that she used “a lethal weapon” against the sergeant. The witness, Officer Camilo Rosario, said that Deborah Danner, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, stood up from her bed in her Bronx apartment and stepped toward several officers while holding the 32-inch bat above her shoulder just before Sgt. Barry shot her in 2016....

Source: Wall Street Journal February 06, 2018 01:30 UTC