The NYPD Lieutenant who authorized the deadly use of a stun gun on a 'mentally disturbed person' in Brooklyn last week - has committed suicide.
Lt. Michael Pigot killed himself this morning at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.
Last week, a cop tasered a naked, distraught man standing on a second floor ledge in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Iman Morales, 35, jumped up and down on top of a 10-foot high roll-down gate as he swung a florescent light bulb towards police officers who were trying to grab him on a nearby fire escape.
Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Morales became unhinged after his medication was changed, relatives said, and he clambered onto his fire escape, naked and raving.
The NYPD quickly admitted that Emergency Service police should not have used a Taser on him while he was on a ledge, and two cops were disciplined.
On Wednesday, the Lieutenant had said he was "truly sorry for what happened" to Iman Morales, who was stunned with the Taser as he teetered on a building's ledge. The 50,000-volt shock caused him to topple 10 feet, headfirst, into a sidewalk. He died a shortly after from fatal injuries.
(Dov Gordon - YWN / CBS2 / WNBC)
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