On March 27 of last year, 19-year-old Win Rozario called 911 seeking medical assistance as he struggled with a mental health crisis at the Queens home he shared with his parents and brother. Two police officers arrived shortly after. Body-camera footage from the officers shows them escalating the situation so rapidly that within two minutes of walking in the door, they had shot Rozario to death in front of his younger brother and mother as she begged them not to.
The NYPD promised it would investigate the shooting, but more than a year later, the status of that investigation is unknown, shrouded behind an NYPD wall of silence.
"They treated him like he didn't matter and it's a miracle they didn't also kill my other son and wife who were there," Rozario's father said at a rally to commemorate the killing and call for action last week. "The NYPD is too powerful in this city, they are getting away with murder."
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