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Colleagues, family pay tribute to Pigott in Islip
bart.jones@newsday.comThe rows of police officers stretched 300 yards along Main Street in Islip yesterday, and five officers deep. As they saluted the coffin of Lt. Michael Pigott, a New York City Police Department helicopter flew low overhead in a final tribute to the...Tags: Islip, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Police, Sayville, Raymond W. Kelly
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Therapy now the norm for cops in traumatic situations
michael.amon@newsday.com; rocco.parascandola@newsday.comAfter a drunken driver plowed into a limousine on the Meadowbrook Parkway in 2005, killing the limo driver and decapitating a 7-year-old girl, emergency workers at the scene were gathered together. The purpose: to talk about what they had just seen. Once...Tags: Police Investigations, Suicide, Police, Law Enforcement, Health Treatments
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Funeral for NYPD `stun gun' officer
Hundreds of fellow police officers and firefighters have gathered on Long Island to remember the NYPD lieutenant who committed suicide after a stun-gun incident that killed an emotionally disturbed man. Before Monday's funeral for Lt. Michael Pigott...Tags: Islip, Long Island, Suicide, Weaponry, Fires
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TAKE 5: Name that '70s cop
In "Life on Mars," which premieres Thursday on ABC, New York detective Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) is hit by a car and finds himself mysteriously transported back to 1973. Of course, if this was an actual 1973 cop show, its title would have been "Tyler."...Tags: Raymond Burr, Mike Connors, Life on Mars, Police, New York
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Officer's friend recalls him as 'generous, friendly'
keith.herbert@newsday.comClaire Larkin, of Amityville, grew up with Michael Pigott in Lindenhurst. She recalled him as a neighbor and childhood friend who shared her family's milestones, like birthdays, holidays and graduations. "He was a gentle-hearted person, big heart,...Tags: Raymond W. Kelly, Mental Illness, Islip, Illnesses, Police
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NY judge ponders missing Empire State Bldg video
A New York judge will consider whether a missing videotape should cause him to dismiss charges against a California man who tried to parachute off the Empire State Building. Lawyer Mark Heller claims someone in the Police Department could have stolen...Tags: California, Manhattan (New York City), New York, Empire State Building
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Services set for NYPD Lt. Michael Pigott
joseph.mallia@newsday.comFamily, friends and colleagues of NYPD Lt. Michael Pigott will gather this weekend to mourn his loss. His wake will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the Overton Funeral Home, 172 Main St., Islip. A funeral...Tags: Crimes, Islip, Murder, Death and Dying
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Four city cops with HIV get disability pensions
Four New York City police officers who contracted HIV while on duty have been granted disability pensions. The cases were disclosed as part of a lawsuit filed by a retired female officer who says she too was infected on the job and wants a tax-free...Tags: Interior Policy, Diseases, Wages and Pensions, Retirement, AIDS
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4 NYPD officers with HIV get disability pensions
Four NYPD police officers who contracted the HIV virus while on duty have been granted disability pensions. The cases were disclosed as part of a lawsuit filed by a retired female officer who says she too was infected on the job and wants a tax-free...Tags: Interior Policy, Diseases, Wages and Pensions, Retirement, AIDS
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Few thought cop would face criminal charges
It was written by Parascandola.In the days after Lt. Michael Pigott was identified as the cop who gave the order to use a Taser on Brooklyn psychiatric patient Iman Morales, colleagues and others told the embattled officer there was little chance he would face criminal charges. But...Tags: Crimes, John Jay, Lawyers, Police, Laws
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Cop's suicide shocks colleagues, Taser victim's family
rocco.parascaLt. Michael Pigott turned 46 yesterday, but before the sun rose, he slipped out of his Sayville home, drove to his former command in Brooklyn and fired a single bullet into his head, ending a life tormented since his order to Taser a psychiatric patient...Tags: Police, Greenwich Village, Raymond W. Kelly, Police Investigations, Mental Illness
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Taser victim remembered at funeral
Special to NewsdayIman Morales was remembered Thursday as a man of "forgiveness," who would have pardoned the New York Police Department officer who ordered him shot with a stun gun, relatives said. "My nephew was kind and loved everyone. I know he would have forgiven the...Tags: Police, Greenwich Village, Death and Dying, New York
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