Escaped suspect Gerald Brooks, 39, of E. 81st Street in Brooklyn.
[From article]
A Brooklyn suspect with 56 prior arrests escaped from police custody Tuesday — with his hands still cuffed behind his back — enraging the city’s top cop.
It was at least the fifth time since June that a suspect has escaped NYPD custody.
“Once again, an embarrassment for the department and something that we will deal with very severely as far as the officers involved,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton fumed to reporters.
“[The officers] are an embarrassment to themselves in terms of their professional skills, or lack of them, in once again letting a prisoner escape in this city, and they will be dealt with very appropriately for that incompetence.
“I’m getting tired of it, as is the chief,” Bratton said.
“I’m very concerned when somebody with a pair of handcuffs, handcuffed behind them, can flee from three of my officers and they can’t catch him. I’m sorry — there’s something wrong there when that’s happening, repeatedly, over and over again.”
http://nypost.com/2015/10/20/suspect-slips-out-of-police-custody-in-latest-nypd-escape/
Suspect with 54 prior arrests escapes NYPD custody in cuffs
By Tina Moore, Dana Sauchelli and Yoav Gonen
New York Post
October 20, 2015 | 1:53pm
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