The following was reported in the Highlands Current by Michael Turton on July 3, 2020.
"Officer was involved in 2012 shooting death in New York City
The Cold Spring Village Board on June 23 accepted the resignation of Officer Scott Morris. He had been hired late last year but agreed to resign after residents protested his role as supervisor at the scene of a police killing of an 18-year-old man in the Bronx in 2012.
Morris was not charged but faced New York Police Department reprimands for “failure to notify police communications” and “failure to supervise members during a police incident.” He resigned from the NYPD in 2017.
The vote was 3-0. Mayor Dave Merandy was absent and Trustee Fran Murphy abstained, saying later that she felt the board had done its due diligence before hiring Morris.
“I didn’t want him to resign; it wasn’t fair to him,” she said. Murphy said Morris, who provided details of the 2012 incident when interviewed by the board, had indicated he would resign if the incident ever became an issue.
https://highlandscurrent.org/2020/07/03/village-board-accepts-resignation/
I also want to include a short quote from Mayor Merandy's opening remarks at the June 9, 2020 Town Hall Meeting which were transcribed by Cassie Traina:
"There have been some nasty posts that have shown up on Facebook, I understand or in some of the emails regarding Mr. Morris. I don't know how much research everyone's done, if they're just cutting and pasting." He went on to say "I think there's a few ways you can deal with things and one of them I think, is not making demands and uh forcing something. It's first getting information and, and you know, and asking, actually, the people who were involved, you know, what was going on and how things were handled. Unfortunately, that's not how this happened. Unfortunately, leaflets are passed out, this is taken as gospel and we run with it. It's kind of a mob mentality as far as I'm concerned type of a way to deal with it."