PRESS RELEASE: Yonkers Police Officers To Rally Today In Support Of Disabled Officers Slated To Be Fired.
Today, Tuesday, November 17 at 4pm, members of the Yonkers Police Department will be gathering on the steps of Yonkers City Hall to shed light on this shameful behavior. There will be a press conference at 4:30 pm to discuss the following issue.
While Yonkers Police Officers continue to risk their lives in the midst of a surging pandemic and while criminal violence is on the rise in Yonkers, Mayor Mike Spano and the Yonkers Police Department is planning to fire four veteran, decorated Yonkers police officers who were all seriously injured in the line of duty.
In a false claim of fiscal responsibility, the Mayor has decided to abandon his most vulnerable police officers, those seriously injured in the performance of their duties, taking away their health care in the midst of a pandemic and trying to take away their dignity using a seldom used civil service rule. This move is being made despite the City’s attorney advising not to do so.
These are the officers that are slated to be unfairly terminated.
Police Officer Shavon Johnson-Acker, a 13-year veteran of the YPD and mother of two who injured her knee so seriously she suffered through five separate knee surgeries in her fight to return to fully duty as a police officer.
Police Officer John Sylvestri, a 12-year veteran and member of the elite Emergency Services Unit, who after undergoing knee surgery as a result of a line of duty injury, suffered from numerous pulmonary embolisms. Officer Sylvestri nearly lost not only his leg, but his life as well.
Police Officer Kirk Maher, a nearly 14-year veteran of the YPD who was injured so severely in an on duty car accident that he was forced to undergo dangerous spinal surgery.
Police Officer Marcos Mosqueda, a 9-year veteran of the YPD and father of three who suffers from debilitating spinal injuries as a result of an on duty car accident.
Each one of the officers risked their lives protecting the people of Yonkers. Each one of these officers was seriously injured while performing their duties. Each one of these officers did everything they could do to return to duty with the Yonkers Police Department, including suffering through life altering surgeries. Each one of these officers has followed all the rules, have served their City and their police department with honor and integrity and have done nothing wrong.
Now each one of these veteran police officers is slated to be fired by Mayor Mike Spano.
Please join us at City Hall today to voice your displeasure and to demand Mayor Spano to reverse this horrible decision!
Det. Keith Olson
President
Yonkers PBA
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