Two cops honored after the fatal shooting of a crazed man who was waving a metal chair have been slapped with disciplinary charges in the incident.
Officers Dawn Ortiz and India Archie were each commended as “Cop of the Year” by the Holy Name Society – at a ceremony Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly attended.
Kelly even posed for pictures with the proud cops and Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio.
Now they face a department trial for failing to first use a baton or pepper spray before Ortiz fired the single shot that killed Gilberto Blanco, a 45-year-old emotionally disturbed man.
“I am confident that the police commissioner will immediately resolve this apparent conflict within the department’s original position,” Archie’s lawyer Eric Sanders said.