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COP TO IT: Councilman Chaim Deutsch, at podium, rallied with fellow legislators outside City Hall to demand the mayor issue raises to authorities
with the New York Police Department. Councilman Chaim Deutsch
POL PLAYS GOOD COP
Death grip
Mayor must give raises to police offi cers, local legislator demands
Flatlands man gets
20 years in prison
for strangling wife
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BY AIDAN GRAHAM
The city must give a raise to
New York’s Finest, according
to a Sheepshead Bay councilman,
who claimed local cops
struggle to make ends meet
with the wages they earn
protecting and serving the
Big Apple.
“Mayor DeBlasio should
pay them a salary that means
police offi cers don’t have to
worry each day about how
to pay their rent, buy essentials,
care for their elderly,
and put food on the table,”
said Councilman Chaim
Deutsch at a March 19 rally
outside City Hall.
Deutsch that day delivered
a letter to Hizzoner demanding
salary bumps for
Police Department offi cers,
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BY AIDAN GRAHAM
A Flatlands man will spend
20 years behind bars for
strangling his wife to death,
according to Brooklyn’s top
prosecutor.
“This defendant attacked
and killed the woman he
vowed to love and protect,”
said District Attorney Eric
Gonzalez. “He has now been
held accountable for his
actions.”
Supreme Court Justice
Jill Konviser on March 22
sentenced 57-year-old Loiseau
Desmoulins to two decades
behind bars and fi ve years’
post-release supervision,
following his guilty plea to
fi rst-degree manslaughter in
January.
Desmoulins strangled his
64-year-old wife during an
argument in their Avenue J
home on Sept. 4, 2017, according
to prosecutors, who said
the defendant and his late
wife Marie Loiseau tied the
knot a year prior to the deadly
attack.
Desmoulins, whose fi rst
name is the same as his wife’s
last name, confessed his crime
to his landlord the morning
after the incident, according
to prosecutors. The landlord
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