From [HERE] and [HERE] The city police officer who yelled "nigger" during the Nov. 19 standoff that ended with the death of a retired Black corrections officer and former Marine has been suspended without pay and now faces departmental disciplinary charges. Officer Steven Hart was presented with the charges Friday, Public Safety Commissioner David Chong said, and has until July 30 to respond. Chong would not say what the specific charges are, but said if found guilty he faces penalties ranging from a reprimand to dismissal from the police force. 

The shooting occurred in November after police responded to a call from the victim, Kenneth Chamberlain, who suffered from respiratory and heart problems, as he had set off his medical alert device, indicating he needed help. The encounter was recorded by audio and video devices. Transcripts from the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office of audio recordings reveal Officer Steven Hart as the officer who said to Chamberlain, “Stop, we have to talk nigger” before police broke down his door.

Earlier this month the Chamberlain family filed a $21 million federal lawsuit, claiming among other things that cops taunted the 68-year-old Chamberlain for more than an hour before breaking down his apartment door. Police, responding to an accidentally activated medical alarm device, said Chamberlain, who had been drinking, attacked them with a knife and a hatchet and threatened to kill them.

Although Chamberlain insisted that he was OK and did not need help, police demanded that he open his door so they could check on him.