New York Daily News
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The distraught family of a sick Brooklyn, N.Y., man who died in police custody demanded answers Wednesday about the botched 911 response that left him waiting four hours for an ambulance.
The down-on-his-luck father of two was arrested a day earlier — July 4 — for allegedly attacking a 48-year-old woman with a knife. Cordero was briefly taken to Woodhull Hospitalwhile in police custody. He was released and returned to the 88th Precinct — where he died hours later waiting for an ambulance.
His family said Cordero had suffered violent seizureslike the ones he had just before he died since he was a teen. “The [cops] put him there and forgot him. That’s my only son,” said grieving dad Felipe Cordero.
Full story: Family of Brooklyn man who died in police custody after waiting for ambulance seeks answers