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FILE - In this May 31, 2017 file photo, New York City Police Sgt. Hugh Barry, center, is arraigned at Bronx Supreme Court in the death of Deborah Danner. Barry on trial for fatally shooting Danner, a mentally ill woman in her Bronx apartment, said Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, he tried to grab the woman before she had a chance to pick up a pair of scissors, the New York Times reported. (Gregg Vigliotti/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

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FILE- In this Sept. 2, 2015 file photo, New York City Police Officer Lamont Edwards talks to actor Nathan Purdee during a Crisis Intervention Training class at the New York Police Department Police Academy, in New York. Even before an encounter between a schizophrenic woman and a police sergeant in October 2016 left her dead and him now facing a murder charge, NYPD officials realized the need for officers to better understand how to manage mental illness, and created a specialized training. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

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The Latest: NY mayor: Expect fair, thorough case vs. officer

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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2016 file photo, State Senator Ruben Diaz, center, members of the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization, and politicians gather outside the apartment building where Deborah Danner lived in the Bronx borough of New York. Sgt. Hugh Barry with the New York Police Department shot Danner in her apartment after she came at him with a baseball bat. The sergeant has been indicted by a New York City grand jury on a murder charge in the shooting of the 66-year-old mentally ill woman, a death Mayor Bill de Blasio called tragic and unacceptable.(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

NY officer pleads not guilty in mentally ill woman’s death

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The apartment building in New York where authorities say a New York City police officer shot and killed an emotionally disturbed, woman wielding scissors and a baseball bat is shown on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. Investigators want to know why the officer didn't use his stun gun instead. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Woman wrote about police killings before officer killed her

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The apartment building in New York where authorities say a New York City police officer shot and killed an emotionally disturbed, woman wielding scissors and a baseball bat is shown on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. Investigators want to know why the officer didn't use his stun gun instead. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NYC mayor: Police shooting of woman, 66, was ‘unacceptable’

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