Accused cop killer tells NYPD: 'I panicked'

By Jonathan Dienst, Shimon Prokupecz and Joe Valiquette, NBCNewYork.com

The man accused of shooting and?killing a veteran NYPD officer?at point-blank range in December said in videotaped statements obtained exclusively by NBC?New York that he pulled the trigger by accident, explaining: "I was so nervous and I panicked."

The videos are the first time the public is hearing from accused gunman Lamont Pride about the shooting. In them,?he also told prosecutors he wants a break on prison time for telling them what he knows.???

?The reason I decided to come forward with everything is I need to help myself out of this situation,? Pride says in the video. ?I?m not gonna get out of it. I know I?m gonna do some type of crime. I?m not trying to do the max.?

Read original Lamont Pride story, watch exclusive videos?on NBCNewYork.com

Pride is accused of shooting 22-year veteran officer Peter Figoski after a drug deal went bad in East New York. His attorney declined to comment about the videotaped statements.

Pride and four others are charged in the robbery-turned-cop-killing. All have pleaded not guilty.

In three separate interviews in the hours after the shooting, Pride tells different versions of events.

First, the recording shows him claiming he was only trying to buy some drugs when other gunmen burst into the basement apartment. But under questioning later, he allegedly admits to bringing the murder weapon into the building to rob the drug den.

?We went over there ? but not everything went according to plan,? he says.

Figoski and other officers had arrived at the apartment building to investigate a 911 call.

Wearing a white jumpsuit because police took his clothing away as evidence, the video shows Pride re-enacting the shooting scene in the 75th precinct stationhouse.

He claims that he tripped, got up, and then as he tried to run by Figoski to get away, he says he accidentally pulled the trigger.

?I look up to clutch my hands to run ? he is coming and I?m going ? so it was like 'Boom.'"

A prosecutor asks,?What do you mean 'Boom?'?

?The gun goes off as I clutch my hands to run ? I?m like this running,? says Pride, 27, as he pumps his arms in front of the camera. ?As I?m running, I?m clutching my hands. I never took my hand off the trigger. That was my mistake. I?was so nervous and I?panicked. I?didn't even think.?

Police dispute that account, saying the shooting was intentional and from point-blank range.

Figoski, of West Babylon, left behind a wife and four daughters.

City left in shock by veteran cop's death
The killing of the veteran officer shocked the city. The Figoski family received an outpouring of support; more than $2 million has been raised to help pay for their education.

The mayor called the killing a ?depraved criminal act.?

In his statements, Pride claims he and the other suspects drove to the East New York building to try to steal cash and drugs.

?'He?s got money, let?s rob him,'? Pride said one associate told him, and he says he replied, "No problem, just tell me what I got to do.'?

In the statement, Pride never appears to offer any remorse for the officer.

A spokesman for Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes declined to comment, as did an NYPD spokesman.

Pride was questioned hours after the shooting. He talks of his years growing up in foster care homes and how he smoked marijuana with friends.

He gives a detailed account of how he ran from the scene after the shooting and was quickly caught by another officer who gave chase.

?I was running scared,? Pride said, as he told how he tried to hide the weapon by throwing it under a parked car.

?I want to come clean,? he says. ?So that way when the time do come I can get some type of leniency.???

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In the UK we drink 2.3kg of tea per person per year (source: Euromonitor), with homeworkers drinking twice that (source: totally made up, but quite possibly true).

The UK Tea Council?s website has, along with loads of brilliant tea facts and stats, a cupometer showing how many cups of tea have been drunk that day. The numbers spin fast. So far today it?s just past 116,400,000 and it?s only, well, tea time.

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Being tea, it all comes beautifully packaged, with each tea in a brown resealable packet.

This month?s selection was: 2nd flush Assam; Monkey Picked Oolong; Keemun Mao Feng; and White Peony.

For my mid-morning brew I went for the Assam. The ?second flush? bit means it was picked in the second harvest so is sweeter and bolder in flavour (it says here).? The accompanying notes also fill in the history and give food pairing suggestions (apparently Assam?s good with Mexican food), plus strict instructions as to the amount of tea to use, optimum water temperature and brewing time. Interestingly, it says that if you want your tea stronger, you should just use more tea, not leave it to mash longer as that just makes it bitter.

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The verdict: I?m really charmed by this idea, and a three-month subscription would make a nice birthday present. It?s really refreshing to try some different brews, though the accompanying notes are so thorough I feel I could sit a Tea GCSE.

To do the teas justice, I should probably have used filtered water. But I didn?t.

The details: Find out more or sign up for a Tea Horse box here? Three months costs ?35; a year costs ?120.

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Greek leaders' austerity meeting postponed again (AP)

ATHENS, Greece ? Greece's prime minister negotiated late into the night Tuesday with the country's international creditors, finalizing a proposal for new austerity measures to avoid a disastrous bankruptcy.

Prime Minister Lucas Papademos kept talking with senior debt inspectors from Greece's bailout creditors ? other countries that use the euro and the International Monetary Fund ? which meant his meeting with Greek party leaders was postponed until Wednesday.

The EU and the IMF insist that Greece must pass further harsh austerity measures ? including private sector salary cuts and civil service firings ? if it is to secure a second euro130 billion ($170 billion) bailout to avoid defaulting next month and possibly leaving the eurozone.

A government official said a draft agreement on the austerity deal would be finalized during Papademos' meeting with the debt inspectors and forwarded to party leaders for scrutiny early Wednesday.

"It took much longer than expected," the official told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the talks.

The impending cutbacks have angered Greek unions, who organized a nationwide strike Tuesday that stopped train and ferry services, closed schools and banks and put state hospitals on short staffing.

Riot police fired tear gas in Athens to repel hundreds of anti-austerity protesters who burned a German flag and tried to break a cordon outside Parliament as they chanted "Nazis out!"

The EU, the IMF and other eurozone nations have been ratcheting up the pressure on Greece, which can't repay a March 20 bond unless it gets new bailout funds.

On Monday, Papademos' government caved in to creditors' demands to cut civil service jobs, announcing that 15,000 positions would be cut this year out of 750,000. The decision breaks a major taboo, as Greek state jobs had been protected for more than a century to prevent political purges.

The European Union and IMF are also pressing Greece to cut the euro750 ($979) monthly minimum wage to help boost the country's competitiveness. This reduction would also affect the private sector ? because private companies base their salaries on the minimum wage ? and would even unemployment benefits.

Greece's coalition party leaders held a first key meeting on the austerity measures then postponed the second round of talks on Monday so Papademos could complete negotiations with EU-IMF debt inspectors.

The leaders have already agreed to cut 2012 spending by 1.5 percent of gross domestic product ? about euro3.3 billion ($4.3 billion); to improve competitiveness by slashing wages and non-wage costs and to re-capitalize banks without nationalizing them. The details remain to be worked out.

Creditors are also demanding spending cuts in defense, health and social security.

Unions and employers' federations alike have deplored the measures as unfair and unnecessary. Some 10,000 people marched Tuesday against the austerity program. A separate demonstration by about 10,000 Communist unionists ended without incident.

"They are committing a crime against the country. They are driving wage-earners into poverty and wiping out pensioners and the unemployed," said Vangelis Moutafis, a senior member of Greece's largest union, the GSEE. "They are selling off state assets for nothing. This cannot continue. This crime must be stopped, right now."

The European Trade Union Confederation described the proposed new cutbacks as "simply not defensible."

"Greek workers and citizens have been pushed to the limit of what is acceptable in terms of restrictions," ETUC General Secretary Bernadette Segol said. "Labor law is being flouted and men and women are being crushed in the process."

Greece has been kept solvent since May 2010 by payments from a euro110 billion ($145 billion) international rescue loan package. When it became clear the money would not be enough, a second bailout was decided last October.

As well as the austerity measures, the second bailout also depends on separate talks with banks and other private bondholders to forgive euro100 billion ($131.6 billion) in Greek debt. The private investors have been locked in negotiations over swapping their current bonds for a cash payment and new bonds worth 50 percent less than the original face value, with longer repayment terms and a lower interest rate.

Papademos met late Tuesday with banker Charles Dallara, who represents private bondholders in the negotiations. He also met Josef Ackermann, CEO of Germany's Deutsche Bank, and Jean Lemierre, senior adviser to the chairman of French bank BNP Paribas.

Greek officials estimate private investors will take losses of about 70 percent on the value of their bonds. Greek lenders and pension funds hold some 34 percent of the country's privately owned debt.

The EU-IMF bailout will also give the Athens euro40 billion ($52 billion) to buy shares in the Greek banks, thereby protecting them from immediate collapse.

However, the bailout has to be secured for the deal with private investors to go ahead, as about euro30 billion ($39 billion) from the bailout will be used to pay investors in the bond swap deal.

A disorderly bankruptcy by Greece would likely lead to its exit from the eurozone, a situation that European officials have previously insisted is impossible because it would hurt other weak countries like Portugal.

But on Tuesday, the EU commissioner Neelie Kroes, in charge of the bloc's digital policies, said Greece's exit wouldn't be a disaster.

"It's always said: if you let one nation go, or ask one to leave, the entire structure will collapse. But that is just not true," she told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.

But EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso quickly stepped in to counter her remarks.

"We are in a very decisive moment regarding the future of Greece and the future of the euro. We want Greece in the euro," he said. "The costs of a default by Greece, the costs of a potential exit of Greece from the euro would be a lot higher than the costs of continuing to support Greece."

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Derek Gatopoulos in Athens, Costas Kantouris in Thessaloniki and Gabriele Steinhauser in Brussels contributed to this report.

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"The Board of Education believes that measures should be taken to conserve energy resources and to reduce the expenditures of funds for energy, while preserving a safe and comfortable environment," the draft energy conservation policy reads. "Therefore, the Board hereby directs the administration, supported by the schools, to assess the consumption of energy and implement reasonable operating procedures to reduce energy consumption in the District."

The AED policy was put in place to "direct the organization, availability and access of automatic external defibrillators" in Avon schools, according to the minutes of the Jan. 17 policy committee meeting.

The policies were drafted by the policy committee, which consists of Katharine Zirolli, Jeff Bernetich and Houston Putnam Lowry, and Superintendent Gary Mala.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the community room at Avon High School, 510 W. Avon Road.

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