The mother of the National Guardsman who was shot and killed Oct. 4 blasted a Queens grand jury’s decision not to indict the cop who killed her son.“I’m very upset,” said Cecilia Reyes, who collapsed in tears at the National Action Network in Harlem on Saturday morning. “I want justice, and I’m going to get justice.”
On Thursday, the grand jury rejected a witness account that veteran NYPD Detective Hassan Hamdy fatally shot 22-year-old Noel Polanco after a car chase on the Grand Central Parkway.
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“My son had no weapon, and yet the officer gets away with this?” cried Reyes.
“What about my son? Where is the justice?”
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who gave the eulogy at Polanco’s funeral, vowed that a civil lawsuit would be filed against the city and the NYPD.
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“I am outraged about the decision, and I question what was presented and what was not presented before the grand jury,” Sharpton told the Daily News on Saturday.
“We intend to pursue this in civil court.
“Clearly, (Polanco) had the right to drive down the Grand Central Parkway,” Sharpton added.
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“No one can deny he was wrongfully killed.”
Polanco was giving his co-worker and her friend a lift to Elmhurst when he twice cut off an NYPD Emergency Service Unit van.
He was killed by a single bullet fired by Hamdy, 39, through an open window.
A cop with 14 years on the force, Hamdy said through his lawyer that he was “extremely relieved” with the grand jury’s decision and extended his condolences to the Polanco family.
But Reyes said it wasn’t enough for her son, who dreamed of becoming a police officer.
Flanked by relatives and wearing a pendant bearing an image of Polanco, she sobbed, “This emptiness that I’m going to feel inside is never going to go away.”
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