If you haven't already done so, please watch the troubling video depicting the final moments of Kawaski Trawick's life. It is every bit as sad and outrageous as the better-known footage of Kalief Browder being brutalized on Rikers Island in 2012; Eric Garner being choked to death in Staten Island in 2014; or the murder of George Floyd last year. The point-blank fatal shooting of Trawick by the NYPD in April 2019 for no good reason — and the outrageous ensuing coverup by the department exposed by the Pro Publica news organization — illustrates the folly and failure of the current administration when it comes to reforming law enforcement. Trawick, who was known to have mental health and addiction problems, was a resident of Hill House, a supportive housing complex in the Bronx run by Services for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization. On some occasions, Trawick reportedly acted out, banging on his neighbors' doors while waving a stick and carrying a bread knife — one of multiple instances in which cops showed up at Hill House to calm things down without injury or incident. But in April 2019, Trawick was shouting and banging on doors, and in the course of it accidentally locked himself out of his apartment. He got back in by calling 911 and falsely reporting a fire. A crew of FDNY officers responded and opened the door for him. Shortly after they left, police officers Herbert Davis and Brendan Thompson, drawn by a 911 call about Trawick, showed up and knocked on the young man's door — and Thompson shot him to death less than two minutes later without ever explaining why they were there. Video from Thompson's body-worn camera and from surveillance cameras inside Hill House — footage the NYPD refused to show Trawick's family for a year — shows Thompson instantly resorting to using force despite the absence of a threat, drawing his gun and repeatedly yelling "drop the knife!" like a robot, as Trawick — cooking and holding his bread knife — keeps asking why the cops are there, and getting no answer. Both cops had been through de-escalation training. Davis, the older and more experienced cop, attempted to apply some of it, to no avail. "We ain't gonna tase him," Davis tells his partner. Thompson uses the Taser anyway. "No, no — don't, don't, don't, don't, don't," says Davis, pushing Thompson's drawn gun downward.