The New York Daily News has named Anthony Carelli, a White Plains police officer who stands accused of brutality in an unrelated 2008 case, as the cop who shot and killed 68-year-old black veteran Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. when responding to a false medical alarm at Chamberlain’s home in November 2011.

“Democracy Now!” correspondent Juan Gonzalez was part of the team that broke the story in the Daily News on Wednesday. — ARK

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