Exclusive | Family of slain NYPD officer fights to keep cop killer locked up again

The family of a slain NYPD officer is fighting to keep the thug convicted of pushing him to his death from a New York City rooftop behind bars, The Post has learned. Repeat offender Eddie Matos, who’s in prison for murdering Midtown South Officer Anthony Dwyer in 1989, is up for his fifth parole hearing in three years, according to the slain officer’s family and the Police Benevolent Association.  Dwyer’s sister, Maureen Brissett, was expecting her brother’s killer’s next hearing to happen in February –- until she got a call last week informing her that a new hearing was scheduled for Nov.6. The Parole Board denied Matos’ bid to get out of jail after an October 2025 appearance, citing Dwyer’s killing “together with your sustained pattern of serious institutional misconduct, including violent and weapons-related infractions” in prison.The decision also cited “multiple convictions in Connecticut for burglary, larceny and theft of a firearm” prior to the burglary and cop killing in Times Square, the records show.Matos, who’s serving 25 years to life at the maximum-security Green Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County, was granted this month’s do-over with the pro bono help of lawyer Isaac Zaur, a partner at the Madison Avenue law firm Clarick Gueron Reisbaum. The new hearing was ordered by the Dutchess County Supreme Court after Zaur argued that the board had “relied on an impermissible mischaracterization” of Matos’ record in prison, according to court paperwork.In appealing for a new hearing, the lawyer argued that Matos hasn’t received any disciplinary reports since 2019 and that his only two tickets since 2013 were for “talking in the hallway,” court paperwork shows.

Zaur didn’t respond to messages seeking comment.“I just feel like, they’re doing this just for him to keep getting more chances and thinking that, my family’s gonna just say, ‘That’s enough,’” Brissett said the day before the heari...