During his tenure, he worked with Loretta Lynch as a member of the federal prosecution team in the 1997 trial of former New York City police officer Justin Volpe, who was accused of sodomizing Abner Louima inside a bathroom at the 70th Precinct in Brooklyn.

[2] The watershed police brutality trial, at which Thompson delivered the opening prosecution arguments, resulted in Volpe changing his plea from 'not guilty' to 'guilty'.

[6][7] Thompson also worked with Senator Chuck Schumer, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, other elected officials, and members of the clergy to convince the United States Department of Justice to reopen the investigation into the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.

Osorio outlined the environment which was present at the magazine: employees often watched pornographic movies, hung pictures of females in G-strings, and spoke down to women.

The trial lasted 8 days, with a jury of six men and two women finding Osorio had in fact been terminated in retaliation, and that Scott had defamed her character.

[3] His tenure was particularly noted for his advocacy of minority communities, the decision to no longer prosecute low-level marijuana cases, a crackdown on gun violence, an internal review board that exonerated at least 20 wrongfully convicted defendants, and his "Solomonic" decision not to seek prison time after convicting a rookie police officer of manslaughter for the ricochet shooting of Akai Gurley in a dark stairwell.