Two uniformed New York City police officers were shot dead Saturday afternoon as they sat in a marked police car in Brooklyn, in what investigators believe was an armed gunman's move to avenge the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
The suspect was found dead a short time later in a nearby subway station, The New York Post reports.
The shooter was identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley who wounded his girlfriend in Baltimore before driving to New York and ambushing the officers, according to the New York Daily News. Brinsley, reportedly a gang member, bragged on Instagram just hours before the shooting that he wanted to take out some cops, according to the Daily News.
He apparently shot himself in the head as officers closed in on the crowded subway platform.
"It’s an execution," a law-enforcement source told the Post. The shooting occurred at 3 p.m. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. The man had fired through the front windshield.
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The gunman offing himself afterward is going to feed the tinfoil crowd big time.
ReplyDeleteI am sure, but he certainly laid down his course of action for all to see.
DeleteThe shooter went through 3-4 states depending on his route, took a handgun illegally through Maryland and into New York. You can't transport a handgun legally on a highway in Maryland. Pennsylvania is more gun friendly but going into New York and New York City is a big no no. On top of that his tweets and actions are nuts. The response of the racial hustlers is worse. The list goes on.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the liberals will simply say that we need even stricter gun laws. :)
DeleteThis type of attacks have been predicted.....a number of people have stated that you can only push so far before things get out of hand. We've had Dorner in LA, Frein in PA, the LEO killed in Bardstown KY that's still unsolved, todays shooting....I'm sure there are others....but the pendulum is swinging.....and it's swinging towards unfettered violence against the officially sanctioned purveyors of state sponsored violence. And those in power who hold the leashes of LEO that do violence at their
ReplyDeletebehest don't get it. They will react the ONLY WAY they know how....with more oppression, more violence against citizens, more abuse of power. And thus the situation will spiral further and further into anarchy.
Hitler and Stalin made sure to disarm the citizenry before abusing them. In the US that has not happened....so expect a LOT of violence being offered up to those who
shoot unarmed people, toss grenades into cribs and kick in the doors to the wrong house at O dark thirty.
Whether you approve or disapprove of LEO being targeted is irrelevant. What IS relevant is they ARE being targeted. And it's happening as a direct result of their
very public conduct and documented abuses of authority.
they ARE being targeted.
DeleteThey certainly are, but prodded along by our betters who are responsible for more deaths than the police.
I hate what this will do to these families. My prayers are with them.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I think this is only the beginning. We have been telling LEO for years this was coming. That it was time for them to stand up and show which side they were truly on or they were going to get caught in the middle and many would die.
It's the grunts, the ones on the street that will pay the ultimate price for what their liberal leaders have committed them to. If they don't VERY soon make a stand and abide by their oaths, they may lose the chance along with their lives I fear.
I would not want to be a LEO.
I would not want to be a LEO.
DeleteOnly in a small town.
As long as the press doesn't call this a civil war,then it's not, right?
ReplyDeleteGood point.
DeleteI believe Dan’s comment has perfectly identified the problem. While there are many good, officers but the number of bad is quickly growing and they are smearing the good ones. Sadly, far too many think their badge protects them and makes them above the law. There have been incident after incident of police shootings and brutality with zero consequence. Michael Brown may have been a thug and got what he deserved but that does not matter. There’s been far too many previous incidents that were unjustified. You cannot have 50 times where the police acted illegally with nothing happening and then when people react to a justified incident expect them to think rationally. Michael Brown while logically was justified he was the tipping point people of had enough. I remember back as a kid most police patrolled two to a car. As radios improved and politicians wanted to spend the money elsewhere police patrols became a single officer. A single officer in a squad car is an easy target. And if things really go bad not only is he an easy target but a resource for more guns and ammunition.
ReplyDeleteWhile I do not condone or agree with the targeting of police, I do understand. They have become a legalized gang no different than MS13 or any other gang on the street. They enforce their will with intimidation and violence. If you like I live in a nice middle-class neighborhood the police we interact with are different than the normal street police or those in lower-class neighborhoods. Granted many in those lower-class areas are treated like they deserve to be it still creates a friction.
The police across the nation have spent the last 20 or 25 years developing their current reputation. Can it be changed of course it can but I don’t think it will. I think our government leaders are too enraptured with power to make the change. Even if today the police became friendly Andy of Mayberry, it would take 50+ years to eliminate the current attitudes. Unfortunately, I think the targeting we are seeing is only the beginning. And I also think the police response to it is going to make it worse not better.
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I think you have described the situation well except that this is being promoted by the administration and their commies.
Delete"stay the course" thugs. My encounters with police have been for the most part
ReplyDeletegood. I recall, when I had car problems on the interstate, a cop stopped to help
me. I was standing next to the drivers door and the cop told me to move away
to the other side of the car as people nowadays are crazy and will go out of
their way to try and hit a person. This is what the cops have to contend with,
a society of psychopaths.
Mine have always been so.
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a society of psychopaths.
Agreed.