Posted on 12/21/2014 5:50:41 PM PST by Citizen Zed
The gunman who fatally ambushed two police officers in their squad car had a long criminal record, a hatred for police and the government and an apparent history of mental instability that included an attempt to hang himself a year ago, authorities said.
Moments before opening fire, Ismaaiyl Brinsley approached people on the street and asked them to follow him on Instagram, then told them, “Watch what I’m going to do,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said.
Brinsley, 28, had at least 19 arrests in Georgia and Ohio, spent two years in prison for gun possession and had a troubled childhood so violent that his mother was afraid of him, police said. He ranted online about police and the government and expressed “self-despair and anger at himself and where his life was,” Boyce said.
Boyce said Brinsley’s mother believed he had undiagnosed mental problems and may have been on medication at some point, but detectives were still trying to determine if he had a mental illness.
On Saturday afternoon, Brinsley approached a squad car from behind in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant section and fired four shots, killing Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. He then ran into a subway station and committed suicide.
Hours earlier, Brinsley had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend at her home outside Baltimore, then made threatening posts online, including a vow to put “wings on pigs” and references to the Brown and Garner cases.
A union-generated message warned police officers that they should respond to every radio call with two cars – “no matter what the opinion of the patrol supervisor” – and not make arrests “unless absolutely necessary.” The president of the detectives union told members in a letter to work in threes when out on the street, wear bulletproof vests and keep aware of their surroundings.
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They are getting what they asked for. It may not be what they wanted but it is what they asked for.
“a long criminal record”
you wouldn’t guess that looking at his picture.
I wonder what his associations were.
who might have been pushing him further into his mad malconent and suggesting what he might do to get back at “the man”??
This assassin spent two years in prison. He has convictions for grand theft and illegal firearm possession.
The NAACP says that this was caused by not enough gun control in NYC. He violated too many current state and city gun control laws to list them all. But, felons already can’t have or carry guns.
I believe the mental illness part: flat affect in every picture I have seen of him.
Which doesn’t preclude him being a vicious hateful SOB.
All those gun laws worked.
Wait...
They left out “aspiring rapper, starting to get his life back together” yadda, yadda, yadda.
Under pressure from groups like the NAACP, of course.
Cry me a river, you useless malcontents.
Are we sure this is not Bammy’s son?
What’s pathetic is that a record like that is probably so normal for a certain racial/ethnic/socioeconomic cohort that it wouldn’t trigger any “alarm bells” at all.
20 strikes and you’re out?
...had at least 19 arrests in Georgia and Ohio, spent two years in prison for gun possession and had a troubled childhood so violent that his mother was afraid of him... believed he had undiagnosed mental problems and may have been on medication at some point... ran into a subway station and committed suicide. Hours earlier, Brinsley had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend at her home outside Baltimore...
How many times did a judge look at him and feel sorry for him rather than his many victims?
To her credit...the Mother was quite honest about her son, and not looking to deflect blame for his bad actions.
Not a bad idea, but these two cops were shot in the head.
I wonder if it was mental illness or that he was obsessed by anger and resentment?
A mentally deranged person could not have planned this terrorist act and carried it out to such perfection.
No doubt he had a “handler”.
Look in Al Sharpton’s black book.
Well at least no one profiled him.
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