Posted on 06/28/2015 8:25:54 PM PDT by Morgana
A veteran New York State Police sergeant was alone and on a routine patrol when he shot and captured convicted murderer David Sweat Sunday afternoon.
At about 3:20 p.m., State Police Sgt. Jay Cook was supervising a perimeter post when he spotted Sweat on a road near Route 30 in the area of Constable, New York, approximately 1.5 miles south of the Canadian border. Authorities believe Sweat was trying to make a final break toward the border, officials said.
Cook ordered him to stop, but Sweat then turned and fled across a field, New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said.
When Cook, who is also a firearms instructor, realized Sweat might get away, he fired two shots.
"He realized Sweat was going to make it to a tree line, and possibly could have disappeared -- and he fired two shots from his service weapon," D'Amico told reporters.
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Two shots and it was a no sweat capture. That’s how you do it.
I would like to think that there is some integrity left in government and that he purposely took this scum Ali e so that he could snitch on the corrupt government employees who aided him.
But... he shot an unarmed suspect! Twice!
LOL! I hate our crooked, greedy media.
The guy was running away, and wasn’t even armed. Why did this cop need to shoot him? Should have shot the shoelaces off his shoes to keep him from running. #whitelivesmatter
The unarmed man was white so the media don’t care.
I wish he had bled out.
ali e = alive. My spell check is demon possessed.
Every policeman who fires his weapon is a hero or a racist, and will either be commended or be fired. (If these prisoners were black the country would be rooting for them and discussing their unfair treatment at the hands of the oppressors, as we do with Guantanamo.)
The stars of state media, the big producers, the talent are homosexuals, and we believe what we are told to believe.
Our system of checks and balances and of representation is gone. We do not like “little guys” or “big guys,” we do not like “independence,” we send our children to the state schools and shrug when they fall to the Devil.
The vision of a cop shooting a guy in the back in a field makes us giddy with pride.
We have only these men, these brave heroes:
the police,
the media,
Government.
Bingo
Exactly! They shot an unarmed white guy in the back..TWICE..now imagine if Sweat were black the media and the left would be outraged, we would have mass riots in the streets..but wrong skin color so its all good
By the way I am THRILLED this scum bag is off the streets, would have been nice if he had been killed but put him in a 3x5 cell for the rest of his life, having to stare at a picture of Michael Moore in a bikini is good enough for me
This entire “Shaw-skank” trainwreck gives another reason not to try Gitmo Terrorists inside the United States. Weren’t they were supposed to be under maximum security?
According to the article he was only 1.5 miles from the Canadian border. I did not think he was that close.
Judging from the press conference, you’d think that Andy Cuomo hisself captured the desperado.
To play devils advocate, supposed it was not Sweat?
Isn’t this the same thing that happened in Charleston, SC about 2 months ago?
unfortuately the two shots didn’t end up in Sweat’s head
this bothers me.
did the cop make a positive ID before opening fire? or was he simply firing at a fleeing citizen who refused to obey his commands and who was not known to have committed any crimes?
because if it’s the latter, there is nothing to celebrate here. in fact, if it’s the latter, it’s kind of chilling.
Cuomo is full of himself.
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