Posted on 08/04/2013 6:36:42 PM PDT by South40
Just after 3 a.m. on Sunday, the pop of gunshots cut through the air. Two rookie police officers barely a month out of the Police Academy, and now on foot patrol in the Bronx hurried toward the sound.
They headed east on East 151st Street to find a chase unfolding, one man running down the middle of the street, another following with a handgun. The officers ordered the second figure to drop his gun. Instead, another shot rang out.
One of the officers fired a single shot. The bullet struck the gunman in his lower left jaw, killing him.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Nice shot!
“The suspect, Shaaliver Douse, was believed to be part of a youth gang on East 169th Street that called itself the Nine.”
They are apparently now called “the Eight”.
lol!
LOL brilliant!
OMG, it’s Trayvon’s brother.
those are my lines, Bania!
“Just after 3 a.m. ........ “
What is he doing out after 3 AM?
Where are his parents?
There will be protests or outrage so long as it is a state official and not a free citizen doing the shooting.
The photo, in classic Trayvon Martin fashion, is more than two years old.
Even at 12 years of age, he looks like a rough customer.
Fine—but I still think it’s silly.
Have you never heard of Sean Bell? Or Amadou Diallo? Or Oscar Grant?
I don’t mean to knock the police in any way, but what kind of a Police Department puts two Rookies a month out of school together to walk a beat.
Wouldn’t it make sense to put an older man with them to teach them the ropes?
Good question. When I was 14 I had to be in by 10 pm. That was both a rule in our home and the law. Where was this kid's mother and did she know her son ran the streets at all hours of the night?
Where are his parents?
He lived with his mother and "saw his father often".
I’d be more impressed if it was an aimed shot to the cranium. Then I read that the perp was an alter boi or something. Where is nannie bloomers and the MAIGgots on this one?
That COULD have been Obama’s son! That COULD have been another Trayvon! LOL.
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The officers had been assigned to the Bronx as part of the Police Departments Operation Impact, which matches rookie officers with more seasoned ones to patrol areas with especially high crime rates. City officials have credited the program with helping to reduce crime.
That is a very good question. From the article:
The officers had been assigned to the Bronx as part of the Police Departments Operation Impact, which matches rookie officers with more seasoned ones to patrol areas with especially high crime rates.
Yet both were rookies?
They killed another Trayvon!
Obama’s son!
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