Brooklyn Gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsley Had Been Arrested 20 Times; Had Troubled Childhood

Christian Post ^ | 12/22/2014 | Anugrah Kumar

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Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who allegedly ambushed and killed two New York police officers before killing himself Saturday, had a "very troubled childhood," had been arrested 20 times for petty crimes and was violent and suicidal, according to police and other sources.

Brinsley, 28, had also spent two years in prison for firing a stolen gun near a public street in Georgia, according to The New York Times.

After shooting his ex-girlfriend at her home outside Baltimore Saturday following an argument, Brinsley boarded a bus to New York, and called the victim's mother to apologize, NBC News quoted New York Chief of Detectives Robert K. Boyce as saying.

The victim's mother promptly alerted Baltimore County police, who then were able to read messages he had posted on his Instagram account threatening the New York Police Department. "I'm putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours … let's take 2 of theirs," read one of the messages.

He also made one reference to burning an American flag, according to The Daily Beast.

Baltimore police alerted the NYPD, which warned its officers, saying, "Please use extreme caution. Threats on police." However, just a minute later, he killed the two officers, Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Ramos, 40, Boyce said.

The gunman also told two bystanders to "watch what I'm going to do" before the shooting.

Boyce added that Brinsley tried to hang himself last year, but his attempt to kill himself was unsuccessful.

"The mother expressed fear of him, and she said she hasn't seen him in one month," Boyce said, adding that she also mentioned that he had a "very troubled childhood."

In custody in Cobb County, Georgia, in 2011, Brinsley marked "yes" to a questionnaire asking if he had ever been admitted to a mental institution or been under the care of a psychiatrist or psychologist, The Wall Street Journal reports.

However, a friend described him as a "God-fearing" man.

"This would've never crossed my mind for him to do something like this," New York Daily News quoted Jay Romero, who spent a month with Brinsley last Christmas, as saying. "It brought tears to my eyes. No human has the right to take any human's life, that's wrong. What he did is a cowardly move. I don't know what he went through, what was on his mind."

The officers were killed at close range as they sat in their squad car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn Saturday afternoon.

The officers "never had an opportunity to draw their weapons" and were "killed with no warning, no provocation," Police Commissioner William Bratton said earlier. "They may have never even seen their assailant, their murderer."

Soon after the shooting, the suspect fled to a nearby subway station, where he was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Demonstrations against the New York Police Department have been taking place since Dec. 3, when a grand jury failed to indict a white police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, who was killed in July while he was being arrested for selling untaxed cigarettes. This came weeks after a Missouri grand jury also decided not to indict white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of a black teen, Michael Brown.

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A woman recites from a Bible while standing over a makeshift memorial during a prayer vigil at the site where two New York Police Department (NYPD) officers were fatally shot in the Brooklyn borough of New York December 21, 2014. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faced the biggest crisis of his time in office on Sunday following the fatal shooting of two police officers, in an attack intended as retribution for recent U.S. police killings of unarmed black men. Police said the daylight Saturday shooting was the work of a 28-year-old black man who traveled from Baltimore that day after shooting and wounding his girlfriend, having warned on social media that he planned to be "putting wings on pigs," using an anti-police slur.

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This is what we get when the courts play catch and release with thugs.

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Ismaaiyl Brinsley

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BRINSLEY AND THE COPS HE MURDERED

[Blennos]

I find the use of the word “troubled” in the title quite troubling. Why can’t we do away with all of these weasel-words and tell the truth? He was an evil thug from a very young age. Is the Christian Post attempting to “understand” the murderer? Are we to feel empathy for this savage?

[Gaffer]

I agree. “Troubling” is not an acceptable substitute for an outright thug whose culture brought him up that way, apparently with eagerness on his part.

A tone like “troubling” (even the mere acceptance of the mother’s statement of it without condemnation) is reprehensible and an encouragement to more “how are whites to blame?” Guilt, guilt, guilt.....and more guilt. This is exactly how we ended up with Obama.

[SamuraiScot]

Whatever this gentleman’s troubles were before committing these crimes, they did not include insufficient food.

[Flycatcher]

However, a friend described him as a "God-fearing" man.

He quoted from the Koran and had images of the Koran on his Facebook pages.

Hey, Mainstream Media: HE WAS A BLACK MUSLIM!

[Arm_Bears]

had been arrested 20 times for petty crimes and was violent and suicidal

So it makes perfect sense to allow him to walk freely among law-abiding citizens.

[spokeshave]

Brinsley, 28, had also spent two years in prison for firing a stolen

and

1)...became a moslim

2)...joined the black brothers army

3)....all of the above.

[hal ogen]

"gentleman"??????????? The idiot was a loser thug murderer. I don't give a rat's a** if his parents didn't give him a twinkie when he wanted one at age 11 (which left him angry and "disturbed""). He was a subhuman degenerate loser who murdered two policemen. Too bad his "disturbance" didn't lead him to wander into an alley in baltimore (in maryland THE Freak state) and shoot him self in the head. Have a Merry Christmas!

[hal ogen]

The dead asshat was a black moozlum terrorist. End of story.

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What interests me is, with New York City’s very strict gun laws AND his criminal record, how he was able to obtain a gun...

[Dr. Ursus]

He was on the EBT diet!

[I want the USA back]

“Troubled Childhood”
belonging to the ROP is prima facie evidence of being mentally troubled.

[SamuraiScot]

Whatever this gentleman’s troubles were before committing these crimes, they did not include insufficient food.

I don't give a rat's a** if his parents didn't give him a twinkie when he wanted one at age 11 . . .

Please read carefully. It was a comment on his well-fed appearance, as well as the legacy of Marxist excuses for the crimes of the starving underclass as something caused by want.

And Merry Christmas to you as well.

[Vaduz]

Three time losers shouldn’t be released ever.

[dfwgator]

That’s why Richard Pryor said, “Thank God for Penitentiaries.”

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Had Troubled Childhood

"It was never easy for me, I was born a poor, Black, child."