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Mom of crazed Times Square killer questions why cops couldn’t grab her as she lunged at them with knives
New York Post ^ | Sep. 2, 2026 | By Patrick Reilly

Posted on 09/02/2026 9:18:58 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

The mother of the crazed Queens woman who killed a new mom and seriously wounded an elderly dad in a terrifying Times Square stabbing spree is questioning why cops didn’t just “grab” her daughter rather than fatally shoot her when she charged at them with knives.

Pamela Cisneros, 49, stabbed Erin Piacenti, 32, and Tak Kam, 68, Monday afternoon before cell phone video showed her being surrounded by police and threatening to kill them with a large knife in each hand.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: newyork; stabbing; timessquare

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To: ConservativeStatement

We need more mental institutions even the sidewalks will be cleared.

Democrats hit hardest voter lists decline.


101 posted on 09/02/2026 12:01:16 PM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: ansel12

I saw a guard slashed 500 stiches with an exacto knife before he knew what hit him and also an inmate with his throat cut to the bone with a single edged razor blade. the 21-foot rule is for real in knife attacks.


102 posted on 09/02/2026 12:11:59 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: All

And I question why this ‘Mom’ raised such an evil lunatic daughter and unleashed her upon society.

If ‘Mom’ had been a decent parent, then perhaps her daughter wouldn’t go around stabbing random people and threatening to kill people who try to stop the carnage.


103 posted on 09/02/2026 12:16:32 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: bdfromlv

At 21 feet you prefer the killer have a gun aimed at you rather than holding a razor knife?

I don’t.

Your examples of knife wounds in surprise attacks, or any other attack ,do not make them better than a gun, would those surprised victims be better off having a pistol shoved up against their bodies and the magazine emptied into them?


104 posted on 09/02/2026 12:22:46 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12

No one has any requirement or obligation to physically fight someone already going after people with a deadly weapon, you simply just need to shoot them and stop the threat.


105 posted on 09/02/2026 12:44:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hey Pam
I get your grief and I’m sure it will be unfathomable for the rest of your life.

It will always feel like a boulder which, some days you will be able to carry and others will just be to heavy.

The weight will never change.

That said, we should give you an opportunity to show us how it’s done, the next time we run into someone like your daughter.

Sorry for your loss.


106 posted on 09/02/2026 12:46:13 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Secret Agent Man

A cop is at work and can’t, and doesn’t need to fight everyone that you or I might if we were unarmed and a woman was being attacked, but they do need to be willing to do it when it is called for and appropriate, that is why city cops used to be required to be tall, large, male, and armed with a club, they couldn’t just shoot every person that could be perceived as a threat by a weak cowardly person in the wrong line of work, we wouldn’t have stood for it for one thing.


107 posted on 09/02/2026 12:53:04 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: lastchance

You don’t have to shoot center of mass with a target this big. You fire in the general direction, and gravity will cause the bullet trajectory to veer towards the center of mass.


108 posted on 09/02/2026 12:53:56 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: ansel12

the 21-foot rule means you are putting your life in danger if the knives are allowed closer, I prefer holding a social worker in front of me.


109 posted on 09/02/2026 12:55:11 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Or a near miss may put the bullet in orbit around center mass.


110 posted on 09/02/2026 12:56:09 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: bdfromlv

I know what it means and because of the internet it gets posted all the time.

If a bad guy and I get to choose from the knife on the table or the gun on the table, and I get to choose first, then I pick up the gun, if I am to fight unarmed, then I prefer he have a knife instead of a gun, if he is five feet away, then I prefer that he have a knife instead of a gun.

Knives are inferior to guns, if you have to take up mugging unarmed Hell’s Angels walking alone through the alleys, for grocery money, and you get a choice of weapons for your new trade, which do you choose?


111 posted on 09/02/2026 1:17:35 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Secret Agent Man
Was she an illegal alien?

That was not in any of the reports I have read.

112 posted on 09/02/2026 1:30:57 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I just want FReepers to READ THE ARTICLE. And then think 30 secs before pounding keyboard.)
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To: ansel12

Maybe back then people wouldnt have stood for it because society back then was quite different than it is today. But I am talking about this specific case where someone already killed someone, hurt another and isnt stopping, and even back then they would have been a great candidate to be shot.


113 posted on 09/02/2026 1:40:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Is someone criticizing this shooting, did I miss a post on the thread?


114 posted on 09/02/2026 1:44:50 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Liz

Guilty.

Shoot it!


115 posted on 09/02/2026 2:04:54 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: ConservativeStatement

So “Mommy of the Year”, why didn’t you have her put in mental facility before this happened because you knew where she was heading.


116 posted on 09/02/2026 2:07:20 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: ansel12

I kinda thought you were a bit, from your original posts to me. Did I misread somthing? I never sa8d they should always shoot, again under this type of circumstances I have no problem with them or an armed citizen shooting a person doing this. No one should care why at that moment, they just need to be stopped and since they wouldnt they get shot.


117 posted on 09/02/2026 2:13:54 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
I was thinking that if someone had an 8' x 8' tarp two cops could have just thrown it over her and pulled her down. Then get her to a hospital and do a blood draw to figure out whatever pharmaceutical is causing her psychotic break. If none, hold her for trial.
118 posted on 09/02/2026 2:20:18 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Secret Agent Man

See post 10.

Now if you or I had been there we would have had to take her down no matter what, as happens to unarmed guys everyday, at drunken BBQs, in store parking lots, but it isn’t always something that is ideal and doesn’t always pan out for the good guy.

Here is post 10.
“Interestingly, in other countries, including Britain, we do see cops taking them down with knives in their hand.
This woman was too large and dangerous to not shoot if she had the knives in her hand.”


119 posted on 09/02/2026 2:24:45 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

I’m glad she’s dead. She earned it. Otherwise a filthy judge would let her walk free.


120 posted on 09/02/2026 2:26:54 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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