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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

” ... when she charged at them with knives.”

That pretty much says it all. “CHARGED at them with KNIVES”.


21 posted on 09/02/2026 9:36:31 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: Kudsman

Yes. , I know in police shootings, people frequently criticized cops and say, why didn’t they shoot someone in the leg to disable them? Rather than taking a shot that killed them. It’s a perennial argument about police allegedly using excessive force.

What these people don’t understand ,is shooting someone in the leg, if the shot is in the right spot, it could cause someone to bleed out and die anyway. From being shot in the leg.


22 posted on 09/02/2026 9:37:09 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Liz

I would shoot her ...


23 posted on 09/02/2026 9:37:13 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: Liz

If only a therapist had been there to ask her about her feelings, this could have been avoided.

extreme sarc//


24 posted on 09/02/2026 9:37:26 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Mr. Lucky

If they tried to shoot the knives out of her hands, the bullets may have ricochet’d and hit the photographer in the background. But there was no guarantee that that would happen so they went for the sure thing. A bird in the hand as the saying goes.


25 posted on 09/02/2026 9:37:48 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Col Frank Slade

lol


26 posted on 09/02/2026 9:38:26 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of Gd; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: ConservativeStatement

“So much for having empathy towards the true victims and their loved-ones and associates.”

It’s a virus that has infected liberals — mostly white female one — recently. The criminal becomes the victim; the victim becomes irrelevant.


27 posted on 09/02/2026 9:38:31 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

They show extreme empathy for aggressors, zero for the victims. That suggests their empathy is fake.


28 posted on 09/02/2026 9:39:44 AM PDT by TTFX
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To: ansel12

“This woman was too large and dangerous to not shoot”

Like an enraged elephant.


29 posted on 09/02/2026 9:39:48 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
The mother... is questioning why cops didn’t just “grab” her daughter rather than fatally shoot her

And on the other hand, I am questioning why every cop in the area didn't empty their magazines into the perps fat body

I guess our two questions cancel out....

30 posted on 09/02/2026 9:40:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Liz

She should have been immediately tased. Out of three officers surrounding her at what looked like sufficient closeness, none did so. Are New York City Police prohibited from carrying tasers?


31 posted on 09/02/2026 9:40:35 AM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union to get paid for loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: MayflowerMadam

That is alot of center mass.


32 posted on 09/02/2026 9:41:45 AM PDT by Kudsman (4728)
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To: ConservativeStatement

They had to shoot her because harpoons are illegal.


33 posted on 09/02/2026 9:42:04 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Kudsman
That is alot of center mass.

Enough to change the path of a missed shot, but not enough to draw it into orbit around her.

Even Indiana Jones would have shot her.

34 posted on 09/02/2026 9:47:47 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If the Islamic Republic government is in power in Iran when the war is over, we will have lost.)
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To: 4Runner

You want to get close enough to taze that???!!

Fatal mistake.


35 posted on 09/02/2026 9:47:50 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: 4Runner

I heard that they did try to tase her. The way she was swinging her arms around looked like an attempt to keep the barbs from hitting her or break the wires.


36 posted on 09/02/2026 9:51:53 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If the Islamic Republic government is in power in Iran when the war is over, we will have lost.)
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To: Liz

Did they use a 600 Nitro Express (elephant round)?


37 posted on 09/02/2026 9:51:53 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Kudsman

The crazy lady’s death is also a shame. If it had to happen, well then, so be it, but it’s really too bad she too could not be saved from the consequences of her own craziness.


38 posted on 09/02/2026 9:52:34 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: ConservativeStatement
REPLY: "Well, it is easier and safer to shoot her. Why didn't you raise her not to lunge at armed police with knives? Sounds like you aren't much of a mother."
39 posted on 09/02/2026 9:52:48 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: Kudsman

There was an incident posted here years ago where a shoplifter, who had been banned from Walmart or Target, showed up again to steal and tried to make a getaway in her car. A policeman tried to stop her and she drove off with him clinging to her door. He killed her and someone here posted a question, asking why he couldn’t shoot a warning shot in the air.

We are here to teach, folks.


40 posted on 09/02/2026 9:54:12 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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