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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

If someone had blindsided her from behind and smashed her head very hard on the pavement causing her to release the knives that could have worked. But she had killed one, and severely injured another already and was threatening to kill the cops....she was closing in....sad, but shoot. Too dangerous, threatening, resisted tazing, accomplished murderer. She checked off too many boxes...

Expected outcome from policies which treat mentally diseased brains as normal outliers.


81 posted on 09/02/2026 11:22:33 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Had to.......


82 posted on 09/02/2026 11:22:50 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: Dilbert San Diego
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.

Exactly. A shot at the inner thigh cuts the femoral artery. About 4 minutes to bleed out. It's the alternative target when body armor blocks a center of mass shot.

83 posted on 09/02/2026 11:22:53 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: ConservativeStatement

Should have arrested her for being a bad mother.


84 posted on 09/02/2026 11:23:27 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (B''H We are given a new day today, with new choices. Choose wisely!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

” But she went after the people deranged offspring was attacking.

That is where my sympathy ends.”

Well stated and I agree.


85 posted on 09/02/2026 11:23:34 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: old school

That is only true if you don’t have varicose veins then the legs look like a road map and we all know another word for a major road route is to call it an artery.


86 posted on 09/02/2026 11:24:57 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: 4Runner
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?

Tasers were attempted twice without effect. When she charged them, two officers shot her.

87 posted on 09/02/2026 11:25:22 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: ConservativeStatement

I don’t like stories like this. Is the mother wrong? Of course. But she is a distraught mother. I’m not going to hold her to objective standards when something like this happens. The mother did not kill anyone and she has a microphone shoved under her nose for a quote while trying to process that her daughter killed someone. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Leave the parents alone in situations like this unless they go out of their way to get in the spotlight like Karmelo Anthony’s parents.


88 posted on 09/02/2026 11:26:00 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: frank ballenger

Bad idea. That leads to fewer student debts being repaid and that debt is passed on to taxpayers.


89 posted on 09/02/2026 11:26:48 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Mom of crazed Times Square killer questions why cops couldn’t grab her as she lunged at them with knives”

Because.


90 posted on 09/02/2026 11:30:34 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: ConservativeStatement

The truth is they tried to tazer the pyscho killer, but she was too fat for the tazer to make a good connection.

They should have just started with shooting her.


91 posted on 09/02/2026 11:32:23 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Liz

“What would you do?”

Throw food in front of her and then attack her while she’s down eating it.


92 posted on 09/02/2026 11:33:07 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: ConservativeStatement

She should have,born begging forgiveness from the family of the beautiful woman her daughter murdered.


93 posted on 09/02/2026 11:33:09 AM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: ConservativeStatement

Maybe mom should have grabed her years ago.


94 posted on 09/02/2026 11:40:33 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Kudsman
Could have shot the knives out of her hands. Might have nailed a couple of bystanders but at least the murderous blob of shit would have lived.


95 posted on 09/02/2026 11:43:55 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: Liz

Too bad one cop didn’t have the courage to walk up behind her and shove her to the ground. Don’t think it would have been THAT hard. Particularly since there were a bunch of idiot observers standing near the line of fire.


96 posted on 09/02/2026 11:45:50 AM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: frank ballenger

Thank you. She should’ve kept her blowhole shut.


97 posted on 09/02/2026 11:54:19 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: MeanWestTexan

lol.......that’d do it.


98 posted on 09/02/2026 11:54:20 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

Why? Because cops don’t have enough lives to grab every crazy killer so the killer’s Mom’s can be happy their psycho lived another day at the expense of a dead cop.

This insane killer women should have been institutionalized a along time ago.

Take the money given to the ‘Homeless Industry’ and use it to build places capable of caring for these folks with incentives to get them better and back to a normal life if possible.


99 posted on 09/02/2026 11:54:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (Crime is down in the United States because Trump is sending ALL illegals home. Thanks ICE!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Now we know where her daughters deranged qualities came from.


100 posted on 09/02/2026 11:56:13 AM PDT by Revel
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