Posted on 01/28/2005 5:41:03 AM PST by Pharmboy
Rick Dembow January 28, 2005 -- A stunning 28-year-old actress died in her fiancé's arms yesterday after a Lower East Side thug answered her challenge — "What are you going to do, shoot us?" — by firing a single bullet into her chest, cops said. Nicole DuFresne, of Brooklyn, had just left a trendy bar with her fiancé and another couple when they were confronted at about 3:15 a.m. by four muggers — two men and two women — at the corner of Clinton and Rivington streets, police said. One of the thugs, who was carrying a gun, demanded money. DuFresne's fiancé, Jeffrey Sparks, 28, not seeing the mugger had a gun and not taking the request seriously, tried to push past the man.
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Organizations to which she belonged included "Theaters Against War."
Their tagline from their website:
"THAW is an international network of theater artists responding to the United States' ongoing "War on Terror", aggressive and unilateral foreign policies, and escalating attacks on civil liberties in the US and throughout the world."
By putting "war on terror" in quotes supposes that there really is not a war on terror. That the events of 911 should not be addressed unless in some non-aggressive and mulitlateral response that does not limit any one's civil liberties.
In other words, she's a friend of terrorism. Plain and simple. And now, she found out what it means to face down a terrorist. Maybe he's in the form of a 2-cent street thug, but the only difference between him and the guys who flew the planes into buildings was that the guys who flew planes into buildings had planes.
These thugs cannot be "reasoned with." Like it or not, they have to be slapped down hard; it has to be public and ugly. Love them, and, well, just go for a 3:15 a.m stroll in Manhattan and find out for yourself.
I'm saddened that this lovely young lady has been taken from us prematurely. That doesn't prevent me from seeing the irony of a death that she philosophically brought on herself.
See, if guns WERE outlawed in NY city, this piece of human dung would have gladly followed the law and turned in his weapon...right?....right...
That's true. And sorry if my earlier response was flippant. However, keep in mind, this is my home.
I don't know all the areas of Manhattan, but I'm surprised that this doesn't happen more often. I took the train home to Long Island at 3 am early Sunday morning and most everyone was drunk.
. . . and was driven to desperate measures by the lack of a social safety net due to the Bush tax cuts. . .
I think most would agree that the money isn't worth dying over, but saving the life of your girlfriend as well as your own from the criminal punk holding the loaded 9mm is worth killing over. That's the real issue, not the money.
Then my time on earth is up I guess, because then I am going kill and/or be killed. Duty and honor are sometimes irrational.
You gotta take care of your own sweet self there, kiddo. Isn't there some way you could have avoided riding the train at 3am, for heaven's sake?
I have probably stayed in NYC ten times for business....one time I stayed with a college friend. When looking down at the nasty looking dirty snow alley and seeing rats run by, I asked why she was here again.....And she said "Oh, I am right off Columbus Circle, are you crazy?"
And the City that never sleeps is right...I only think I have had one good nights sleep there...during the Valentines Day snowstorm of 96, which stopped everything.
My sister and I missed the train. She was royally pissed too. You haven't lived till you've taken the drunk tank home to Long Island.
...again, NYC is my home. I love it no less than most other people love their homes. It is an arrogant city, which annoys a lot of people, but it is my home.
At least you weren't alone. But who am I to tell you, eh? Country mouse to city mouse...
The ONLY good thing about Seattle is that it is located in a shall-issue state. That way, any of the punks around Pioneer Square would be hesitant to try this sort of thing, as that mild mannered management consultant they see is carrying a Kahr Arms P9...
I feel much safer in Penn Station that I would anywhere else completely unfamiliar to me. There are lots of police around Penn Station, not to mention the guardsmen posted at each entrance.
OK. He was a street thug. He had a gun. He shot her in cold blood.
She, not he, get's the Darwin award.
HE, gets the chair.
There is "STUPID" and there is "Criminal". Nobody is taking sides. But commenting on "STUPID", is what we do.
Yep!
Not just for what she said but also for the causes she championed.
Problem is none of her ilk will learn from this.
In Alaska- no permit needed- just a AK driver's license is all.
First court day came. My coworker took the day off to go to court. The criminal didn't show and the case was postponed. Next court day cam - same thing. Now at two lost days of work. Third court day came and wonder of all wonders the mugger showed up with his attorney. The victim and the detective testified and the mugger was found guilty. He was given a short sentence and immediately released into the custody of his existing parole officer - no jail time at all. NYC justice.
And for those who would carry in NYC, remember you have to carry every day, and the police would LOVE to arrest you and the prosecuting attorneys would LOVE to throw the book at you because of the pathological hatred that most New Yorkers have for anyone who wants to protect himself with a gun (remember Goetz's fate)
Ill-AGEL Im'grunts can't afford to live on the Lower East Side. The only reason there are ANY poor people in Manhattan is that Fiorello La Guardia decided to build housing projects all over the place in the 1930s and 1940s. As a result, on the Lower East Side, you have yuppies paying $1,500 a month for a STUDIO across from Housing Projects filled with the native born "underclass" types.
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