[neverdem]

Where's the Reverend Al Sharpton?

John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times
Police Officer Sean Sawyer, who surrendered on Monday after a shooting in East Harlem, leaving his apartment Tuesday on 102nd Street.
Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
An improvised memorial to Jayson Tirado grows on Avenue D and Ninth Street as friends reflect nearby. Mr. Tirado was fatally shot early Sunday, apparently by an off-duty police officer.

[the invisib1e hand]

feeling safer all the time.

[FoxInSocks]

saying that the officer’s claim of self-defense was enough to free him while a grand jury reviews potential charges

Sure, people get released all the time on their "claims." I'm sure this has never been tried before.

Pretty much everyone in jail "claims" they're innocent.

[neverdem]

I thought only yahoos with concealed carry licenses did the "blood in the streets" scenario.

Spitzer responds to ABC7 gun investigation [Gun Grabbers Gone Wild]

The drive by media didn't get the message from the DNC to lay off stories about guns. Aint you quaking in your boots about .50 caliber black powder muzzleloaders?

FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

If you ain’t cop, you’re little people.

[Cicero]

The DA, Robert M. Morgenthau, is a real heavyweight. I’d be inclined to trust his judgment on that alone.

Usually the question of granting bail is largely a matter of whether the person is likely to vanish if freed.

[SeaHawkFan]

Morgenthau will not get an indictment. He’ll make sure of it; and then claim the decision was made by the grand jury. As I have said before, if a prosecutor wants an indictment, he’ll get it. If he doesn’t want one, he won’t get it.

[MaxMax]

What if this officer happened to be White?
Where are the justice Brothers?

[freema]

Interesting. NYC Cop gets the red carpet.

[spunkets]

“Where there is a claim of self-defense, as there is in this case, there is usually no immediate arrest,” district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau said.

You lying sack of ..!

[lesser_satan]

Similar incident happened in the Coon Rapids, MN (northern Minneapolis suburb) a few months ago, only WAY better outcome.

Concealed-carry permit holder is at a stoplight with his family. Some whacked-out numbnuts in the car next to him pulls gun and starts screaming threats. Concealed-carry permit holder, being a responsible and decent citizen who knows it's his duty to protect his wife and kids, draws and shoots whacked-out-numbnuts (unfortunately he lived). Whacked out numbnuts turns out to be either and off-duty or plainclothes cop, I can't remember which. Good Citizen exonerated, not sure what happened to the cop. He probably went and got a job in another city so he can abuse and try to kill more people.