Posted on 12/28/2009 9:44:02 AM PST by walford
Two cops patrolling a Brooklyn housing project were nearly shot at by a runaway perp whose mother allegedly encouraged him to open fire. Around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, the two officers patrolling the Marlboro Houses in Gravesend encountered three men drinking in a stairwell. One of the men, Angel Rivera, 25, was wearing a bulletproof vest and bolted when cops tried to question them. As he neared his apartment, he allegedly tried to fire his 9-mm. pistol at the pursuing police. But his gun jammed and its magazine fell out, much to the dismay of his mother Rosa.
As the cops struggled with Rivera, his mother shouted, "Shoot the cop! Shoot the cop!" NYPD sources tell the Daily News. Rivera, who has a lengthy criminal record, was arrested and charged with attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon and unlawful wearing of a bulletproof vest. His mother and his sister Rosangela, 18, were also arrested for obstructing governmental justice. Rosangela and her brother's friends were booked for tampering with physical evidence because they allegedly tossing the gun's magazine into a garbage chute.
Incidentally, the Marlboro Houses were used in The French Connection as the apartment complex where Narcotics Detective Popeye Doyle lived and was nearly shot by a rooftop sniper, and American Gangster was filmed there, too.
“Shoot the Cop!” Hmmmmmm, I wonder who she voted for?
I guess that takes her out of the running for Mother of the year.
Illegal immigrants?
nope, just your average democrat,
>”Shoot the Cop! Shoot the Cop!”, walford wrote:
Typical MSM pc-bs. The correct version was: ‘POP THE 5-O, FOOLS! DROP THOZ PIGS. AIGHT!
forgot ‘sarcaism’
Well, things like this will happen in a “Great Society”, you know; just one of the manifestations of that highly successful, and ever-ongoing “War on Poverty”...
Wearing a bullet-proof vest is a crime?
Not if she is running for demoncratic mother of the year...
But this one waa a new one on me...
unlawful wearing of a bulletproof vest
I think I saw her post on another thread.
Sounds like she’d be right at home here on FR.
Never happen, move a block and change her name, right back on taxpayers tab while breeding.
Thousands like her getting checks from ACORN also.
No doubt holding it limp-wrisetd and sideways "gansta style" a la Brad Pitt, which often insures a FTF. I've read those early 90's movies that glorified handgun mishandling, which every wannabe thug now tires to emulate, have saved many lives. Another splendid example of how lack of training and discipline will leave punks at a disadvantage.
You've got to be kidding me. Now it's illegal to protect yourself by wearing a bullet proof vest? If I lived in a neighborhood like that, I'd very likely wear one on a daily basis.
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