Police Fatally Shoot an Unarmed Driver on the Grand Central Parkway (National Guardsman)

NY Times ^ | October 4, 2012 | J. David Goodman and Wendy Ruderman

[opentalk]

A New York police detective shot and killed an unarmed man, whose hands, a witness said, were on the steering wheel of his Honda, after he had been pulled over early Thursday for cutting off two police trucks on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, the authorities said.

...The shooting, which occurred at 5:15 a.m., was the latest in a series of episodes in which police officers fatally shot or wounded civilians.

..A passenger in Mr. Polanco’s car, Diane Deferrari, said in a phone interview Thursday night that just before pulling the car over, officers appeared irate that Mr. Polanco had cut them off. She said that one of the officers — but not Detective Hamdy — stuck up his middle finger and was screaming obscenities from one of the moving police trucks.

“As soon as we stopped — they were rushing the car,” Ms. Deferrari said. “It was like an army.”

She said a group of officers swarmed the car, yelling for the three people in Mr. Polanco’s car to put their hands up. Mr. Polanco, whose hands were still on the steering wheel, had no time to comply, Ms. Deferrari said. At that instant, a shot rang out, and Mr. Polanco gasped for air, she said.

[Uncle Chip]

<> Reg’lar citizens don’t count as much.<>

unless you’re an Occupy Wall Street protester:

“New York City refuses to defend the cop who pepper-sprayed OWS protesters”

http://rt.com/usa/news/newyork-city-cop-occupy-814/

[Tuanedge]

You must be disappointed, "Uncle Chip"... No police beating women into submission this time.

[arthurus]

Unlike you or me he will face no serious consequences for his actions

In fact, he will get some extra vacation time, or as it is called for the benefit of the proles, suspension with pay.Some time coming the police unions will discover the possibilities of this as a "job action" that works like a "sickout." If the union wants something before the contract is up and a strike would be illegal, a bunch of officers just go shoot citizens in he process of citing malfunctioning taillights or jaywalking. When enough officers are on their "suspensions with pay" the department loses the ability to function and will theoretically have to accede to the union demands.

[muawiyah]

Certainly send them out ON FOOT ~

[muawiyah]

All of that plus they were shooting at a cop and a cop wannabe ~ what’s not to like eh? (/s)

[from occupied ga]

1st degree in NY only counts if a cop gets killed. Reg’lar citizens don’t count as much.

And regular citizens don't count at all if they're killed by a cop