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Police: Man Shot Dead By Officers Pulled Air Pistol That Looked Like Gun
CBS New York ^ | Dec. 9, 2012

Posted on 12/09/2012 1:43:21 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -A man with a record of 39 arrests was shot and killed by police detectives in Queens overnight, after pulling what police thought was a gun, but turned out to be a compressed air pistol.

Police on Sunday afternoon continued to investigate the shooting that left the 42-year-old man dead. The suspect killed by police had not been identified as of 3 p.m., pending family notification.

Around 10:45 p.m. Saturday at Gates and Seneca avenues in the Ridgewood section of Queens, two male plainclothes NYPD detectives – ages 48 and 42 and both nine-year department veterans – had just had arrested a 33-year-old suspect in a buy-and-bust drug sting operation.

At that point, they were confronted by the suspect, who pulled what looked like a Glock 19 semi-automatic handgun, police said. It was actually a Walther CP99 compressed air pistol, but was designed to look like a Glock, police said.

The drug dealer who was arrested initially said the suspect with the air pistol “appeared out of nowhere,” and watched as the man pulled the weapon at detectives.

When he did so, the dealer said he told the man with the gun, “They’re cops, you idiot!”

(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...


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To: Free ThinkerNY
39 arrests? Good riddance
21 posted on 12/09/2012 3:01:24 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
39 arrests? Good riddance
22 posted on 12/09/2012 3:01:44 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: paul51

it’s new york city ~ a criminal with 33 arrests is among the preferred people ~


23 posted on 12/09/2012 3:07:36 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
I’ve spent thousands of hours at on the mean streets of a hundred cities in the wee hours of the morning and not been shot. people less wary get shot every day.

What's your point? Even the wary, like LEOs, are shot and killed.

24 posted on 12/09/2012 3:16:40 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
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To: Alaska Wolf
Think wary ~ cops are wandering about in cop suits in marked cars. i could always find one if i ever needed one ~ which was infrequent.

I think better than excellent night vision helps, plus wear clothing that allows you to blend into your surroundings ~ and don't go bothering people with firearms ~ always makes it easier to avoid trouble in the wee hours.

Just as a guideline, never enter or leave a front door of a business establishment or a government building. That just frames you for problems.

25 posted on 12/09/2012 3:20:18 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
I’ve spent thousands of hours at on the mean streets of a hundred cities in the wee hours of the morning and not been shot. people less wary get shot every day.

If someone points a gun at you, will you act or cower ? Do you carry auto, homeowners, health and personal liability insurance?

26 posted on 12/09/2012 3:20:38 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It is a chance the cop could not take.


27 posted on 12/09/2012 3:23:45 PM PST by bmwcyle (Women reelected Obama)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That fake Glock air pistol (probably) helped him pull all kinds of sheeeeet out on the street. But his good luck streak ran out with some cops


28 posted on 12/09/2012 3:23:58 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything)
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To: muawiyah
cops are wandering about in cop suits in marked cars

What's your point? Criminals are not in uniforms or marked cars.

29 posted on 12/09/2012 3:24:32 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
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To: muawiyah
If the facts are as reported, I think this is a good shoot. An added fact, these two police officers fired a total of six shots. In this day and age, it is normal to read that the two cops would have fired 20-30 rounds. Six shots tell me we have two well trained and well disciplined police officers here.

Pointing a BB gun at police officers as they are making an arrest should qualify the dead guy to at least an honorable mention at the Darwin awards ceremony

30 posted on 12/09/2012 3:28:20 PM PST by Tupelo (Hunkered down & loading up)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

The NYC Journalistas are still arguing this one. Some say it was a Ruger designed to look like a Taurus. Others a Colt designed to look like an AK-47. But those in the know say it was definitely just a Beretta designed to look like a Mossberg.


31 posted on 12/09/2012 3:31:22 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Seriously, when a drug dealer tells you to not act stupidly around cops, that is pretty good advice.


32 posted on 12/09/2012 3:36:18 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Pennies and Nickels will NO LONGER be Minted as of 1/1/13 - Tim Geithner, US Treasury Sect)
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To: Right Wing Assault
LOL.

I mean, we have the Internet, people!

Taking 5 seconds to keep from looking ignorant must be one of those old white-man things.

33 posted on 12/09/2012 3:41:05 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Looked like a gun?” An air pistol is a gun! Pull a gun on a police officer - you get shot - end of story.


34 posted on 12/09/2012 3:51:05 PM PST by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
The NYC Journalistas are still arguing this one. Some say it was a Ruger designed to look like a Taurus. Others a Colt designed to look like an AK-47. But those in the know say it was definitely just a Beretta designed to look like a Mossberg.

I have one that's a Daisy designed to look like a Webley.

They would never get that.

35 posted on 12/09/2012 3:52:50 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: elkfersupper
I have one that's a Daisy designed to look like a Webley.

My wife has a Crosman designed to look like a Smith and Wesson. It looks like a Smith and Wesson. At the gun store, my boy saw one in the display case and said they have a BB pistol like ma's. I said nope, that's the real thing.

36 posted on 12/09/2012 3:59:53 PM PST by eartrumpet
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To: Right Wing Assault; Trailerpark Badass
Don't forget, those journalists are generally working with this:


37 posted on 12/09/2012 4:05:50 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

...“appeared out of nowhere,”...

Or it did appear out of nowhere after the police gunned him down. Besides, it’s NYC and no one is allowed to have a weapon of any kind, or a 32 oz sugary drink for that matter.


38 posted on 12/09/2012 4:20:40 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (The law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving and vindictive b!tch!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Looks like a Glock? The CP99 is—and is supposed to be—a dead ringer for the Walther P99C.


39 posted on 12/09/2012 5:10:55 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Trailerpark Badass

And(?) And those pellet guns can kill you just as dead as a firearm, i.e pistol. For the MSM to come out and say he only had a pellet gun is just stupid on their part meaning that the cops shouldn’t have shot him because he “only” had a pellet gun.


40 posted on 12/09/2012 5:41:43 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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