Posted on 05/13/2022 8:17:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the New York Times' May 12 print edition, reporters Chelsia Tose Marcius and Tea Kvenenadze wrote that a Bronx man was shot and killed by police after he wounded a police officer. Their account is a good example of anti-cop propaganda. Here is the lead sentence:
Neighbors said a man fatally shot by the police during an exchange of gunfire Tuesday night [May 9] that also wounded an officer was troubled but seemed unthreatening, living under the supervision of a mental health court after a weapons charge.
The next paragraph provides the police department's account of the incident:
Rameek Smith, 25, was killed in the Bronx after he fired two shots at officers, police officers said. Officers fired back, shooting Mr., Smith in the head. He died early Wednesday at St. Barnabas Hospital, a Police Department spokesman said.
The third paragraph gives readers a sympathetic account of Mr. Smith from a neighbor:
"He was a young man trying to get back into his daughter's life," Mr. Smith's neighbor Michael Ballard, 47, said Wednesday, adding that he had never seen any problems with Mr. Smith.
Here the letters "OMG" come to the mind of this reader in the face of an obvious effort by reporters and editors at the New York Times to exculpate an individual who possessed and fired a handgun at members of the NYPD. It would seem that by quoting a neighbor of the deceased, readers are to conclude that he did not present "problems" to the community, notwithstanding his discharge, with wounding effect, of a weapon.
The ninth paragraph of this "exalt those who fire at police" story said:
The police said a 9-millimeter Glock handgun that had been stolen last year in Richmond, Va., had been recovered at the scene,
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“He wounded a police officer”
“but seemed unthreatening”
“after a weapons charge”
“he fired two shots at officers”
So, the liberal rag wants cops dead and criminals set free. No surprise there! It’s what the radical leftists have always wanted.
The perp also had 9 prior arrests. Yet, here he is — loose on the streets again.
Not any more, thanks to a good cop!
Tagline applies.
Did he seem unthreatening after he shot the policeman?
Then I’m sure someone will say that police here should have tried to shoot him in the hand or arm, so he wouldn’t be killed.
We’ve heard this all before.
“Neighbors said a man fatally shot by the police... was troubled but seemed unthreatening...Rameek Smith, 25, was killed in the Bronx after he fired two shots at officers...”
Makes no sense.
Mental health court control-———
Bladder control products.......
NEITHER one CONTROLS A DARN THING. THEY JUST soak up the leaks...
RE: “... was troubled but seemed unthreatening... was killed in the Bronx after he fired two shots at officers...”
Yep, to the NY Times, such a person who fired two shots at the police is considered troubled but unthreatening.
Jaime and Eddie would have no problem neutralizing the perp.
“...living under the supervision of a mental health court after a weapons charge.”
Need to hold the “mental health court” accountable. Since the criminally insane guy had been judged to be incapable of controlling his actions, what exactly were the “supervisors” doing to control him? Why was a mentally ill criminal able to obtain a stolen Glock while under their “supervision”? He could have killed untold numbers of people.
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