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Man Shot Dead After Attacking NYPD Officer With 11-Inch Hunting Knife in Coney Island: Police
WNBC-TV ^
| June 18, 2015
| Jonathan Dienst
Posted on 06/18/2015 7:54:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A 24-year-old uniformed NYPD officer assigned to transit foot patrol in Coney Island shot and killed a man who attacked him with an 11-inch hunting knife when the cop tried to arrest him for attacking a 78-year-old woman on a street below an elevated subway station Thursday, police said.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the 58-year-old suspect attacked the elderly woman below the Ocean Parkway Q train station around 1:30 p.m., not long after the woman, a stranger to the suspect, had tried to intervene in a separate dispute the suspect had had with a shop owner in a nearby store.
The suspect wrestled the woman to the ground, and she suffered bruises in the altercation, authorities said. The 24-year-old police officer, who heard the commotion while on the subway platform, descended to the street and tried to arrest the suspect, but the man pulled out the hunting knife and stabbed the officer in the neck, Bratton said....
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; coneyisland; crime; lawenforcement; leo; luckoftheamish; newyork; newyorkcity; nypd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/18/2015 7:56:21 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Was the “suspect”, now at room temperature, one of Lynch’s people? Just askin’
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posted on
06/18/2015 7:59:27 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sounds like he finally got some treatment for his anger management and self control issues.
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posted on
06/18/2015 7:59:35 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Our new rules of engagement for cops: Don’t shoot until you are stabbed in the neck...
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posted on
06/18/2015 7:59:53 PM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: Cboldt
More like Crocodile Dumbdee.
Brought a knife to a gun fight.
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posted on
06/18/2015 7:59:57 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
(Aim Small Miss Small)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The commie lib ‘RATs are dancing and splashing around in the blood of last night’s murders and then some jackass screws up the whole gun grab thing by attacking a cop with a Bowie knife.
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:02:23 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Without God there would be no science.)
To: kearnyirish2
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:02:40 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Never bring a knife.........
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:03:36 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: cripplecreek
How does one get stabbed in the neck with an eleven inch hunting knife yet need only a few stitches. Thank God, it just seems unlikely.
I guess only in horror movies does a knife go straight through the neck from the side.
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:10:00 PM PDT
by
dp0622
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No description of the perp, his name or anything.
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:12:41 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Warriors’ were from Coney, right?
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:13:22 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: max americana
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:15:20 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:22:48 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why no mention of race I wonder?
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:24:38 PM PDT
by
icwhatudo
(Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So much for the 21 ft. rule....good riddance.
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:29:56 PM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: icwhatudo
“Why no mention of race I wonder?”
maybe NBC NY doesn’t want to be seen reinforcing a stereotype.
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posted on
06/18/2015 8:48:06 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
DROP THE ‘nife..... NO?..
BANG!...
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posted on
06/18/2015 9:15:28 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why is there a story every minute in the mainstream media about police officers? Gosh enough!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Knives are a ISIS specialty
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posted on
06/19/2015 12:05:20 AM PDT
by
lavaroise
(A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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