According to an eyewitness account of the killing of the 2 NYPD officers at the hands of Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley earlier this month, not everyone who witnessed the executions was exactly grieving or otherwise taken back over the incident.
In fact, some were downright elated that 2 officers had been gunned down.
The eyewitness states that “A lot of people were clapping and laughing.” He continues, “Some were saying, ‘They deserved it,’ and another was shouting at the cops, ‘Serves them right because you mistreat people!’” he stated.
Throughout New York, the execution-style killing of these officers in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn has generated a near-universal sense of horror at the crime—and sympathy for the victims.
“Now we have two families that’s missing someone from the holidays,” a Bedford-Stuyvesant resident told a local news station. “Where’s your sense of humanity?”
But the scene outside Woodhull Hospital wasn’t entirely supportive. “You’re a bunch of killers,” a passerby told cops standing sentry there, according to one police source. And short distance from the crime scene—where a crowd was backed up by the police tape—a few members of the crowd repeated “fuck the cops” within earshot of a Daily Beast reporter.
One 30-year-old local who gave his first name only as Carlos, didn’t hear the fatal gunfire but saw the hysteria aftewards and walked to the police tape.
“A lot of people were clapping and laughing,” he said.
“Some were saying, ‘They deserved it,’ and another was shouting at the cops, ‘Serves them right because you mistreat people!’” he said.
For Carlos, who walks his 10-year old daughter to school pass the police cruiser posted at Tompkins and Myrtle avenues, the double homicide—just a football field from his home of over a decade—was tragic.
“I walk my kid to school, passed that cop car everyday,” he said. “That’s their post. What would people rather not have the cops here to keep us safe?”
“Nobody deserves this,” he added. “If they really wanted to get revenge they should have gone to Staten Island and found the cops that killed Eric Garner.”
Others seemed less sympathetic towards the police, and even seemed to resent that the cops didn’t take as much notice of the area’s other crimes. While violent offenses are dramatically down in Bed Stuy, pockets of violence persist here.
“Gunshots is usual for this neighborhood,” said Kenneth Otero, 30, who lives in a ninth-floor apartment across the street in Tompkins Houses, the housing projects Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were assigned to.
He says he heard the two shots that killed Liu and Ramos.
“I was watching ‘Daniel The Tiger’ with my kid and I heard two shots like ‘boom-boom,’” he said.
“I walk my kid to school, passed that cop car everyday,” he said. “That’s their post. What would people rather not have the cops here to keep us safe?”But he believes the cops are going too far in the investigation of the murder of two of their own, with scores of cops and idling vehicles, and powerful spotlights turning the night of Tompkins Street into a surreal daylight.
“They’ve been here all day and now tonight,” he said. “This has happened before and it wasn’t this big spectacle.”
Liu and Rafael were there to protect against the common criminality Otero mentioned. It is so common, that 22-year-old Yonas Tenayo was dodging bullets just the night before on her way home to her safer neighborhood of Clinton.
Why would any police officer want to lay down his life to save anyone of these fools. Do unto others, will come back and bite these people.
They Wont Clap When They have To Face God
I do understand, but I also understand how wrong it is to defend bad cops. It is a shame what happened to the two cops on NY, and I feel bad for their families. I just wonder if they felt any remorse for those that have been murdered by bad cops.
Sadly, this is the Pandoras box we open when we continually lower our morals. We all stumble but when we officially sanction downward morality it opens up the door to all sorts of satanic evil. Many do not believe this and it is their folly and arrogance that will cause them to be hard hearted to the truth and the Lords way. We cannot hide from our Creator. This nation has been blessed beyond any other nation in the recorded history of the world, yet there is a class of people who wish t ruin the country, degrade its culture and morals and turn into a One World enslaved nation. All people are to be honored when they are murdered, not just officers of course, but these two officers were wrongly harmed and killed and they are a line of defense from thugs and criminals who wish harm. Bad officers are to be dealt with but these officers were doing just a daily routine, as 99$ of all officers nationwide do. We, as a people had better see the light for the day of reckoning is fast approaching. That means demanding higher calibers of entertainment and officials that are 100% for this nation and not other nations. And believers and defenders of our God given rights and freedoms under the Biblically formed, US CONSTITUION>
a bunch of morans too stupid to know better
Maybe it’s time to select an area of our nation to let these very unhappy, always complaining, criminal defending, lawless, kindless people to live. Let the liberals take care of all the people who want to be taken care of. Turn the criminals over to them so they can teach them not to be criminals. They can take all the guns away, throw out everything we know about human nature and live under their rainbow with their unicorns.
Really, why don’t you read about witness number 40. Just let me know if yoi need help with the big words.
Blame the politicians who allow this outrageous conduct to persist!
terrible
http://news.yahoo.com/ferguson-prosecutor-some-witnesses-lied-including-woman-who-didn-t-see-shooting-000602852.html