Coward fatally ambushes 2 NYPD, commits suicide (3 Viewers)

[Short Corner]

And he spoke Arabic.

 

[General Tso]

Yeah, so I pretty much predicted this a few weeks ago during the Michael Brown riots. Al Sharpton, the Brown family, and all the protesters - they all have a little blood on their hands tonight. Sleep well.

Congrats?

Oh gosh no. If that sounded in any way like a braggart I take it back. My point was that it seemed pretty obvious to me at the time that people were being incited to riot, and this is the end result. People arguing that the protests and the lies being spewed out were harmless, well, not so harmless were they?

 

[Widbil83]

What is going on with the NYC mayor and the cops?

The NYPD banned NYC mayor De Blasio from police funerals just last week because of his comments about them. Pretty bad timing here for him.

 

[Tom Servo]

Yeah, so I pretty much predicted this a few weeks ago during the Michael Brown riots. Al Sharpton, the Brown family, and all the protesters - they all have a little blood on their hands tonight. Sleep well.

Congrats?

Oh gosh no. If that sounded in any way like a braggart I take it back. My point was that it seemed pretty obvious to me at the time that people were being incited to riot, and this is the end result. People arguing that the protests and the lies being spewed out were harmless, well, not so harmless were they?

Fair enough.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Can we get this thread off Sharpton and back to the topic at hand? I already linked to his condemnation of the attack. Geez.

Yes, I've been informed black people can't be racist. Time to move on, people.

LOL. When I was in college I had a young, angry black woman confront me at an anti-Farakhan rally screaming that black people cannot, by definition, be racist.

Do tell

 

[JaxBill]

Update 7:40 p.m. | Police Commissioner William J. Bratton identified the slain officers as Wenjian Liu, a seven-year veteran of the force, and Rafael Ramos, 40, who has been an officer since 2012.

“Today two of New York’s finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation,” Mr. Bratton, looking deeply shaken, said at Woodhull Hospital in Williamsburg. “They were, quite simply, assassinated — trargeted for their uniform and for the responsibility they embraced to keep the people of this city safe.”

Updated, 7:49 p.m. | Commissioner Bratton identified the shooter as Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28.

At 2:47 p.m., Mr. Bratton said, as the officers sat in their marked car at the corner of Tompkins and Myrtle Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Mr. Brinsley walked up to it.

“He took a shooting stance on the passenger side and fired his weapon several times through the front passenger window, striking both officers in the head,” Mr. Bratton said.

“Officer Ramos and Officer Liu never had the opportunity to draw their weapons. They may never have had the chance to see their murderer.”

Mr. Brinsley then fled to the nearby Myrtle-Willoughby subway station and shot himself in the head on the platform, Mr. Bratton said.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

I too condemn these killings.

I would never, NEVER shoot a cop.

Unless it's that cop from Terminator 2.

I've never seen any of the Terminator movies.

A local TV station used to show it all of the time about 2am when I was in HS. It was fun to watch in my stoned, drunken state usually eating White Castle. Ah the good ol days.

 

[JaxBill]

Updated, 8:11 p.m. | Mr. Brinsley is linked to an incident in Baltimore County, Md., early this morning in which a woman was shot and wounded, Commissioner Bratton said.

After the Maryland shooting, the commissioner said, Mr. Brinsley posted on Instagram that he was headed to New York to attack police officers and that the posting might be his last.

Mr. Bratton said that Maryland officials had sent a warning notice to the police in New York, but that it arrived just as the officers were shot.

“The tragedy here is that just as the warning was coming in, the murder was occurring,” Mr. Bratton said.

He said there were no indications that Mr. Brinsley was acting in concert with anyone else.

He said that Mr. Brinsley had been living in Georgia and had a girlfriend in Maryland and some connection to Brooklyn.

 

[General Tso]

Can we get this thread off Sharpton and back to the topic at hand? I already linked to his condemnation of the attack. Geez.

Yes, I've been informed black people can't be racist. Time to move on, people.

LOL. When I was in college I had a young, angry black woman confront me at an anti-Farakhan rally screaming that black people cannot, by definition, be racist.

Do tell

Coming from the guy posing tasteless "jokes?" about Terminator movies? Take a hike.

 

[squistion]

Yeah, so I pretty much predicted this a few weeks ago during the Michael Brown riots. Al Sharpton, the Brown family, and all the protesters - they all have a little blood on their hands tonight. Sleep well.

Congrats?

Oh gosh no. If that sounded in any way like a braggart I take it back. My point was that it seemed pretty obvious to me at the time that people were being incited to riot, and this is the end result. People arguing that the protests and the lies being spewed out were harmless, well, not so harmless were they?

Oh yes, it was definitely foreseeable that a lone nutcase in Baltimore would shoot his girlfriend and then travel to New York to murder some police officers as a result of the Brown protests/riots.

 

[JaxBill]

What is going on with the NYC mayor and the cops?

The NYPD banned NYC mayor De Blasio from police funerals just last week because of his comments about them. Pretty bad timing here for him.

Well this should smooth things over.

Updated, 8:23 p.m. | The city’s main police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, blamed Mayor de Blasio for the shootings in vividly inflammatory language.

“The mayor’s hands are literally dripping with our blood because of his words, actions and policies,” read the statement, presumably from the head of the union, Patrick Lynch, “and we have, for the first time in a number of years, become a ‘wartime’ police department. We will act accordingly.”

After the decision by the grand jury in Staten Island not to indict and officer in the death of Eric Garner, Mr. de Blasio statements supportive of the protests against the criminal justice system that spread across the city and still continue.

 

[General Tso]

Yeah, so I pretty much predicted this a few weeks ago during the Michael Brown riots. Al Sharpton, the Brown family, and all the protesters - they all have a little blood on their hands tonight. Sleep well.

Congrats?

Oh gosh no. If that sounded in any way like a braggart I take it back. My point was that it seemed pretty obvious to me at the time that people were being incited to riot, and this is the end result. People arguing that the protests and the lies being spewed out were harmless, well, not so harmless were they?

Oh yes, it was definitely foreseeable that a lone nutcase in Baltimore would shoot his girlfriend and then travel to New York to murder some police officers as a result of the Brown protests/riots.

The FBI issued an intelligence bulletin in mid November warning that the Brown case would likely lead to situations just like this - loan wolf attacks on cops. Not sure if the Bulletin actually outlined that it would be someone from Baltimore traveling to New York though. So your point is well taken.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I too condemn these killings.

I would never, NEVER shoot a cop.

Unless it's that cop from Terminator 2.

I've never seen any of the Terminator movies.

A local TV station used to show it all of the time about 2am when I was in HS. It was fun to watch in my stoned, drunken state usually eating White Castle. Ah the good ol days.

I mean "Rocky" movies. Wait...that's you.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Can we get this thread off Sharpton and back to the topic at hand? I already linked to his condemnation of the attack. Geez.

Yes, I've been informed black people can't be racist. Time to move on, people.

LOL. When I was in college I had a young, angry black woman confront me at an anti-Farakhan rally screaming that black people cannot, by definition, be racist.

Do tell

Coming from the guy posing tasteless "jokes?" about Terminator movies? Take a hike.

I feel bad now.

 

[Mr.Pack]

Can we get this thread off Sharpton and back to the topic at hand? I already linked to his condemnation of the attack. Geez.

Yes, I've been informed black people can't be racist. Time to move on, people.

LOL. When I was in college I had a young, angry black woman confront me at an anti-Farakhan rally screaming that black people cannot, by definition, be racist.

Do tell

Coming from the guy posing tasteless "jokes?" about Terminator movies? Take a hike.

I feel bad now.

That...... that was funny right there.

 

[JaxBill]

Wow

In the wake of the shootings, the city’s main police union issued instructions that effective immediately, “At least two units are to respond to every call, no matter the condition or severity, no matter what type of job is pending, or what the opinion of the patrol supervisor happens to be.”

The statement, from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, added: “Absolutely NO enforcement action in the form of arrests and or summonses is to be taken unless absolutely necessary and an individual MUST be placed under arrest. These are precautions that were taken in the 1970’s when Police Officers were ambushed and executed on a regular basis.”

 

[Tom Servo]

Can we get this thread off Sharpton and back to the topic at hand? I already linked to his condemnation of the attack. Geez.

Yes, I've been informed black people can't be racist. Time to move on, people.

LOL. When I was in college I had a young, angry black woman confront me at an anti-Farakhan rally screaming that black people cannot, by definition, be racist.

Do tell

Coming from the guy posing tasteless "jokes?" about Terminator movies? Take a hike.

I feel bad now.

You can pet your cat; that should make you feel better.

 

[mr roboto]

Didn't the shooter post photos of the murder weapon and blood on their shoe with messages about how this was retaliation for Garner et al?

Yes. Here http://instagram.com/p/w2I6-9ywlR/

 

[chauncey]

If we could all just agree that we all are racist and get rid of this high horse people people like to ride on then we could focus on real issues.

 

[General Tso]

Can we get this thread off Sharpton and back to the topic at hand? I already linked to his condemnation of the attack. Geez.

Yes, I've been informed black people can't be racist. Time to move on, people.

LOL. When I was in college I had a young, angry black woman confront me at an anti-Farakhan rally screaming that black people cannot, by definition, be racist.

Do tell

Coming from the guy posing tasteless "jokes?" about Terminator movies? Take a hike.

I feel bad now.

You think it's cute being flip about the murder of two police officers right before Christmas? It's obvious you don't care at all about this tragedy. I guess it's bad enough that people are actually this cold and callous today. And I get it that you are asolutely gleeful about the whole thing. But the thing that gets me is your arrogance and lack of social aptitude for understanding that something like this is deeply upsetting to a number of people in here. But you tweak away. Cowardly and toolish.

 

[avoiding injuries]

It's not a huge leap of faith to think the recent rhetoric about the police had something to do with this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dj4ARsxrZh8

Perhaps it's just a terrible coincidence.

Why was Sharpton so quick to condemn these killings? Race doesn't appear to be a factor, so it's weird he's even commenting. He's getting defensive about something...

 

[mr roboto]

It's not a huge leap of faith to think the recent rhetoric about the police had something to do with this.

 

[Tom Servo]

Can we get this thread off Sharpton and back to the topic at hand? I already linked to his condemnation of the attack. Geez.

Yes, I've been informed black people can't be racist. Time to move on, people.

LOL. When I was in college I had a young, angry black woman confront me at an anti-Farakhan rally screaming that black people cannot, by definition, be racist.

Do tell

Coming from the guy posing tasteless "jokes?" about Terminator movies? Take a hike.

I feel bad now.

You think it's cute being flip about the murder of two police officers right before Christmas? It's obvious you don't care at all about this tragedy. I guess it's bad enough that people are actually this cold and callous today. And I get it that you are asolutely gleeful about the whole thing. But the thing that gets me is your arrogance and lack of social aptitude for understanding that something like this is deeply upsetting to a number of people in here. But you tweak away. Cowardly and toolish.

OPM is a lot of things, but I seriously doubt he's jumping for joy over this.

 

[Mister Martie]

Sharpton demagoguery almost rises to the level of fascistic at times, it's almost Crown Heights all over again. He and De Blasio and their ilk should turn down the rhetoric now.

Tragic.

Thanks for instantly turning this thread political.

I'm sorry my friend but politics may be the motive and cause for the killing.

Best of luck in scoring your political points.

 

[Widbil83]

What is going on with the NYC mayor and the cops?

The NYPD banned NYC mayor De Blasio from police funerals just last week because of his comments about them. Pretty bad timing here for him.

Well this should smooth things over.

Updated, 8:23 p.m. | The city’s main police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, blamed Mayor de Blasio for the shootings in vividly inflammatory language.

“The mayor’s hands are literally dripping with our blood because of his words, actions and policies,” read the statement, presumably from the head of the union, Patrick Lynch, “and we have, for the first time in a number of years, become a ‘wartime’ police department. We will act accordingly.”

After the decision by the grand jury in Staten Island not to indict and officer in the death of Eric Garner, Mr. de Blasio statements supportive of the protests against the criminal justice system that spread across the city and still continue.

I actually wonder if De Blasio will survive this. There are already several calls for him to resign.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Wow

In the wake of the shootings, the city’s main police union issued instructions that effective immediately, “At least two units are to respond to every call, no matter the condition or severity, no matter what type of job is pending, or what the opinion of the patrol supervisor happens to be.”

The statement, from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, added: “Absolutely NO enforcement action in the form of arrests and or summonses is to be taken unless absolutely necessary and an individual MUST be placed under arrest. These are precautions that were taken in the 1970’s when Police Officers were ambushed and executed on a regular basis.”

It's back to the future in NYC. That is where Giuliani showed up, after the Crown Heights riot turned the political attitude. I wouldn't be surprised if De Blasio is a one termer.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Sharpton demagoguery almost rises to the level of fascistic at times, it's almost Crown Heights all over again. He and De Blasio and their ilk should turn down the rhetoric now.

Tragic.

Thanks for instantly turning this thread political.

I'm sorry my friend but politics may be the motive and cause for the killing.

Best of luck in scoring your political points.

Ok Martie, much respect towards you and I mean that. But politics is at the heart of this, feel free to discuss it without as well, but we will wind up with with a lot of blanks when it comes to motive . Apologies if I have offended, and I also mean that.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Can we get this thread off Sharpton and back to the topic at hand? I already linked to his condemnation of the attack. Geez.

Yes, I've been informed black people can't be racist. Time to move on, people.

LOL. When I was in college I had a young, angry black woman confront me at an anti-Farakhan rally screaming that black people cannot, by definition, be racist.

Do tell

Coming from the guy posing tasteless "jokes?" about Terminator movies? Take a hike.

I feel bad now.

You think it's cute being flip about the murder of two police officers right before Christmas? It's obvious you don't care at all about this tragedy. I guess it's bad enough that people are actually this cold and callous today. And I get it that you are asolutely gleeful about the whole thing. But the thing that gets me is your arrogance and lack of social aptitude for understanding that something like this is deeply upsetting to a number of people in here. But you tweak away. Cowardly and toolish.

Now I really feel bad.

 

[avoiding injuries]

It's not a huge leap of faith to think the recent rhetoric about the police had something to do with this.

Yup. Sharpton is such a POS

 

[General Tso]

It's not a huge leap of faith to think the recent rhetoric about the police had something to do with this.

Of course it did!The protesters chanted:

"What do we want?

Dead cops!

When do we want it?

Now!"

Farakhan called for "two of them (police) for every one of ours". This nut did exactly what the protesters and leaders incited the people to do. Don't be at all surprised if several arrests are made.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

It's not a huge leap of faith to think the recent rhetoric about the police had something to do with this.

That protest in NYC is still shocking, horrific.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Martie, do you want to speculate as to motive here?

Let's leave politics out, direct the conversation, I'm listening.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Didn't the shooter post photos of the murder weapon and blood on their shoe with messages about how this was retaliation for Garner et al?

Yes. Here http://instagram.com/p/w2I6-9ywlR/

So two more people lost their lives partially because of the lies told by Dorian Johnson. The guy that was beaten to death with hammers probably did too. This is why I stated that you don't base the foundation of a movement on a lie. How DJ hasn't been charged is disgraceful.

 

[tdoss]

Liu and Ramos...sounds Chinese and Spanish...not black.

But I guess they could still be black...just not sure on those early reports of them being two female black officers.

 

[avoiding injuries]

Sharpton demagoguery almost rises to the level of fascistic at times, it's almost Crown Heights all over again. He and De Blasio and their ilk should turn down the rhetoric now.

Tragic.

Thanks for instantly turning this thread political.

I'm sorry my friend but politics may be the motive and cause for the killing.

Best of luck in scoring your political points.

Ok Martie, much respect towards you and I mean that. But politics is at the heart of this, feel free to discuss it without as well, but we will wind up with with a lot of blanks when it comes to motive . Apologies if I have offended, and I also mean that.

#### that. It's not your fault the majority of people who went anti-cop recently had the same political leanings.

 

[General Tso]

Can we get this thread off Sharpton and back to the topic at hand? I already linked to his condemnation of the attack. Geez.

Yes, I've been informed black people can't be racist. Time to move on, people.

LOL. When I was in college I had a young, angry black woman confront me at an anti-Farakhan rally screaming that black people cannot, by definition, be racist.

Do tell

Coming from the guy posing tasteless "jokes?" about Terminator movies? Take a hike.

I feel bad now.

You think it's cute being flip about the murder of two police officers right before Christmas? It's obvious you don't care at all about this tragedy. I guess it's bad enough that people are actually this cold and callous today. And I get it that you are asolutely gleeful about the whole thing. But the thing that gets me is your arrogance and lack of social aptitude for understanding that something like this is deeply upsetting to a number of people in here. But you tweak away. Cowardly and toolish.

OPM is a lot of things, but I seriously doubt he's jumping for joy over this.

I don't know him from Adam. All I know is what I see from his posts in this thread, and he doesn't sound at all torn up about any of this. When you walk into a conversation about a a tragedy and start talking nonsensical, meaningless trash, you are pretty much telling everyone you don't give a ####. Maybe he's autistic or has Aspurgers Syndrome. Don't know and don't care at this point.

 

[Tom Servo]

Liu and Ramos...sounds Chinese and Spanish...not black.

But I guess they could still be black...just not sure on those early reports of them being two female black officers.

First reports are often unreliable.

 

[fantasycurse42]

What is going on with the NYC mayor and the cops?

The NYPD banned NYC mayor De Blasio from police funerals just last week because of his comments about them. Pretty bad timing here for him.

Technically they can't ban him. The head of the PBA asked that all officers sign a form he created so that the mayor not attend their funeral should they die. IDK how this one plays out.

 

[General Tso]

Didn't the shooter post photos of the murder weapon and blood on their shoe with messages about how this was retaliation for Garner et al?

Yes. Here http://instagram.com/p/w2I6-9ywlR/

So two more people lost their lives partially because of the lies told by Dorian Johnson. The guy that was beaten to death with hammers probably did too. This is why I stated that you don't base the foundation of a movement on a lie. How DJ hasn't been charged is disgraceful.

Amen Brother. They built their castle on pillars of sand.

 

[avoiding injuries]

It's not a huge leap of faith to think the recent rhetoric about the police had something to do with this.

Could it be another coincidence that Farakhan gave that speech in Baltimore?

 

[Tom Servo]

WPIX supposedly has video of cops turning their backs as the mayor enters tonight's presser. Oof.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Sharpton demagoguery almost rises to the level of fascistic at times, it's almost Crown Heights all over again. He and De Blasio and their ilk should turn down the rhetoric now.

Tragic.

Thanks for instantly turning this thread political.

I'm sorry my friend but politics may be the motive and cause for the killing.

Best of luck in scoring your political points.

Ok Martie, much respect towards you and I mean that. But politics is at the heart of this, feel free to discuss it without as well, but we will wind up with with a lot of blanks when it comes to motive . Apologies if I have offended, and I also mean that.

#### that. It's not your fault the majority of people who went anti-cop recently had the same political leanings.

I try to keep it polite and respectful. It would help if MM provided his own apolitical insights because I'm not sure how this issue can be discussed honestly without looking at what is essentially a political murder as just that.

 

[Tom Servo]

Former Governor Pataki weighs in:

Sickened by these barbaric acts, which sadly are a predictable outcome of divisive anti-cop rhetoric of #ericholder & #mayordiblasio. #NYPD

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

It's not a huge leap of faith to think the recent rhetoric about the police had something to do with this.

Really?

 

[avoiding injuries]

The Game (rapper) chimes in:

@thegame: I guess y'all "can't breathe" either. #RIPEricGarner #AllLivesMatter @ Brighton & Hove, UK http://t.co/7ztu51OpY3

 

[avoiding injuries]

It's not a huge leap of faith to think the recent rhetoric about the police had something to do with this.

Yes. Morgan State University

 

[General Tso]

You know who else is getting a "vacation" soon? Our old pal Louis Farakhan. Pretty sure that's the last we'll see and hear from him.

Yup, he gave his speech calling for violence against cops in Baltimore two weeks ago. Rot in hell Louie.

http://topconservativenews.com/2014/11/farrakhan-green-lights-violence-calls-for-racial-holy-war-at-massive-rally/

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

The Game (rapper) chimes in:

@thegame: I guess y'all "can't breathe" either. #RIPEricGarner #AllLivesMatter @ Brighton & Hove, UK http://t.co/7ztu51OpY3

You know who else is getting a "vacation" soon? Our old pal Louis Farakhan. Pretty sure that's the last we'll see and hear from him.

http://topconservati...-massive-rally/

The KKK and their ilk could not be happier about these developments I bet.

 

[Widbil83]

WPIX supposedly has video of cops turning their backs as the mayor enters tonight's presser. Oof.

http://pix11.com/2014/12/20/video-nypd-officers-turn-away-from-mayor-de-blasio-as-he-enters-police-presser/

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

WPIX supposedly has video of cops turning their backs as the mayor enters tonight's presser. Oof.

http://pix11.com/2014/12/20/video-nypd-officers-turn-away-from-mayor-de-blasio-as-he-enters-police-presser/

Very bad situation for De Blasio.