Saturday, May 30, 2009

New York City Cops Killing Themselves

Fire away, copper!

Hey, don't get mad at me, you are DOING IT TO YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!


"NYC investigates how officer shot colleague" by Associated Press | May 30, 2009

NEW YORK - A police officer had just opened fire on a man he thought was a criminal, caught running through a dark stretch of Harlem with a gun in his hand.

But when paramedics arrived at the scene and cut through the bloodied clothes, the officers realized the man handcuffed and dying in the street was wearing a police academy T-shirt underneath his street clothes and had a badge in his pocket.

He was a rookie officer chasing down a thief who had just broken into his car.

Maybe letting cops walk the streets with assault rifles is not a good idea, 'eh, Boston?

And why the vagueness and subtlety about the fact that the ROOKIE -- ergo a young guy -- is DEAD!? Did he have a wife or kids?

Now, police are trying to determine whether any disciplinary or legal action will be taken against the police officer who fired his gun or whether the victim, Omar J. Edwards, might not have followed proper procedure....

Yeah, BLAME the DEAD GUY for DEFENDING HIS PROPERTY!!

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