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.
If they were laughing at this atrocity, then they are sick to the core!
They asked for it, plain and simple. You don’t make fun of Eric’s death and wear T-shirts that say: “I can Breathe easy” and then expect to morn your own loss without insult and disgrace. Come on people! (Because Eric was such a threat to society he had to be killed, get lost people.)
This is un American. We must roll back these
shameful times. Don r
THAT IS TERRIBLE!
.. I have to go to Sandy Hook ..blend into the local drunk crowd and find out the true story … Local watering hole , American Legion , VFW …. Get back to ya on this….
Not in my house and screw them and I don’t think have the guts to laugh in front patriots
That is so sad!!!
This type of evil will just continue to get worse as the time gets closer to Jesus’ return!!! So many “leaders” are nothing more than racist pawns od Satan, along with the majority of the media!!! The Bible says in the end times the right shall be wrong and the wrong shall be right. I don’t know any better way to describe what’s been happening, both in America and all over the world!!! We hear our elected leaders vilify the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to protect us all, and turn around and demand that we APOLOGIZE to the terrorists that we have in custody because we didn’t treat them with kid gloves after the evil jerks killed almost 3000 innocent Americans on 9/11!!! The race baiters LIE and incite riots and protest ALL OVER the US, chanting “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” The mayor of NY needs to be dethroned, and Sharpton and the other race baiters need to be brought up on charges of calling for the murder of these cops!!!!
That calls for a butt whipping and then a deportation !!!
The sad thing is that they are controlling both sides…
Do no harm.
Love is the only way