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.
We have a select few to blame for this. Those in a position to calm the people involved instead are using their position to fuel the problem. B. Insane obama, al not so sharpton, jesse jackasson, and the communist mayor of NYC. to name a few.
This is a behavior mentioned in the prophecy in the Bible.. of a day when people would have no mercy no sympathy no love for anyone but themselves.
I pray next year these idiots get too cold to protest anymore
Sick!
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Pure evil
I’m sorry you are ill informed. I assume you base your opinion on your deep, vast understanding of the day to day lives of a law enforcement officer? No you are not a cop, and you would be to terrified to fight what others fear. We are a different breed. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time in their profession, and unfortunately, cops are not above reproach. We make mistakes. But I digress, these “animals” are celebrating the death of two officers, and yes, they seem to rejoice in it. I don’t recall seeing a single officer ever have to use lethal force and then there being a celebration. You know why, because there was none. It was more like several therapy sessions. The issue of people chanting for dead cops , if it were just a few people, in an isolated area, would be nothing, but millions of al sharptons mindless sheep across the nation are celebrating this.
Something is very wrong with this society that Obama and company have spawned!
These cops have to put up with scum,think you can do better,we know 70 percent or more of blacks are criminals, quit the hate
Sickening! To take pleasure in the assassination of two innocent people because they want revenge for what others have done to their race in the past…