have to arm honest citizens and make criminals know that we can and
will kill them if necessary
if even one of the movers had a gun he would have been justified in
shooting this thug ... even in the back if necessary
On Apr 9, 8:34 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Four Officers Are Shot in Brooklyn;
> Assailant Is Critically Wounded
> By JOSEPH GOLDSTEINNYTimes Published: April 8, 2012
>
> The dispute began as a simple argument on the sidewalk: a couple with
> a baby stroller found the entrance to their home blocked by some
> movers. Words were exchanged. A gun was brandished.
>
> "We have now had eight — that's correct, eight — members of the
> department shot in the last four months," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
> said on Sunday at a news conference at Lutheran Medical Center, where
> the officers were being treated. "And this is the second time in the
> last 24 hours police have been fired upon by armed assailants."
>
> "All the shootings have a disgraceful fact in common: all were
> committed with illegal guns that came from out of state," he added.
> "And that is the case with nearly every shooting in our city."
>
> New York Police Department
> Detective Michael Keenan
>
> New York Police Department
> Detective Kenneth Ayala
>
> New York Police Department
> Officer Matthew Granahan
>
> New York Police Department
> Capt. Al Pizzano
>
> "You just got out of jail; you're going to go back to jail," a
> witness, Jusuf Koci, recalled hearing the mother tell her companion,
> who held the gun.
>
> Hours later, the man identified as the gunman, Nakwon Foxworth,
> engaged the police in a pitched close-range gun battle early Sunday in
> Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, the police said. Four police officers were
> shot; all were expected to fully recover. Mr. Foxworth was in critical
> condition with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
>
> The shootings underscored the Bloomberg administration's continuing
> campaign for Congress to enact tougher gun laws.
>
> "We have now had eight — that's correct, eight — members of the
> department shot in the last four months," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
> said on Sunday at a news conference at Lutheran Medical Center, where
> the officers were being treated. "And this is the second time in the
> last 24 hours police have been fired upon by armed assailants."
>
> "All the shootings have a disgraceful fact in common: all were
> committed with illegal guns that came from out of state," he added.
> "And that is the case with nearly every shooting in our city."
>
> Mr. Foxworth, 33, fired his 9-millimeter Browning semiautomatic
> handgun 12 times at the officers, the police commissioner, Raymond W.
> Kelly, said at the hospital. In the couple's apartment, the police
> said, they also found a sawed-off, military-style assault rifle
> equipped with a scope, and a defaced 22-caliber revolver.
>
> Mr. Foxworth was charged with several crimes, including attempted
> murder and assault on a police officer.
>
> About 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Mr. Foxworth and his pregnant girlfriend
> returned to her apartment building on Nostrand Avenue with their
> 4-month-old son, only to find the entrance blocked. Movers were in the
> way, assisting another resident, and there was not enough room for the
> stroller to pass.
>
> Mr. Foxworth's response was extreme: he waved a handgun at the movers
> and ordered them out of his way and back into their moving van, the
> police said. One of the movers called 911.
>
> Anti-crime officers from the 61st Precinct tracked the gunman to the
> couple's apartment, 6-K, and saw through a peephole the couple and the
> infant. Nobody came to the door in response to the officers' knocking,
> and they grew concerned about the possibility of a hostage situation.
> Officers from the Emergency Service Unit and a hostage negotiation
> team were called to the scene.
>
> Not long after, the woman burst out of the apartment holding her baby,
> Mr. Kelly said. She told the officers that Mr. Foxworth was armed and
> had been holding them hostage.
>
> As the officers streamed through the door, Mr. Foxworth emerged from a
> bedroom and began shooting at the six-member Emergency Service team,
> Mr. Kelly said. He apparently aimed low, trying to shoot below the
> hand-held ballistic shield that the lead officer carried, according to
> the Police Department's chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne.
>
> Detective Michael Keenan, 52, was struck in his left calf; Detective
> Kenneth Ayala, 49, was hit in the thigh and foot; and Police Officer
> Matthew Granahan, 35, was wounded in his left calf. Capt. Al Pizzano,
> 45, also sustained a graze wound to his face, Mr. Kelly said. Three
> officers, including Detective Ayala and Officer Granahan, returned
> fire, Mr. Kelly said.
>
> "It was like strobe lights, maybe 15 flashes in a matter of seconds,"
> said a woman who lives nearby and said she saw the shots while she was
> smoking a cigarette on her porch across the street.
>
> The handgun Mr. Foxworth fired was originally bought in Wilmington,
> N.C., Mr. Kelly said. The sawed-off rifle had been stolen in Florida.
>
> Mr. Foxworth was released from prison in 2009 after serving a 10-year
> term that began with a shorter sentence for a weapons conviction but
> was extended after he was discovered selling drugs in prison,
> according to Mr. Browne and prison records. Previously he had served a
> sentence of nearly two years for attempted murder.
>
> In an unrelated event, officers patrolling in Red Hook, Brooklyn, were
> fired on early Saturday after approaching two men, one of whom
> appeared to be drinking alcohol in public. One of the men fled, and
> after falling down, turned toward the police officers and fired at
> them, the authorities said.
>
> The officers returned fire and chased the man until they lost him in a
> building on Columbia Street. Detectives later tracked the man to a
> livery cab in the Rockaways and arrested him, Mr. Browne said, adding
> that the suspect was found to have a wound to his shoulder, probably
> from a police bullet.
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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