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“It’s a very difficult and painful night for our city,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, after visiting the family of the slain detective. “We lost a very good man.”
Reminds me of the Empire State Building "spray & pray" from a few years back where 9 people were shot by cops.
Reminds me of the Empire State Building "spray & pray" from a few years back where 9 people were shot by cops.
The shooting of Amadou Diallo occurred on February 4, 1999, when Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, was shot and killed by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers—Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss—after they mistook him for a rape suspect from one year earlier. The officers fired a combined total of 41 shots, 19 of which struck Diallo, outside his apartment at 1157 Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of The Bronx. The four were part of the now-defunct Street Crimes Unit. All four officers were charged with second-degree murder and acquitted at trial in Albany, New York.[1]
Diallo was unarmed, and a firestorm of controversy erupted subsequent to the event as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both within and outside New York City. Issues such as police brutality, racial profiling, and contagious shooting were central to the ensuing controversy.
If we’re thinking of the same incident, the cops shot and killed more people than the guy they were chasing, IIRC.
IIRC, the guy they were after didn't even kill anyone. He had a knife (or something they thought was a knife) in his hand and was walking away from them.
The one I’m thinking of was a guy that had just executed a very specific individual in broad daylight, and was fleeing on foot.
New York City Detective Killed by ‘Friendly Fire’ During Queens Robbery
Mis-identification and possibly a fair amount of "spray and pray". From other reports, the actual suspect had a replica firearm. Not good.
Can detectives carry any pistol they like? Just asking
Sound guy, not camera man, but, yeah. Suspect with a BB gun started running when the cops and the camera crew came in, the cops began emptying their weapons, and the sound tech was hit in the melee. Really didn't look like the officers had much concept of who was around them.A while back a camera man from the shot "COPS" bought the farm in a similar situation.
Sound guy, not camera man, but, yeah. Suspect with a BB gun started running when the cops and the camera crew came in, the cops began emptying their weapons, and the camera man was hit in the melee. Really didn't look like the officers had much concept of who was around them.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj7ksU1tJR0
Sound guy, not camera man, but, yeah. Suspect with a BB gun started running when the cops and the camera crew came in, the cops began emptying their weapons, and the camera man was hit in the melee. Really didn't look like the officers had much concept of who was around them.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj7ksU1tJR0
Or flash bang in a boat.What'd they shoot off, like 91 rounds that day too?
Not in NYPD.
Mistaken shootings of plain clothes and undercover officers happen on a fairly regular basis. With shots fired, a confused scene, lots of adrenaline, it’s not a surprise.
Thoughts and prayers for the officer’s family and loved ones.
I'm pretty shocked they would send a camera crew in on an armed robbery call. Seems flat out stupid.
Can detectives carry any pistol they like? Just asking
To wit: NES: Shooting reported outside Empire State BuildingReminds me of the Empire State Building "spray & pray" from a few years back where 9 people were shot by cops.