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-War on Police-

Dozens of NYPD officers pack courtroom for first hearing of accused cop-killer

2023-02-10

[NYPOST] More than 100 of New York’s Finest packed a Brooklyn courtroom Wednesday as the career criminal accused of fatally shooting off-duty cop Adeed Fayaz

...a Pakistani-American who came to America at the age of five, and by middle school had decided he wanted to become a New York City policeman...

faced a judge for the first time on the murder charge.

Randy "Popper" Jones, 38, wore a Tyvek suit as he was arraigned on the first-degree murder rap and ordered held at Rikers Island without bail by Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Dale Fong-Frederick.

The hearing came the day after Fayaz, a 26-year-old married father of two, departed this vale of tears at Brookdale Hospital, where he had been on life support since the Saturday evening shooting.

Prosecutors said Jones — who has a lengthy rap sheet — had an outstanding traffic warrant and was wanted in a statutory rape case in Virginia when he allegedly shot Fayaz in the head during a botched robbery in East New York.

Fayaz, a five-year veteran of the NYPD, had gone with his brother-in-law, a livery cab driver, to meet the seller of a Honda Odyssey advertised on Facebook Marketplace shortly before 7 p.m. Feb. 4, when he was ambushed.

It would have been an easy money scam, but it became murder instead.

"When Officer Fayaz and his brother arrived, the defendant whipped out a rod, demanded money and then shot Officer Fayaz when they didn’t produce the money, which they had left in the car along with the bill of sale," Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Leila Rosini said in court.

“Tragically, and unbeknownst to the defendant, the $24,000 in cash was in their car, just not on their person and he did not wait,” she said.

“He just shot.”

Fayaz’s relative then grabbed the young cop’s gun and fired off several rounds at their attacker, leaving a bullet hole in the getaway BMW SUV as it sped away, prosecutors said.

Jones, of Harlem, was on the lam for two days before cops tracked him down at a Days Inn hotel in Nanuet in Rockland County on Monday, where he was holed up with his girlfriend.

He was taken into custody with Fayaz’s handcuffs and hauled back to Brooklyn.

Jones was hit with charges of murder and robbery Tuesday evening following Fayaz’s death.

The fallen officer received a traditional “transfer of remains” ceremony at the hospital, as flags were flown at half-staff at his Borough Park precinct in his honor.

Posted by:Fred

#5 who has a lengthy rap sheet

Posted by: a 2023-02-10 11:00

#4 Randy "Popper" Jones, 38, wore a Tyvek suit

Because he was toxic, or to cover the vest?

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-02-10 10:27

#3 Naa... not socially based,
but a public jury conviction based with usual appeal process exhausted.

Posted by: NN2N1 2023-02-10 10:24

#2 Imagine if we kept score. I dunno, maybe some kind of social credit system or something like that...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-02-10 07:30

#1
When any THUG has reach X# of violent convictions, it should be clear, even to a panty waist SHE-IT Liberal, that hug's and love are not working.

They need to be removed from society, since they have repeatedly proven they can't function as non-violent members of society within it.

The French Devil's Island criminal control methodology comes to mind. And, it just happens that NY/US Gov. has a mostly unused Plum Island.

Maybe isolation for the protection of society wasn't such a bad idea. Maybe it just needed better administration?

BTW: 😎Plum Island
was the US Animal Disease Center - Grain of Function origination point for Lyme Tick Disease.

Posted by: NN2N1 2023-02-10 07:22

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