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2013-03-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Brooklyn Cops Gun down Black Teen Carrying Loaded 38 for a Friend

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2013-03-14 11:19|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Do NOT wave a gun at the cops, you won't like the next thing that happens.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-03-14 12:02|| 2013-03-14 12:02|| Front Page Top

#2 What a friend, gets you killed, yea.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-03-14 12:15|| 2013-03-14 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 RJ has it right. But, it's frightening that I've become so cynical that my immediate response is to question the official version of any story like this.

Posted by Alanc 2013-03-14 12:29|| 2013-03-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps three bullets entered his back after the first four spun him around.

Sad situation to be sure. But as RJ says, you pull a gun when a cop is around, you're just begging to be shot -- and you'll usually get your wish.

Posted by Steve White 2013-03-14 12:43|| 2013-03-14 12:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Basic rules for survival:

1. Don't wave a gun at guys with guns.
2. Don't throw rocks at guys with guns.
3. Don't stand next to guys who violate rules 1 or 2.

(Apologies to Joel Rosenberg.)

Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-03-14 12:44|| 2013-03-14 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 anybody else get hit in the firefight? I seem to remember the last time NYPD opened up in a public place their marksmanship left something to be desired. At any rate - they probably saved the taxpayer some money at a future date.

Posted by Broadhead6 2013-03-14 13:02|| 2013-03-14 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Tishana King said she witnessed the shooting of Kimani Gray from her third floor window and she says she saw no gun

If you can't believe an eye witness like Tishana King, who can you believe ?

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-14 13:17|| 2013-03-14 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 "Tishana King said she witnessed the shooting of Kimani Gray from her third floor window and she says she saw no gun."

So he was carrying an imaginary gun? Was it for an imaginary friend?

Idiot.

Posted by Barbara 2013-03-14 13:35|| 2013-03-14 13:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Dude was a documented gang member. They're giving him the "full Trayvon" - with cute pix from his childhood - NYPost:
Two plain-clothes anti-crime cops got out of an unmarked car and tried to approach Gray who began fiddling with his waistband, police said. The teen turned and pointed a .38 caliber revolver before the two cops fired a total of eleven rounds, police sources said.

A 30-year-old sergeant with eight years on the job shot four times, a source confirmed. A 26-year-old officer who has five years on the job fired seven times, the source added.

He was facing them when he pointed the gun, the police source said.

Cops fired from the front and the teen was hit twice in the right thigh. He spun around to get hit in the back of the each thigh, once on the left forearm, once in the lower rib cage and once in the left shoulder, another police source explained.

At least three bullets and one fragment were recovered, officials said.

Family members told the press the teen did not have a gun. Then they said that even if he did, he had too much common sense to point it at police.

Gray, whose pictures show him sporting beads worn by Bloods members, was arrested on almost a dozen charges since turning 16 last year. His arrests include grand and petit larceny, possession of stolen property and inciting a riot.

Police recovered a weapon and said several bullets were missing. Its not believed that Gray fired on cops.

After a vigil for Gray, protesters rioted, ransacked local stores, attacked a 51-year-old man and hurled several objects at police while shouting about racism.

The sergeant who shot Gray is black and the officer is Hispanic, the Post learned yesterday.

Posted by Frank G 2013-03-14 13:43|| 2013-03-14 13:43|| Front Page Top

#10 "After a vigil for Gray, protesters rioted, ransacked local stores"

Because nothing says we mourn someone's passing like a good riot and ransacking of the property of people who had NOTHING to do with the death.

Lock up the "mourners," too.

Posted by Barbara 2013-03-14 14:07|| 2013-03-14 14:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Another son for Obama?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-03-14 14:37|| 2013-03-14 14:37|| Front Page Top

#12 According to the local NBC affiliate, rioting entered its third night last night, with 46 arrested.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-14 15:00|| 2013-03-14 15:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Watched the Video, That's right , arrest the noisy troublemakers, FIRST.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-03-14 15:56|| 2013-03-14 15:56|| Front Page Top

#14

Dude was a documented gang member. They're giving him the "full Trayvon" - with cute pix from his childhood

Amazing how being a thug and getting righteously gunned down takes years off your age.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-03-14 16:23|| 2013-03-14 16:23|| Front Page Top

#15 The sergeant who shot Gray is black and the officer is Hispanic, the Post learned yesterday.

CRACKERS!!!

Posted by Dopey Sinatra9196 2013-03-14 17:31|| 2013-03-14 17:31|| Front Page Top

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