December 21, 2014
By Tevor Hughes
The suspect identified in the shooting (click here) of two New York City police officers shot his ex-girlfriend in the Baltimore area early Saturday before posting on her Instagram account and other social media, New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a news conference.
The postings indicate Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, had a "very strong bias against" police, and are being investigated as authorities search for a motive, Bratton said.
The two officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were shot "execution-style" in their parked patrol car Saturday afternoon. Brinsley fled from the scene to a nearby subway station, where he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Bratton said....
....Police said they found a silver handgun by Brinsley's body.
The user's next post shows what appears to be a bloodstained pants leg and the caption "Never had a hot gon on your waist and blood on your shoe … you aint been through what I been through you not like me and I'm not like you."
The account was suspended shortly after the shooting.
The Instagram account is linked to Facebook user named Bleau Barracuda, who police said appears to be Brinsley....
The sincerest sympathies to the family of all the dead. The officers were obviously killed because they were in uniform, in a police cruiser and a target of a person without a future to gaze into.
It is obvious this is an assassination and it is not the way civilized people solve their problems. The reason this shooting occurred is because black men are afraid for their lives and this was the result.
The stigma attached to black men by police due to their unions and the permission it may have given to carry out excessive force within a legal methodology is just as much a problem today as before. Peaceful protests are still valid and the people within them still innocent. This was an act of a single gunman and nothing more.
By Tevor Hughes
The suspect identified in the shooting (click here) of two New York City police officers shot his ex-girlfriend in the Baltimore area early Saturday before posting on her Instagram account and other social media, New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a news conference.
The postings indicate Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, had a "very strong bias against" police, and are being investigated as authorities search for a motive, Bratton said.
The two officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were shot "execution-style" in their parked patrol car Saturday afternoon. Brinsley fled from the scene to a nearby subway station, where he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Bratton said....
....Police said they found a silver handgun by Brinsley's body.
The user's next post shows what appears to be a bloodstained pants leg and the caption "Never had a hot gon on your waist and blood on your shoe … you aint been through what I been through you not like me and I'm not like you."
The account was suspended shortly after the shooting.
The Instagram account is linked to Facebook user named Bleau Barracuda, who police said appears to be Brinsley....
The sincerest sympathies to the family of all the dead. The officers were obviously killed because they were in uniform, in a police cruiser and a target of a person without a future to gaze into.
It is obvious this is an assassination and it is not the way civilized people solve their problems. The reason this shooting occurred is because black men are afraid for their lives and this was the result.
The stigma attached to black men by police due to their unions and the permission it may have given to carry out excessive force within a legal methodology is just as much a problem today as before. Peaceful protests are still valid and the people within them still innocent. This was an act of a single gunman and nothing more.
