The war on police continues. Police Officer Is Shot and Killed in ‘Unprovoked Attack’

A two-time convict who had voiced anger at law enforcement officers in the past fatally shot a New York City officer through the window of a police vehicle early Wednesday, in what the police commissioner called an “unprovoked attack.” The gunman was killed by other officers, the police said.

The wounded officer, Miosotis Familia, 48, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was pronounced dead about three hours after the shooting.

The gunman, identified by the police as Alexander Bonds, 34, was paroled in May 2013 after serving eight years behind bars for a robbery in Syracuse, some of it in one of New York State’s most notorious prisons, Attica Correctional Facility.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/nyregion/nypd-bronx-police-shooting.html


I am glad they got him. Just because they wear the uniform. No other reason. This is bull**** and needs to stop. My heart goes out to her family.

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Agreed, this is a horrible tragedy. Prayers to her family.

It sucks that the perp was a black man--it only perpetuates more stereotypes. The black community has had generations of reasons to be suspicious, but stuff like this cannot happen. It only furthers hurts trust in communities. Had the policewoman been white, it would have turned into a racial issue in the news, too, even though this person had an issue with police just in general.

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There are 2-3 anti cops posters on here who haven't chimed in yet. :roll:

Black guys who shoot black female cops don't fit their particular agendas.


Besides that, it's a ****ing shame! From everything I have read on the lady, she was full of life, and very good to all the people she interacted with.

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Very sad. Sounds like the guy wanted to die and figured he would take some cops with him. He probably blames cops for his own failures. At least he can't hurt anyone else.

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holbritter said:

A two-time convict who had voiced anger at law enforcement officers in the past fatally shot a New York City officer through the window of a police vehicle early Wednesday, in what the police commissioner called an “unprovoked attack.” The gunman was killed by other officers, the police said.

The wounded officer, Miosotis Familia, 48, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was pronounced dead about three hours after the shooting.

The gunman, identified by the police as Alexander Bonds, 34, was paroled in May 2013 after serving eight years behind bars for a robbery in Syracuse, some of it in one of New York State’s most notorious prisons, Attica Correctional Facility.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/nyregion/nypd-bronx-police-shooting.html


I am glad they got him. Just because they wear the uniform. No other reason. This is bull**** and needs to stop. My heart goes out to her family.

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They called the attack unprovoked. I doubt that highly. I bet the guy was tired of being pissed on and told to take it. There's more to this story.

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PirateMk1 said:

They called the attack unprovoked. I doubt that highly. I bet the guy was tired of being pissed on and told to take it. There's more to this story.

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I could care less what his issue was. He's dead now, problem solved.

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PirateMk1 said:

They called the attack unprovoked. I doubt that highly. I bet the guy was tired of being pissed on and told to take it. There's more to this story.

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His own neighborhood was afraid of him.

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I was going to say there is no war on the police, but then I caught myself and realized you can reasonably argue that propaganda campaigns can be wars waged against people that fall under certain classifications to use the jargon of sociology.

Police officers, fire fighters, would be "classifications" just like "Russians," "Jews," "blacks," "women," "Republicans" and so forth.

There is a propaganda campaign being waged against the police. Primarily by liberals. Conservatives waged one against the IRS and Federal agency that dared interrogate let alone arrest a wealthy or upper-middle-class white on some charge of criminality. In fact, if you listened to the tone and rhetoric of many white conservatives about being questioned by IRS agents they sound more victimized than Jews under the Nazi reign or Black-Americans under 1930s Southern Jim Crow. :lol:

I have many different thoughts on this issue. Call it perceptions about what I see, hear, or read going on in the USA regarding this contemporary sociological phenomenon. In my perception, that is to say how I filter (everyone filters info or speeches even, through their own life experiences, bio, education etc. so it is unlikely ever 100% objective) the information coming into my brain and then reflect and or analyze it, I conclude a multiple layer of things going on. In other words I don't see issue as extremely black and white.

Why is the English society the way it is (with few cops carrying guns) and why is the Japanese society the way it is or why is Mexico's society the way it is? I don't think American society can be totally divorced from its past.

American police have a very high stress job. They deal on a daily or near daily basis with the dysfunctions in life, in people's lives, as they spill over into potentially or fully crossing that line of what is legal and illegal. Issues of domestic conflicts when one or more parties are intoxicated but may have not come too blows yet.

And people can at times get angry at cops because, contrary to the claim made about the purpose of cops, politicians have effectively made them an institution less about protecting citizens and more an institution ensuring the population remains subdued and to "know there place."

I think there are too many layers to speak about in this post.

But two layers I will mention is the long propaganda wars against black males. It's been one of the most effective and lengthy propaganda campaigns in the history of mankind I think.

That propaganda war against black males is partly (not entirely) why the consequences has resulted in more American police shot. The United States is the only country on earth (that I know of) that has news shows negatively critiquing the "classification" of "black men" or "black males." And they have black women come on the shows to negatively critique black males. Such as, "There aren't any black men to marry." Interestingly there apparently are plenty lesbian black women out-of-work that dress like male thugs are "marriage material." So, whatever stresses of "bad guy" that has been applied to police were for decades, eh more than a century, applied to black males through information since they were infants.

Another layer to this is the concept of sin. Americans by and large reject this concept today. That might be okay if their formation was from a long Japanese history and homogeneous society. But America's roots, philosophically and morally, are from Christianity and America is too heterogeneous. And there really has been nothing to adequately replace the concept of sin and virtue for the individual in the United States. The concept of sin in and-of-itself will not stop murders from happening (it usually alone can not overcome ampt up emotions in an individual), but in my view the concept of sin at minimum operates in an individual's brain like an engine warning light, or the green, yellow, and red traffic lights. More pronounced in an individual and it might work akin to vary degrees of pressure applied to the pedal of a brake on a car.