I am going to NYC in the few days. I'll keep these stories in mind.
I wish the NYC had liberal gun laws because I would be packing but then again, they'll just give them a reason to shoot me instead of choking me or beating the hell out of me.
Oh BTW, the Bloods in Jersey City are going against Jersey City police for shooting down two brothers...how come no gangstas in NYC going against the police there? Where the streets at?
The first police shooting
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index..._shot_by_police.html
Authorities have released the identity of the 20-year-old man who died Tuesday night after he was shot by a Jersey City police officer during a scuffle earlier in the day.
Lavon King, of Jersey City, was shot in the chest by a police officer after he struggled with the officer in the backyard of an Ege Avenue home, Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Gene Rubino said in a statement.
King, who according to Rubino, had several open warrants, died at 8:54 p.m. after undergoing surgery at Jersey City Medical Center.
The investigation is being conducted by the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's homicide unit, which is standard protocol whenever there is a police-involved shooting, Rubino added.
According to the HCPO's preliminary investigation, a pair of Jersey City police officers from the Emergency Services Unit spotted King on Kearney Avenue at approximately 4:30 p.m. While one officer pursued him on foot, another followed in a police vehicle, Rubino said.
King was tracked to the Ege Avenue backyard, where he entered an unlocked shed, Rubino said.
As one of the officers entered the shed with his firearm drawn, King struggled with the officer and "attempted to disarm" him, Rubino added.
At that point, the officer fired one round, striking the 20-yeard-old in his chest, Rubino said.
Earlier today, a woman recounted the incident, having heard the gunfire from her window nearby.
"It happened really quickly," said the woman, who only provided her first name, Yvette. "I heard two gunshots, they sounded like firecrackers. Then I heard a man say, 'Why did you shoot me?'"
Yvette then looked out her window into the yard of 105 Ege Ave. and says she heard the police respond, "You shouldn't have been wrestling with us."
Rubino added that King had five open cases in Superior Court for drugs and theft, as well as a pending violation of probation.
The HCPO did not disclose the status of the police officer who shot King, nor did it release any additional information about incident.
http://www.theblaze.com/storie...icers-in-new-jersey/
“The Cops targeted are those who are working the DOT skyway Detail single man unit,” the memo states. “In addition to shooting a Police Officer, members of the BLOODS will attack and shoot Jersey City EMTs because they know the Police Officers will respond immediately to their back-up.”
The memo calls on members specifically in Camden and Newark. It concludes, citing a reliable source, that “the BLOODS will not stop” until the National Guard is called in.
The Hudson County View reported that a source — who remained anonymous because the source isn’t authorized to speak on the matter — told the paper that the memo is authentic.
WABC-TV in New York ran a report about a similar memo but didn’t reveal the name of the gang; the station noted that other documents suggest gang members are stashing automatic weapons in abandoned buildings, possibly in preparation for a police-related attack.
Jersey City Public Safety Director Jim Shea said the threat isn’t credible and has been taken out of context.
“What happened here is one member of our force put the threat out on social media where it was viewed by people who do not have the context to view it and judge it for what it is and they took it at face value,” Shea said, according to NJ.com, citing an interview with The Jersey Journal.
Shea also questioned the ability of the Bloods to carry out such an attack. ”The idea that they are an organized group that could send people from city to city is ridiculous,” he said. “Anybody I’ve ever met who self identifies himself as a Blood is lucky he could tie his shoes, at a mental level.”
While the alleged call to gang members outside Jersey City reportedly stems from the shooting death of 20-year-old Lavon King, WABC said, who was killed during a struggle with Jersey City police late last month, tensions have seemingly spiked since Officer Santiago’s murder last weekend.
Santiago was killed while responding to reports of an armed robbery early Sunday at a 24-hour drug store.
Authorities said the suspect, 27-year-old Lawrence Campbell, grabbed a security guard’s gun and waited for police to arrive before opening fire. Campbell was then killed by police. The suspect reportedly told a witness to watch the news because he was “going to be famous.”
A wake for Officer Santiago is scheduled for Thursday afternoon and his funeral is scheduled for Friday morning.
‘Thug in Peace’: Sidewalk Memorial for Cop Killer Angers Police
Emotions heightened further after the creation of sidewalk memorial to Campbell in his neighborhood with slogans such as “Thug in Peace.” Mayor Steven Fulop ordered the display taken down: “I am not going to let a few residents pretend like they express the views of a great city like Jersey City,” he said, NJ.com reported.
Angelique Campbell, Campbell’s widow, told News 12 New Jersey on Sunday she was sorry for Santiago’s family but her husband should have killed more officers if they were planning to kill him; she later apologized for her remarks.
Campbell also said she isn’t looking to restore the sidewalk memorial.
“Both families are hurt. Let this cop be laid to rest peacefully. Let Lawrence be put to rest peacefully. That’s it,” she told the Associated Press on Tuesday. “There’s no back-and-forth. I don’t want to argue with no cops, I don’t want to fight with no cops. I just want to put him in the ground, he’s gone, that’s it.”
Shooting Near Sidewalk Memorial
On Tuesday a Jersey City police officer shot a man who authorities said attacked the officer and his partner with a sharpened fence post — about a block from the Campbell memorial, NJ.comreported.
According to a preliminary investigation, two emergency services officers saw the 25-year-old man at approximately 2:30 a.m. and ordered him to drop the post, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
Authorities said the man threw the post through the vehicle’s passenger-side window, hitting an officer in the head. The man then reached through the window and grabbed the officer’s rifle, authorities said. The two struggled for the rifle, which discharged through the vehicle’s door and struck the man, officials said.
The officers exited the vehicle and ordered the man to the ground. One officer opened fire after authorities said the man refused to show his hands and hid a hand in his waistband. The man was taken to a hospital and was expected to undergo surgery for non-life-threatening injuries, the prosecutor’s office said. The man’s name has not been released. The police officers were also being treated.