Posted on 03/25/2024 6:56:58 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
NYPD cop shot in stomach, killed by career criminal during traffic stop in Queens: sources
An NYPD officer was shot and killed by a career criminal during a traffic stop in Queens on Monday evening, according to law enforcement sources.
The 34-year-old suspect, who has 21 prior arrests, shot through the window of the vehicle while seated in a passenger seat, striking the uniformed officer in the stomach around 5:50 p.m. near 19-19 Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, the sources said.
The bullet hit the 31-year-old officer under his police vest, sources said.
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1st degree assault can get you 25 years, what is he doing serving only 3? Or was it just a charge and he was in prison waiting for trial?
NYPD should go on strike until the city allows them to enforce the law again.
Probably released because “muh raycisms” or something like that.
Hey NYC! How did that work out hiring a former NY cop as mayor?
I guess the police union won’t endorse Adams in the next election.
Sorry for the cop and his family.
Effing bastards are running the asylum.
Yep, to hell with that city especially the city council that wants to dismantle the NYPD and replace it with social workers. Show them just how that would work out even for a day.
Honestly, unless youre one of the dirty ones, why would anybody work for city of New York police, or any nyc job for that matter?
How can a guy with 21 previous arrests get a gun? I thought background checks were supposed to keep this from happening.
Put the criminals away! It's not that complicated.
Blue flu. Maybe they shouldn’t waste their time on routine traffic stops. Just use the loudspeaker and tell them to drive safer. No citations. Starve the city of easy revenues. Only arrest the obvious criminals engaged in crimes against other people, not crimes against city ordinances.
Gun laws are useless. The criminals always find a workaround. When things get much worse and America becomes a dystopian wasteland, the sheeple will ready to surrender their guns. The criminals will then feast on what remains.
That’s a hulluva run to get from Far Rockaway to Jamaica Hospital. St. John’s Episcopal is right there.
RE: Only in prison for 3 years and out to shoot an innocent police officer....
When Rudy Giuliani was Mayor I remember a chief of NYPD interviwed saying “One major reason crime is down is many of the criminals who used to commit the violent crimes are in prison on mandatory sentences now and are not outside to commit crimes.”
So simple but that escapes the woke Dem voters today.
The urban dwellers all over the country and especially NYC and Chicago believe they are safe, above the law, can go around with a chip on their shoulder and owe it to themselves to shoot cops or people “who don’t look like me.”
If they feel like shooting someone, they just do it.
Most cities used to make a big event with all officers in uniform to show solidarity over a police death.
Then the usual criminals were worried about bearing the wrath for the one who did it.
However, I clearly remember one City of Detroit story “The police have learned that the reason the accused suspect went out and shot and killed the officer is he wanted a gun quickly and he said he knew that police carry guns. He wanted the gun.”
Was he even a real cop? A street cop?
he worked on computers. A house mouse.
I didn't see a 25 year sentence in the NY Post article. Where did you hear that? I looked up Rivera in the NY State DOCS system online. The first degree assault charge was a Class C felony. He was given a maximum sentence of 3 Years, 6 Months, 0 Days, and had to serve the maximum. No early out. And when he got out, there was no post-incarceration supervision required. The sale of a criminal substance charge was a Class B felony. He was given a maximum sentence of 6 years, and served all six, getting out in 2021. He had a parole interview date in September of 2020. If the interview occurred, there is no record of its outcome. For this crime he was on post-incarceration supervision until 06/28/2022.
One has to wonder what this guy was doing between his first bid, and his second bid. Was he known to the cops, had charges that were dropped, or not pursued? Plenty of people get away with multiple crimes if they're not actually charged.
There are three different kinds of sentencing in NY...Determinate (a specific number of years), Indeterminate (5-10 years), and Life Sentence. In reality, except in certain circumstances, there is no such thing as doing life in NY State prisons. There is always a possibility that someone with a life sentence can be released.
The way it was before I retired from NY State Correctional Services, an inmate had to do two-thirds of his sentence before he could be eligible for release. Nobody goes to prison unless they have already been sentenced. Anyone given a sentence of a year or over, go to a State prison. Anyone sentenced below that usually serve their time in jail.
When the Gov and Mayor show up to the funeral, lets hope the cops give it to them....better yet, lets hope the family tell the mayor and gov to F-off and not show up
That’s what I thought. No way that punk was manhandling bad guys.
Put the criminals away! It’s not that complicated.
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Here’s all that needs to be said: Every normally sane person KNOWS that the killings will continue until the killers, immediately upon apprehension, are tried, sentenced to death, and executed within hours or days of their arrest. And the same applies to terrorists.
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