Posted on 02/20/2016 9:39:02 AM PST by Baynative
Two Brooklyn cops were shot early Saturday in a wild standoff with a man who led them on a car chase before ramming a marked patrol vehicle head-on, sources said.
Police Officer William Reddin was struck in the hip and Police Officer Andrew Yurkiw was hit in his vest at point-blank range, sources told The Post.
Reddin underwent surgery at Kings County Hospital and was in stable condition. His partner was released after treatment for a blunt-force injury, sources said.
The suspect, 34-year-old Jamal Funes of New Jersey, was shot “numerous†times and is in critical condition at Brookdale Hospital, NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton said.
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Gosh! I sure hope he gets better!/sarc
I know what can cure you of your complacency.Spend a couple of hours during the evening shift (or,better still,night shift) in the ER of Harlem Hospital or Kings County Hospital (just to name a couple).
I know this for two reasons...1) because I worked for years in the ER of Boston's largest hospital and 2) because while working there I heard many stories from one of our nurse's time working in Kings County's ER.
Yep, “Jamal”
I met her sister once, and believe me, you wouldn’t have wanted to mess with her. The sad thing is that most of the black people in New York hated the thugs, but suddenly it became politically correct (meaning approved by white liberals) to protect the thugs and hang the good people out to dry.
That’s good news. My family and I had the honor of being on a freeway overpass today to honor the memory of two Harford County Maryland Sheriff Deputies killed in the line of duty last week. The funeral procession lasted almost two hours.
A friend was an officer in the procession and he told me how much it meant to see countless thousands of people lining the route for over 40 miles.
He said every overpass was loaded with people. Folks stopped on the freeway and got out of their cars.
Officers from across the nation told him they were very heartened by the support.
We need to take out nation back. The cop ambushes must stop.
I got news for you: regular patients are treated pretty much the same way in Brooklyn hospitals. The Caribbean nurses are about as empathetic as stone statues; some are downright abusive. I had some major surgery in a Brooklyn hospital about 12 years ago. Looking back, I consider myself lucky to have made it out of there alive. My surgeon was great, but the nurses were horrible. You have to wonder why they chose nursing as a career. Right out of the recovery room, I was wheeled roughly by a black orderly into an elevator, where he bumped the gurney a couple of times, causing me excruciating pain. He then wheeled me into a room and expected me to move myself into the bed without any assistance from him. After I painfully got into the bed by slowly crawling off the gurney, a woman entered the room and started screaming I was in her bed! The orderly did not assist me to get back onto the gurney, even when I was in terrible pain and could barely move. He wheeled me over to the other bed and again expected me to get off the gurney and into the bed myself. I vomited after being given Percoset--they had me sleeping under the same vomit-stained blanket for 3 days! There was sharp edged medical waste left on the floor. The room trash cans were not emptied. The Caribbean nurses screamed at me for pushing the call button too often, even though it was mostly for my new roommate, who had no legs and could not reach the call button. And then the hospital didn't want to discharge me after a week, even after I told them I was going to stay in the home of a doctor friend. I left anyway. I'm sure I was safer elsewhere than that hospital. So go tell me about hospitals in Brooklyn---been there, done that.
Rivers have been used throughout history to define borders; that certainly comes in handy today. These aren’t massive rivers, but they are wide enough with fast enough currents to deter perps swimming across.
My issue is that even with the police presence, these attacks are still happening. Over the last couple of years, it seems those same police are the targets as well.
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