Outrage In Short Supply When Cop is Victim-NYPD Officer Dead at 25
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The NYPD and police officers all over the country are grieving today after an heroic police officer who had been shot in the face by an ex-con died after a valiant two day struggle to stay alive.
From NewYorkDailyNews:
Officer Brian Moore is the first cop killed in the line of duty since December, when officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were executed by a cop-hating maniac as they sat in their patrol car.
Moore, who was 25 and part of a cop family, died at Jamaica Hospital.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton arrived at the hospital after word of Moore’s death leaked out.
Earlier, a distraught woman and two grim-faced officers bearing a dress uniform and a pair of polished shoes were seen at the hospital.
Moore’s death means that Demetrius Blackwell will likely face a murder charge for gunning down the plainclothes police officer in Queens Village, the sources said.
Blackwell, a 35-year-old self-described “hell-raiser” and a cousin of former Giants cornerback Kory Blackwell, has a lengthy rap sheet — and a prior history of attacking cops.
Moore was driving an unmarked police car around 6 p.m. Saturday when he and partner Erik Jansen, 30, pulled up behind Blackwell, whom they had spotted “adjusting an object in his waistband,” Bratton said earlier.
The doomed cop identified himself as a police office and asked, according to a source, “Do you have something in your waistband?”
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Blackwell responded: “Yeah, I got something.”
Then he whipped out a gun fired two or three shots into the officers’ car at the corner of 212th St. and 104th Road, police said.
Moore was hit in the cheek but Jansen escaped injury.
Blackwell, who has nine prior arrests, including two for assaulting cops, was nabbed 90 minutes later.
“This was nothing more and nothing less than a cold-blooded attempt at an assassination of New York’s finest,” Assistant District Attorney Peter McCormack said earlier, at Blackwell’s earlier arraignment.
With Dale W. Eisinger
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