http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-shot-wounded-queens-village-report-article-1.2208183

A plainclothes city cop was shot in the face in Queens Saturday when the ex-con cousin of a former New York Giant opened fire into his unmarked patrol car, authorities said.

Officer Brian Moore and his partner were driving through Queens Village when they spotted the suspect “adjusting an object in his waistband” near the corner of 212th St. and 104th Road about 6:15 p.m, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

The officers pulled up behind the suspicious man — identified as Demetrius Blackwell, the younger cousin of former Giants cornerback Kory Blackwell — and tried to question him.

Without warning, Blackwell whipped out a gun and squeezed off at least two rounds into Moore’s car, Bratton said.

“He immediately opened fire on them before they had time to get out of the vehicle,” Bratton said at a solemn Saturday night press conference.

Put more succinctly, “They were gonna stop him and he just opened up on them,” added a police source.

In a related story, Hours before a cop was shot in Queens, three people were arrested Saturday in Brooklyn after one of the men pointed a gun at cops, police said.

Two people came into the 83rd Precinct stationhouse in Bushwick and alerted cops that three people in their 30s were waving around a gun threatening pedestrians, officials said.

A team of officers, including a sergeant and two officers in plainclothes, rushed to Wilson Ave. near Palmetto St.

As the cops approached, a 29-year-old man ducked behind a parked SUV before popping back up with a gun pointed at the officers, police said.

One cop squeezed off one round at the gunman, officials said.

No one was hit, but the gunman quickly dropped his weapon, officials said.

All three people were taken into custody. Their names were not immediately disclosed.

It will make so many, like Moldyold, feel happy to wake up to this news. One of several on OPP that think open season on Police officers is a good idea.

I'm not sure if M.O. will find this to be okay, that's a bit of drama. This situation is combination of things (as I know you are aware):

1. Police response has become tactical and cold. That being said, it is a perception creating by the media-entirely. Criminals and criminal behavior use the "sappy" emotional response to create situations in which their behavior will be overlooked as a societal thing.
2. These type of tragedies will increase, since the police will be more concerned about going to jail by making a mistake.
3. In contrast, it is time to rethink how to deal with an armed criminal. Since many states, allow open carry, we will potentially become a victim by police or criminals.
4. I forsee many police officers walking away, why bother to deal with this? If everything you do, that you've been trained for is questioned at what point do you move on?

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-shot-wounded-queens-village-report-article-1.2208183

A plainclothes city cop was shot in the face in Queens Saturday when the ex-con cousin of a former New York Giant opened fire into his unmarked patrol car, authorities said.

Officer Brian Moore and his partner were driving through Queens Village when they spotted the suspect “adjusting an object in his waistband” near the corner of 212th St. and 104th Road about 6:15 p.m, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

The officers pulled up behind the suspicious man — identified as Demetrius Blackwell, the younger cousin of former Giants cornerback Kory Blackwell — and tried to question him.

Without warning, Blackwell whipped out a gun and squeezed off at least two rounds into Moore’s car, Bratton said.

“He immediately opened fire on them before they had time to get out of the vehicle,” Bratton said at a solemn Saturday night press conference.

Put more succinctly, “They were gonna stop him and he just opened up on them,” added a police source.

In a related story, Hours before a cop was shot in Queens, three people were arrested Saturday in Brooklyn after one of the men pointed a gun at cops, police said.

Two people came into the 83rd Precinct stationhouse in Bushwick and alerted cops that three people in their 30s were waving around a gun threatening pedestrians, officials said.

A team of officers, including a sergeant and two officers in plainclothes, rushed to Wilson Ave. near Palmetto St.

As the cops approached, a 29-year-old man ducked behind a parked SUV before popping back up with a gun pointed at the officers, police said.

One cop squeezed off one round at the gunman, officials said.

No one was hit, but the gunman quickly dropped his weapon, officials said.

All three people were taken into custody. Their names were not immediately disclosed.

It will make so many, like Moldyold, feel happy to wake up to this news. One of several on OPP that think open season on Police officers is a good idea.

Thank you for your reminder. MO has been very verbal with their distain for our police. And if they are offended, then they need to realize that their disrespect for those who defend law abiding citizens are highly offended with lawlessness and those who support thugs.

Yes indeed, many police officer have become tactical and cold, but it is hard to be warm and fuzzy with folk throwing rocks at you are shooting you in the face. And indeed, it is hard to hold your head up, be proud of people you serve when they are spitting on you and taunting you with names. After months of being demonized by the press.... warm and fuzzy is not something easy to conjure up.

Police, the good ones, are already looking for changes in careers. Many that I have talked with are considering counseling, teaching, and other positions to include one who says being a sanitation engineer is now commanding more respect than the law enforcement. There is no doubt that more officers will be murdered; those who could have done something to ease the relationships have failed, miserably!

Armed criminals.... now how could we disarm them when our government loose track of truck loads of weapons? Yes, truck loads. They go ..... no one knows, they could be in Mexico, they could be with ISIS, then could be in the hands of the New Black Panthers who have called for the murder of "c*****rs" as well as "cops."

Your comments are appreciated, do not take anything I said as a personal attack. And I realize that this comment is much stronger than any that I have written in a very long time. But, I feel strongly that our officers need our support and respect. Not to say each one is an angel, they are not, but I would not do or put up with what they are expected to dispassionately take in stride.