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[Slapchop]

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">Man jailed for stabbing NYPD officer in head sues city.</span></span>

By MITCHEL MADDUX

Last Updated: 6:12 PM, June 6, 2011

Posted: 6:11 PM, June 6, 2011

That’s nerve!

A man sentenced to 20 years in prison for stabbing an NYPD officer in the head with a hunting knife — penetrating his skull and driving the blade into his brain — is suing the city, claiming the incident would never have happened if officers had followed proper procedures.

Hugo Antonio Hernandez, who pleaded guilty to plunging the six inch-long blade 1/4-inch into the officer’s brain, is acting as his own lawyer in the Brooklyn federal court case. He claims he was beaten by responding officers.

The incident began when Officer Angel Cruz Jr., a Marine Corps and Iraq War veteran, stopped Hernandez and his friend to issue them tickets for smoking on a Brooklyn subway platform in March 2007.

Hernandez, 27, told the jury in opening statements today that as the officer began to frisk him for weapons he panicked because he thought he was about "to be executed."

Cruz, who returned to the force but still suffers from memory loss as a result of the attack, opened fire after being stabbed, striking Hernandez four times.

Under questioning by city attorneys, Hernandez admitted that prior to the assault he had been "diagnosed as homicidal and suicidal" and later deemed to be "a manic depressive with psychotic features" who believed he was on a "mission from God" to wipe out oppression in the world.

Hernandez countered that other cops responding to the Broadway Junction subway station in East New York punched his face, broke his ankle, spit on him, and twisted his finger — all after he was handcuffed and lying on the ground.

He also charges in his $45 million civil rights suit that the incident could have been averted if Cruz had followed procedure and requested back-up officers.

 

[Sean the Nailer]

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The only thing the cop is guilty of after he "opened fire after being stabbed, striking Hernandez four times." is that he didn't 'finish' the job.

sad,

 

[ORD]

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Yep...one additional, well-placed round from the officer could have saved society a whole lot of trouble and the taxpayers of NYC a whole lot of time and money defending that frivolous $HIT!!

 

[match308]

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Most New Yorkers will be for the perp. A lesson to all on shot placement.

 

[SledDog]

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I'm sure Bloomberg is already looking for a way to use this for more anti-gun crap. "See, they don't even work..."

 

[Tengu]

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Well butter my butt and call me butter cup. Not only did a man get stabbed in the head, but the assailant got shot four times and lived to tell the tale. Just goes to show that there just ain't no gurantess in life, only possibiities.
Truely hope the Officer gets well soon, and the criminal needs some counseling. Looks like he ate one to many disco biscuits in the heat of Russian disputation.

 

[144:1]

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You all talk about shot placement??? I think he did a damn fine job putting 4 rounds on target after being stabbed in the freaking brain!!!! Give that guy a medal for being harder than wood pecker lips. That guys punishment in addition to jail time should be to have the same problems this officer has. To bad we are to liberal to carry it out.

Drill + Convicts head = memory loss

 

[match308]

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If those had been 4 head shots.........
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jihad-Stomper2001</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You all talk about shot placement??? I think he did a damn fine job putting 4 rounds on target after being stabbed in the freaking brain!!!! Give that guy a medal for being harder than wood pecker lips. That guys punishment in addition to jail time should be to have the same problems this officer has. To bad we are to liberal to carry it out.

Drill + Convicts head = memory loss
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[SeanRT]

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If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times:

Crucifixion is the answer!

 

[ArcticLight]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sean the Nailer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The only thing the cop is guilty of after he "opened fire after being stabbed, striking Hernandez four times." is that he didn't 'finish' the job.

sad,
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Agreed, HOWEVER - the fact that he had been s tabbed in the head and still put 4 into the suspect is amazing...

Bipolar/psychotic tendencies. We as a society have a problem, we're afraid to institutionalize people like that. We should....3 credible witnesses and off to the looney bin with them.

 

[nock]

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These types of lawsuits are the reason the court system is all screwed up...

 

[Bolt_Overide]

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Sad part is, the city will probably settle, so this scum bag ends up getting paid.

 

[144:1]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ArcticLight</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sean the Nailer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The only thing the cop is guilty of after he "opened fire after being stabbed, striking Hernandez four times." is that he didn't 'finish' the job.

sad,
</div></div>

Agreed, HOWEVER - the fact that he had been s tabbed in the head and still put 4 into the suspect is amazing...

Bipolar/psychotic tendencies. We as a society have a problem, we're afraid to institutionalize people like that. We should....3 credible witnesses and off to the looney bin with them.

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We are afraid to institutionalize people???? No we are not and far from it actually!! The states are broke and dont have the money to keep these people off the street. So who has to deal with it? The police and the jails, costing us the tax payer 5 to 10 times more than it would of just to keep the institutes funded. Its the politicians that are to blame, but in the end we are to blame because we continue to keep them in their seats of power. There didnt use to be career politicians. Most did their term and went back to whatever lives they had before. Not anymore. Its sad when you think about it.

 

[Sean the Nailer]

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Allow me to re-iterate and explain further:

My comment was first to re-reinforce the statement that "the wounded in the head officer" was able to not only react, but to draw his weapon, aim it at the "alleged assailant", and fire it. And fire it 3 more times!

That, in itself, is commendable at the very least.

Second, the "alleged assailant" was hit 4 times, and didn't die.

That is what is sad.

The fact that I slid in the comment of "the cop being guilty of..." was intended to be an ironic twist to the fact that he is being charged. And with ABSOLUTE CRAP.

 

[The Mechanic]

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It doesn't get any better with this news today.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43309464/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
Sheriff's deputy shot dead, wife goes into labor
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sheriff's deputy shot dead, wife goes into labor
Deputy Wyman, who served in Iraq as a U.S. Marine, was responding to domestic dispute

KNOXBORO, N.Y. — A sheriff's deputy in upstate New York died overnight Tuesday after being shot at the end of a six-hour standoff, and his wife went into labor with their second child upon hearing the news, local media reported.

Deputy Kurt Wyman, 24, died after being rushed to a Utica hospital following the shootout around 2 a.m. Tuesday inside a garage in the rural hamlet of Knoxboro, Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol said eight hours after the incident.

Sheriff's spokesman Lt. James McCarthy told the Observer-Dispatch the couple has one child together, and that the deputy's wife, named in the report as Lauren, went into labor with the couple's second child upon hearing her husband had been shot.

WKTV reported that members of Wyman's church received a text message Tuesday morning with the news of Wyman's death and his wife's labor.

The station said family and many law enforcement members had gathered at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, the hospital where Wyman died in surgery, the Dispatch reported, citing McCarthy.

Maciol said Wyman joined the sheriff's department in October 2007 and spent a year deployed in Iraq with a Marine Corps Reserve unit before returning to the police agency in 2009.

'Family was certainly No. 1'
"Deputy Wyman was an exceptional public servant who served his country and who served his county with pride, and he will be greatly missed," Maciol said, according to the Dispatch. "Family was certainly No. 1 with him." A Facebook profile apparently belonging to Lauren Wyman showed a pregnant woman smiling as she took a self-portrait photo; a page under Kurt Wyman's name showed a picture of a toddler — The Dispatch reported the couple also has an 18-month-old son — whose face was smudged with the evidence of a messy meal.

Survivors also include Wyman's parents and a sister.

As for the suspect in the case, Maciol alleged 40-year-old Christian Patterson shot Wyman once with a shotgun as officers tried to take him into custody around 2 a.m. ET.

The sheriff said three other officers returned fire and hit Patterson several times. He was in critical condition at the same hospital where Wyman died. Six-hour standoff
Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara said at a press conference that he intends to charge Patterson with aggravated murder, WKTV reported.

"The only punishment for it is life imprisonment without parole," he said, according to the station, adding that the office would file charges at an appropriate time pending Patterson's release from the hospital. Officials said Patterson had surgery Tuesday morning.

Maciol said Wyman and Deputy Mark Chrysler arrived at Patterson's home around 8 p.m. Monday after his live-in girlfriend called 911 and reported he was threatening to kill her and himself. The sheriff said Shannon Secor fled to a neighbor's home and was unharmed.

Patterson held the deputies at bay while other law enforcement officers arrived and tried to get him to surrender. Maciol says the officers rushed Patterson six hours later when he indicated he was going to harm himself. The sheriff refused to release any other details about the circumstances of the shootings.

Knoxboro is a tiny rural crossroads in the town of Augusta, a farming community of 2,000 residents about 30 miles southeast of Syracuse. </div></div>

 

[Tommyquest]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: The Mechanic</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It doesn't get any better with this news today.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43309464/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
Sheriff's deputy shot dead, wife goes into labor
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sheriff's deputy shot dead, wife goes into labor
Deputy Wyman, who served in Iraq as a U.S. Marine, was responding to domestic dispute

KNOXBORO, N.Y. — A sheriff's deputy in upstate New York died overnight Tuesday after being shot at the end of a six-hour standoff, and his wife went into labor with their second child upon hearing the news, local media reported.

Deputy Kurt Wyman, 24, died after being rushed to a Utica hospital following the shootout around 2 a.m. Tuesday inside a garage in the rural hamlet of Knoxboro, Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol said eight hours after the incident.

Sheriff's spokesman Lt. James McCarthy told the Observer-Dispatch the couple has one child together, and that the deputy's wife, named in the report as Lauren, went into labor with the couple's second child upon hearing her husband had been shot.

WKTV reported that members of Wyman's church received a text message Tuesday morning with the news of Wyman's death and his wife's labor.

The station said family and many law enforcement members had gathered at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, the hospital where Wyman died in surgery, the Dispatch reported, citing McCarthy.

Maciol said Wyman joined the sheriff's department in October 2007 and spent a year deployed in Iraq with a Marine Corps Reserve unit before returning to the police agency in 2009.

'Family was certainly No. 1'
"Deputy Wyman was an exceptional public servant who served his country and who served his county with pride, and he will be greatly missed," Maciol said, according to the Dispatch. "Family was certainly No. 1 with him." A Facebook profile apparently belonging to Lauren Wyman showed a pregnant woman smiling as she took a self-portrait photo; a page under Kurt Wyman's name showed a picture of a toddler — The Dispatch reported the couple also has an 18-month-old son — whose face was smudged with the evidence of a messy meal.

Survivors also include Wyman's parents and a sister.

As for the suspect in the case, Maciol alleged 40-year-old Christian Patterson shot Wyman once with a shotgun as officers tried to take him into custody around 2 a.m. ET.

The sheriff said three other officers returned fire and hit Patterson several times. He was in critical condition at the same hospital where Wyman died. Six-hour standoff
Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara said at a press conference that he intends to charge Patterson with aggravated murder, WKTV reported.

"The only punishment for it is life imprisonment without parole," he said, according to the station, adding that the office would file charges at an appropriate time pending Patterson's release from the hospital. Officials said Patterson had surgery Tuesday morning.

Maciol said Wyman and Deputy Mark Chrysler arrived at Patterson's home around 8 p.m. Monday after his live-in girlfriend called 911 and reported he was threatening to kill her and himself. The sheriff said Shannon Secor fled to a neighbor's home and was unharmed.

Patterson held the deputies at bay while other law enforcement officers arrived and tried to get him to surrender. Maciol says the officers rushed Patterson six hours later when he indicated he was going to harm himself. The sheriff refused to release any other details about the circumstances of the shootings.

Knoxboro is a tiny rural crossroads in the town of Augusta, a farming community of 2,000 residents about 30 miles southeast of Syracuse. </div></div> </div></div>My cousin just told me about this today. He is my cousin's platoon Sgt. at their USMCR unit in Albany. Very sad to see this.

 

[jbuck88]

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Thats some sad stuff right there.

 

[rero360]

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I'd say the officer did pretty good getting four rounds on target. I worked with a fine SSG over in Iraq who got stabbed in the head with a kitchen knife by a local, he wrestled the guy down to the ground, they handed the guy over to the IPs (from what I heard is that they hung the dude) and they rushed the SSG off to the IZ, he was back in the states in like 18 hours and in surgery. He had a full recovery to from what I remember.