Not all people but assholes like these, certainly. As if these guys didn't have enough shit to worry about, they now have to divide their focus between this lunatic and the horde of human stupidity and ignorance that formed.
Doing this job for a long time and it never ceases to amaze me how mindless and plain fucking dumb some people can be. Placing themselves, their families and these officers in harms way just to see bloodshed.
<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">In NYPD shooting, many witnesses follow the chase.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: 8pt">By DEEPTI HAJELA
Associated Press / August 12, 2012</span>
<span style="font-size: 8pt">In this Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012 photo provided by Lincoln Rocha via The New York Times, police and a man wielding an 11-inch knife confront each other in New York's Times Square. The man, identified as Darrius Kennedy of Hempstead, N.Y., and a native of South Carolina, was shot and killed by police a few blocks further downtown. According to the police, Kennedy had been smoking marijuana near the military recruiting station in Times Square about 3 p.m., Saturday when officers first approached. It was the beginning of an encounter that would stretch for seven of the most crowded blocks in New York City in the middle of the afternoon. At one point, Kennedy lunged at police and two officers shot him in the torso, police said. (AP Photo/Lincoln Rocha via The New York Times) </span>
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NEW YORK (AP)</span></span> — Lincoln Rocha had just taken some photographs of his wife while they visited crowded Times Square on a hot summer day when he saw a man nearby start to back away from police officers who were talking to him.
When they reached out to try to grab hold of the man, Rocha said, ‘‘He just went for his knife.’’ The officers went for their guns, and Rocha went for his camera.
‘‘When I saw the officers draw their guns, I was sure they would kill him,’’ the Brazilian tourist said Sunday, the day after the man, 51-year-old Darrius Kennedy, was shot to death by police, who said he had lunged at officers with the 11-inch kitchen knife.
<span style="color: #FF0000">‘‘If they’re going to kill him, I want to take some pictures, I want to record it,’’ Rocha said.</span>
Kennedy was smoking marijuana near the military recruiting station in Times Square about 3 p.m. Saturday when officers first approached, police said. It was the beginning of an encounter that would stretch for seven of the most crowded blocks in New York City in midafternoon and end a few minutes later with 12 gunshots and many witnesses.
As officers spoke to Kennedy, he became agitated, pulled out an 11-inch knife and began to put a bandanna on his head, police said. He ignored repeated orders to drop the knife and began backing away from them, continuing for blocks as he waved the knife and drew many officers into a slow-speed pursuit that itself lured onlookers.
Rocha said the unusual scene was the first time he had ever seen anything like it in any of his several visits to New York City.
‘‘You see something like this, you want to record it,’’ he said. And in Times Square, crowded with countless tourists, street vendors and New Yorkers, many others apparently felt the same way.
Though Rocha stayed put, held back by his wife’s insistence, the others following the chase pulled out cellphones to capture footage and, in some cases, offer commentary.
‘‘They’re going to shoot you, boy,’’ a man’s voice is heard yelling on a video that an onlooker provided to The New York Times.
Numerous officers can be seen going down the street in another video on the website of the New York Daily News.
According to the police, officers pepper-sprayed Kennedy six times but he held onto the knife throughout, wiping the spray off his face. Finally, he lunged at police and two officers shot him in the torso, police said.
In one video segment, police cars with sirens blaring pull up as gunshots are heard. Officers moved quickly to corral onlookers.
Kennedy was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
<span style="color: #FF0000">Rocha acknowledged that it made a difference that Kennedy was only holding a knife, and that there were so many officers on scene.
‘‘If it was a gun, a revolver, I don’t know that people would stay there and take pictures,’’ he said.
‘‘I just stayed because I saw he was holding a knife,’’ Rocha said. ‘‘I was behind the officers, I knew he couldn’t reach me.’’</span>
Kennedy, who lived in Hempstead, N.Y., and was a native of South Carolina, had been arrested 10 times, including seven for marijuana possession, police said. In 2008, he was taken to a hospital for observation after knocking down garbage cans in Times Square.
<span style="font-size: 8pt">© Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</span>
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Doing this job for a long time and it never ceases to amaze me how mindless and plain fucking dumb some people can be. Placing themselves, their families and these officers in harms way just to see bloodshed.
<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">In NYPD shooting, many witnesses follow the chase.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: 8pt">By DEEPTI HAJELA
Associated Press / August 12, 2012</span>
<span style="font-size: 8pt">In this Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012 photo provided by Lincoln Rocha via The New York Times, police and a man wielding an 11-inch knife confront each other in New York's Times Square. The man, identified as Darrius Kennedy of Hempstead, N.Y., and a native of South Carolina, was shot and killed by police a few blocks further downtown. According to the police, Kennedy had been smoking marijuana near the military recruiting station in Times Square about 3 p.m., Saturday when officers first approached. It was the beginning of an encounter that would stretch for seven of the most crowded blocks in New York City in the middle of the afternoon. At one point, Kennedy lunged at police and two officers shot him in the torso, police said. (AP Photo/Lincoln Rocha via The New York Times) </span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">
NEW YORK (AP)</span></span> — Lincoln Rocha had just taken some photographs of his wife while they visited crowded Times Square on a hot summer day when he saw a man nearby start to back away from police officers who were talking to him.
When they reached out to try to grab hold of the man, Rocha said, ‘‘He just went for his knife.’’ The officers went for their guns, and Rocha went for his camera.
‘‘When I saw the officers draw their guns, I was sure they would kill him,’’ the Brazilian tourist said Sunday, the day after the man, 51-year-old Darrius Kennedy, was shot to death by police, who said he had lunged at officers with the 11-inch kitchen knife.
<span style="color: #FF0000">‘‘If they’re going to kill him, I want to take some pictures, I want to record it,’’ Rocha said.</span>
Kennedy was smoking marijuana near the military recruiting station in Times Square about 3 p.m. Saturday when officers first approached, police said. It was the beginning of an encounter that would stretch for seven of the most crowded blocks in New York City in midafternoon and end a few minutes later with 12 gunshots and many witnesses.
As officers spoke to Kennedy, he became agitated, pulled out an 11-inch knife and began to put a bandanna on his head, police said. He ignored repeated orders to drop the knife and began backing away from them, continuing for blocks as he waved the knife and drew many officers into a slow-speed pursuit that itself lured onlookers.
Rocha said the unusual scene was the first time he had ever seen anything like it in any of his several visits to New York City.
‘‘You see something like this, you want to record it,’’ he said. And in Times Square, crowded with countless tourists, street vendors and New Yorkers, many others apparently felt the same way.
Though Rocha stayed put, held back by his wife’s insistence, the others following the chase pulled out cellphones to capture footage and, in some cases, offer commentary.
‘‘They’re going to shoot you, boy,’’ a man’s voice is heard yelling on a video that an onlooker provided to The New York Times.
Numerous officers can be seen going down the street in another video on the website of the New York Daily News.
According to the police, officers pepper-sprayed Kennedy six times but he held onto the knife throughout, wiping the spray off his face. Finally, he lunged at police and two officers shot him in the torso, police said.
In one video segment, police cars with sirens blaring pull up as gunshots are heard. Officers moved quickly to corral onlookers.
Kennedy was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
<span style="color: #FF0000">Rocha acknowledged that it made a difference that Kennedy was only holding a knife, and that there were so many officers on scene.
‘‘If it was a gun, a revolver, I don’t know that people would stay there and take pictures,’’ he said.
‘‘I just stayed because I saw he was holding a knife,’’ Rocha said. ‘‘I was behind the officers, I knew he couldn’t reach me.’’</span>
Kennedy, who lived in Hempstead, N.Y., and was a native of South Carolina, had been arrested 10 times, including seven for marijuana possession, police said. In 2008, he was taken to a hospital for observation after knocking down garbage cans in Times Square.
<span style="font-size: 8pt">© Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</span>
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