NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York City police officers responding to a robbery have been shot in the Bronx.
Authorities say the officers were taken to the hospital with injuries believed to be non-life threatening. It happened shortly after 10:30 p.m. Monday on East 184th Street in the Tremont section of the borough.
NYPD officials say they do not believe the officers were targeted. A manhunt for the suspects is currently underway. Both suspects are described as Hispanic men in their 20s, according to The New York Daily News.
The shooting comes just more than two weeks after two officers were gunned down in their patrol car in Brooklyn by a man who vowed online to kill “pigs.” The man later committed suicide.
The second officer was buried on Sunday.
Preliminary investigations are continuing into Monday’s shooting.
Additional reporting by TPM.
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Until the cops learn to turn their backs on violence every time someone disses them, this “us v them” thing will only get worse.
But considering how militarized the training has become and how self-perpetuating the hiring has become, it doesn’t look like compassion and tolerance are what the cops are going to shift towards.
Maybe I am wrong, but there’s been so much fomenting of “street war” talk from Rush and Beck and the rest of them on the right ever since the black fellow got elected. Their sordid work to divide our police off from The People may be irreversible for another generation.
Exactly, when they got a call on an armed robber, they should have just let it be. Live and let live, right?.
Did you comment on the wrong article, or are you really taking that position?
I’m going out on a limb here and guessing these thugs are black. Interesting. The cops need to learn to just keep on going…don’t stop…don’t get involved.