Stipulated: the death of a police officer doing the right thing is tragic.
But there’s some odd stuff going on in the NYT coverage. For example,
His death at the barrel of a semi-automatic Ruger pistol, the same kind of gun used in the 1993 shootings on the Long Island Rail Road and the sort of firearm that continues to vex the city,
“the sort of firearm that continues to vex the city”? Are there a lot of folks getting shot with semi-automatic Ruger pistols? Would it somehow have been better if the officer had been shot with a Smith and Wesson revolver? And doesn’t NYC have strict gun control laws?
One of them is believed to have stashed his revolver — an unloaded black Smith and Wesson that was jammed — in a dirty microwave oven in the kitchen, where officers found it later.
I realize I’m probably expecting a little much from the NYT, but I’d like more details on how this unloaded revolver was “jammed”.
And:
The police identified the gunman as Lamont Pride, 27, a felon who served a prison term in North Carolina and was wanted by the authorities there for a shooting in August. He was arrested on a drug charge in Brooklyn in November but released.
Isn’t that interesting? I expect we’ll be hearing more about it in the next few days.
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