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A bit more detail has emerged regarding the Tuesday afternoon shooting of a teen who pointed an unloaded gun at an unidentified rookie NYPD officer in Brownsville. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne tells the Times that 18-year-old Akeem Harvey was stopped by officers for a "stop-and-frisk" because he was "wearing a hat and bandanna in a way that is associated with the Crips gang." When one officer noticed Harvey's bullet holder, he allegedly ran from the cops, but stopped when his revolver dropped out of his pants leg. The NYPD says Harvey picked it up and crouched, pointing the gun at the first officer, who was about five feet away. After Harvey ignored the officer's orders to "Drop it," the cop fired once, striking the teen in the chin. According to the police spokesman, the officer acted within the department’s guidelines; Harvey is listed in stable condition in Brookdale University Hospital.
Cop's Shooting of Armed Teen Was Justified, NYPD Says
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Once again... do not put your gun where it can slide down your pant leg.
Yeah, and don't point your unloaded weapon at someone with a loaded one.
That's an important one.
I guess that whole carrying a weapon thing worked out pretty well as a self-defense measure huh?
But he be a gangsta!!! It be all about image!!!
what's a bullet holder?
It was probably a speed loader. It's a plastic cylinder that holds 6 bullets by the bottom. You use it to place all 6 rounds in the gun at once. There is a little knob on the back that releases them. This is what they look like:
Oh so the little thug is still alive? What a shame. He'll live to shoot again some other day.
Exactly. .357 or .45ACP >> 9mm
Bigger bullets don't mean anything if you can't hit what you're aiming at.
Shot placement is key.
Wait...the cop was 5 feet away and shot him in the chin? Who shoots someone in the chin? WTF? Jack Bauer would have handled this much better.
he may have just been trying to knock him out.
Because Jack Bauer is a real person. :o
Attempted Suicide By Cop?
Maybe he forgot it was unloaded. In any case, Bizarre.
I think there should be more attention paid to the cop who dropped his cellphone and decided to break off pursuit to go and pick it up, missing the whole encounter.
Great job by the cops. A guy, more than likely, who is a scum of the earth gangbanger, is carrying a illegal gun and gets shot by cops. IF this unproductive gangbanger was not stopped by the NYPD he would have probably ended up robbing one of your family members OR hurting some innocent person for gang initiation....then people would say, 'the cops are never around when a thug robs us'.
Well there you have it...the cops were around before this thug used his illegal gun on an innocent person.
Will Akeem Harvey be writing a trust check to pay those medical bills or whip out his AMEX Black Card?