“All New Yorkers should be scared, really all New Yorkers who see that should be petrified by it. It’s not just the Metro. You should be petrified walking down the street “If this is what happens when people are so emboldened.”
This is how he commented Louis Turco, president of the Benevolent Association of Lieutenants (LBANYPD), about the beating received by officer Gypsy Pichardo, attacked by two armed men on Saturday in the New York Subway in The Bronx.
“It didn’t surprise me at all and that’s what’s scary: that this happened to one of our uniformed officers.”
Louis Turco – President of the Benevolent Association of Lieutenants (LBANYPD)
The fact that the attackers were chasing a uniformed officer should worry everyone, Turco added. Photos of Pichardo after the attack show him bloodied and with one eye closed and swollen.
Ironically, two days later, on Monday another NYPD officer was beaten while trying to stop smokers on the subway, an event that was captured on video in broad daylight. In both attacks the police officers were uniformed.
Pichardo was hospitalized after responding to a Line 1 train driver’s call for help at the 238th Street station in Kingsbridge. In the scene, The Hispanic lieutenant tried to break up a fight and remove two armed provocateurs.
Authorities say the two men refused to get off the train and instead attacked Pichardo, hitting him in the face and body. The 17-year NYPD veteran and member of the Organization of Dominican Officers of New Yorkrequired stitches on his face and suffered damage to his eye, which will require follow-up with a specialist.
Other officers pursued the suspects and arrested Marquise Webb of Yonkers and Brian Innocent of New Rochelle. They were accused of half a dozen crimes and A knife, a box cutter and a razor were recovered at the scene. All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
“I wasn’t at all surprised and that’s what’s scary: that this happened to one of our uniformed officers,” Turco said, quoted by Fox News. “We’ve seen these dramatic confrontations that our officers are going through on a daily basis.”
Turco calls for severe sanctions for the alleged aggressors. “The punishment must fit the crime. “This can’t be a slap on the wrist, because if it is, the next New Yorker who doesn’t have a gun, a Taser or a uniform, God help him,” Turco said.
Since taking office in January 2022, the alcalde Eric Adams, ex NYPD, announced several times that the number of NYPD officers in the subway system would double in a reinforced security plan to confront violence in the chaotic NYC Subway. But until now The crime has continued.
Last night a passenger died after he was found bleeding from the head aboard a Metro car in Queens. On Thursday, a man was stabbed with a screwdriver on a Subway train in Midtown Manhattan. Two nights earlier, a gunman opened fire on a homeless man who apparently tried to rob a woman inside a station in Times Square.
Los Gun Arrests Inside the Chaotic New York Subway Have Increased a Staggering 94% compared to before the pandemic paralysis (2019), according to official figures.
In August the cost of the fare rose, while the MTA faces losses of $690 million dollars annually due to the number of users who access without paying, some for not having money and others for simple vandalism. “Toll” collectors have also appeared: people who open the emergency doors of the stations to let others pass in exchange for a “collaboration” in cash.
In September of this year, a Siena College survey identified crime (73%) among the biggest concerns of New Yorkers. According to another alarming survey released this summer 70% of NYC residents fear that they will be victims of a criminal act.
2023-11-15 17:34:00
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