F'ing idiots.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-yo...oting-migrants-365864a5?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
When I stepped outside the Journal’s Midtown Manhattan offices shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday, I entered a crime scene. Police had blocked off the street. A helicopter circled overhead. If I had left an hour earlier, I might have been sprayed by a stray bullet—as an innocent tourist a few blocks over had been.
It was my second close run in a week. The previous Saturday evening, a man standing a few feet from me on a street corner was sucker-punched in the head. There but for the grace of God go I and every New Yorker.
According to media accounts of Thursday night’s shooting, a security guard at a Times Square sporting-goods store confronted a trio of young migrant men who were shoplifting. One pulled out a gun and fired at the guard, missing but striking a Brazilian tourist in the leg.
One of the three stayed behind, but the shooter and his other friend ran off. Cops captured the friend. The gunman, however, kept running and shot at the pursuing officers on the block adjacent to the Journal before ducking into a subway entrance. Fortunately, he missed and didn’t hit any bystanders.
Police on Friday afternoon hunted down and arrested the suspected shooter, a 15-year-old Venezuelan migrant who had been staying at a hotel that was converted into a migrant shelter. He is also a suspect in a gunpoint robbery and another shooting incident in Midtown Manhattan last month, according to police.
He is being held without bail. Maybe prosecutors learned a lesson from the public uproar after migrants who were filmed allegedly kicking two police officers in Times Square last month were released. One of them reportedly had two prior arrests for assaulting retail employees who had tried to stop him from shoplifting.
A Concrete Jungle Where Bad Dreams Are Made Of
Migrants have learned that there’s nothing they can’t do in New York, from shoplifting to assault.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-yo...oting-migrants-365864a5?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
When I stepped outside the Journal’s Midtown Manhattan offices shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday, I entered a crime scene. Police had blocked off the street. A helicopter circled overhead. If I had left an hour earlier, I might have been sprayed by a stray bullet—as an innocent tourist a few blocks over had been.
It was my second close run in a week. The previous Saturday evening, a man standing a few feet from me on a street corner was sucker-punched in the head. There but for the grace of God go I and every New Yorker.
According to media accounts of Thursday night’s shooting, a security guard at a Times Square sporting-goods store confronted a trio of young migrant men who were shoplifting. One pulled out a gun and fired at the guard, missing but striking a Brazilian tourist in the leg.
One of the three stayed behind, but the shooter and his other friend ran off. Cops captured the friend. The gunman, however, kept running and shot at the pursuing officers on the block adjacent to the Journal before ducking into a subway entrance. Fortunately, he missed and didn’t hit any bystanders.
Police on Friday afternoon hunted down and arrested the suspected shooter, a 15-year-old Venezuelan migrant who had been staying at a hotel that was converted into a migrant shelter. He is also a suspect in a gunpoint robbery and another shooting incident in Midtown Manhattan last month, according to police.
He is being held without bail. Maybe prosecutors learned a lesson from the public uproar after migrants who were filmed allegedly kicking two police officers in Times Square last month were released. One of them reportedly had two prior arrests for assaulting retail employees who had tried to stop him from shoplifting.
