Officer Brian Moore followed his father into the New York Police Department, rose to the ranks of an elite plainclothes unit tasked with confronting the city’s most dangerous street crime and died on Monday, two days after a gunman opened fire on him in Queens.
At the time that Officer Moore, 25, was shot on Saturday evening, he was still young enough to be living in the Long Island home of his father, Raymond. Yet he was seasoned enough in the job he had been drawn to since childhood to have earned accolades from superiors and departmental medals for “meritorious” police work. He had made over 150 arrests since joining the department in July 2010.
“In his very brief career, he already proved himself to be an exceptional young officer,” the police commissioner, William J. Bratton, said in announcing Officer Moore’s death, outside Jamaica Hospital Medical Center on Monday.
“I did not know this officer in person in life,” Mr. Bratton added. “I’ve only come to know him in death.”
What an incredible shame. Brian Moore was way too young to die. He was doing everything right.
I am going to say what many in the real media have failed to say–Every day police officers go out to do a job. They don’t know if they will ever come home. They don’t usually deal with the good guys. Most of the times they deal with the dregs of society who have made crime an avocation.
One more thing–the shooter had an illegal gun from “down south.” Stay tuned. Maybe it’s too easy to buy guns if criminals are buying them for other criminals and those guns are used to kill cops.
No sooner do we bury Brian Moore on Long island, and we get two more dead officers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. They were shot on Saturday night during a routine traffic stop in the center of town, and both died in hospital. Two Black men have been identified as suspects and are on the lam. After shooting the cops, they stole the police cruiser and then abandoned it elsewhere in town. People are being asked to stay indoors until they get an all clear from the authorities. This is the first police slaying in Hattiesburg (Pop. 50,000) since 1984.
There are now 4 people involved. One of them looked like a very ugly woman.
Right now I am on the war path at Ms. Mosby for appearing on the state with Prince. Angry post to follow.