Did I miss something in the article or could this be another gun hating propaganda pieces.
Nowhere did I read that the suspect had a gun, so why is that even in the article?
Police Officer Shoots Man Armed With Knife in Brooklyn
By AL BAKER and ANN FARMER
Published: June 12, 2010
A police officer shot and wounded a disabled man who was wielding a knife on a Brooklyn street after the man ignored orders to drop the weapon, shook off a blast of pepper spray and kept advancing, the police said on Saturday.
The officer, who was in uniform, fired a single bullet that struck the man in the lower abdomen. A sergeant had first fired pepper spray in an attempt to defuse the encounter late Friday night, in a courtyard at 221 Linden Boulevard, between Rogers and Nostrand Avenues, in the East Flatbush neighborhood.
“It didn’t work,” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Saturday. “He continued to come towards the officers.”
The wounded man, identified by relatives as Stanley Cherenfant, 19, walks with a slight limp, and his right hand has been disabled since he suffered a stroke at birth, his family said.
Mr. Kelly, who answered questions about the shooting after an appearance at an event in a Queens park, said the man’s disability, and how it might have colored the officers’ response, were among several factors under review. “He had some issues with his right arm,” Mr. Kelly said, adding, “Whether or not that was a factor, I simply don’t know.”
The commissioner said because the shooting was still being reviewed, he could not yet say whether it was within departmental guidelines. The use of deadly physical force is permitted when there is an immediate risk of death or serious injury to a police officer or someone else.
He said that an internal investigation had begun but that the officer who fired her weapon had yet to be interviewed, as is routine in such cases to comply with prosecutors’ wishes.
Mr. Kelly could not cite the distance between the officer and Mr. Cherenfant when the shot was fired. But a man who identified himself as an uncle of Mr. Cherenfant’s, and who said he was a Chicago police officer, estimated the distance at six feet.
The man, who declined to provide his name, said he had witnessed the episode and defended the officer. “He was mad,” the man said of his nephew. “She said, ‘Stop.’ She did her job.”
The man said Mr. Cherenfant had been arguing with a cousin, who called 911 about 11:30 p.m. as the dispute escalated.
Officers from the 67th Precinct who responded were told to look for a man in a yellow shirt armed with a gun. When they arrived, three officers immediately encountered a man who said he was being chased. Then, in a courtyard area surrounded by buildings, a man in a yellow shirt appeared, holding a kitchen knife with a six-inch blade. The man who said he was Mr. Cherenfant’s uncle added that Mr. Cherenfant had the knife in his left hand and was still directing his anger at the cousin as he faced the officer.
The officer joined the force in July 2005 and it was her first on-duty shooting, the police said. She was not otherwise identified.
Mr. Cherenfant fell to the sidewalk about 10 feet from the windows of his first-floor home.
He was taken to Kings County Hospital Center, where he was listed in stable condition on Saturday, the police said. “They said that the bullet didn’t hurt anything,” said Mr. Cherenfant’s father, Stanley Rene, 50. “They said it’s in his back.”
Mr. Rene, another of his sons and some neighbors were somewhat critical of the police response. Some said they were astonished that the police had shot a man with a disability. A neighbor named Anthony, who declined to give his last name, said he was unsure if Mr. Cherenfant had swung at the officer who shot him.
Afterward, detectives did not locate a gun.
Those who know Mr. Cherenfant said he was a conscientious young man who lived with his mother and other relatives and was pursuing a high school equivalency diploma.
“Stanley is a nice youth, a nice kid,” said a neighbor, Rose Clarke, 52, who said he often helped her up and down the steps with a stroller.
The police said Mr. Cherenfant was charged with four counts of menacing — one for each officer and one for the man he had been chasing — as well as one count of possession of a weapon
Nowhere did I read that the suspect had a gun, so why is that even in the article?
Police Officer Shoots Man Armed With Knife in Brooklyn
By AL BAKER and ANN FARMER
Published: June 12, 2010
A police officer shot and wounded a disabled man who was wielding a knife on a Brooklyn street after the man ignored orders to drop the weapon, shook off a blast of pepper spray and kept advancing, the police said on Saturday.
The officer, who was in uniform, fired a single bullet that struck the man in the lower abdomen. A sergeant had first fired pepper spray in an attempt to defuse the encounter late Friday night, in a courtyard at 221 Linden Boulevard, between Rogers and Nostrand Avenues, in the East Flatbush neighborhood.
“It didn’t work,” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Saturday. “He continued to come towards the officers.”
The wounded man, identified by relatives as Stanley Cherenfant, 19, walks with a slight limp, and his right hand has been disabled since he suffered a stroke at birth, his family said.
Mr. Kelly, who answered questions about the shooting after an appearance at an event in a Queens park, said the man’s disability, and how it might have colored the officers’ response, were among several factors under review. “He had some issues with his right arm,” Mr. Kelly said, adding, “Whether or not that was a factor, I simply don’t know.”
The commissioner said because the shooting was still being reviewed, he could not yet say whether it was within departmental guidelines. The use of deadly physical force is permitted when there is an immediate risk of death or serious injury to a police officer or someone else.
He said that an internal investigation had begun but that the officer who fired her weapon had yet to be interviewed, as is routine in such cases to comply with prosecutors’ wishes.
Mr. Kelly could not cite the distance between the officer and Mr. Cherenfant when the shot was fired. But a man who identified himself as an uncle of Mr. Cherenfant’s, and who said he was a Chicago police officer, estimated the distance at six feet.
The man, who declined to provide his name, said he had witnessed the episode and defended the officer. “He was mad,” the man said of his nephew. “She said, ‘Stop.’ She did her job.”
The man said Mr. Cherenfant had been arguing with a cousin, who called 911 about 11:30 p.m. as the dispute escalated.
Officers from the 67th Precinct who responded were told to look for a man in a yellow shirt armed with a gun. When they arrived, three officers immediately encountered a man who said he was being chased. Then, in a courtyard area surrounded by buildings, a man in a yellow shirt appeared, holding a kitchen knife with a six-inch blade. The man who said he was Mr. Cherenfant’s uncle added that Mr. Cherenfant had the knife in his left hand and was still directing his anger at the cousin as he faced the officer.
The officer joined the force in July 2005 and it was her first on-duty shooting, the police said. She was not otherwise identified.
Mr. Cherenfant fell to the sidewalk about 10 feet from the windows of his first-floor home.
He was taken to Kings County Hospital Center, where he was listed in stable condition on Saturday, the police said. “They said that the bullet didn’t hurt anything,” said Mr. Cherenfant’s father, Stanley Rene, 50. “They said it’s in his back.”
Mr. Rene, another of his sons and some neighbors were somewhat critical of the police response. Some said they were astonished that the police had shot a man with a disability. A neighbor named Anthony, who declined to give his last name, said he was unsure if Mr. Cherenfant had swung at the officer who shot him.
Afterward, detectives did not locate a gun.
Those who know Mr. Cherenfant said he was a conscientious young man who lived with his mother and other relatives and was pursuing a high school equivalency diploma.
“Stanley is a nice youth, a nice kid,” said a neighbor, Rose Clarke, 52, who said he often helped her up and down the steps with a stroller.
The police said Mr. Cherenfant was charged with four counts of menacing — one for each officer and one for the man he had been chasing — as well as one count of possession of a weapon
