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U.S. NEWS Thursday 6 July 2017
Cop killer had ranted about officers killing and abusing

By COLLEEN LONG ted with window inserts to
JENNIFER PELTZ harden them against gun-
Associated Press fire. But there are no plans
NEW YORK (AP) — The killer to do the same with the
who strode up to a mobile rolling command centers,
police command post and officials said.
put a bullet in an officer’s Bonds had been paroled
head Wednesday had in 2013 after being sen-
ranted in a Facebook video tenced to eight years in
last September about law prison for a 2005 armed
officers killing and abusing robbery in Syracuse. He
people and warned them had other arrests, includ-
to leave him alone or “we ing one in 2001, when as a
gonna do something.” teenager he was accused
“I’m not playing, Mr. Of- of attacking an officer with
ficer. I don’t care about brass knuckles.
100 police watching this,” While his Facebook page
34-year-old ex-convict Al- is filled largely with inspira-
exander Bonds said, add- tional quotes and quizzes,
ing: “It’s time for people to he alluded at times to his
wisen up.” troubled past. “Just few
Ten months later, Bonds years ago I was in the devil
went up to the RV-like Emergency personnel stand near the scene where a police officer was shot in the Bronx section house,” he noted in a New
command post in the Bronx of New York, Wednesday, July 5, 2017. Police said Officer Miosotis Familia died at a hospital Year’s Eve post thanking
and ambushed Officer early Wednesday. God and people who had
Miosotis Familia, shooting (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) helped him.q
her through the passenger- sion. Bonds was black; Fa-
side window as she wrote in milia was black and His-
her notebook around 12:30 panic, her family having
a.m. New York City Po- come from the Dominican
lice Commissioner James Republic. She apparently
O’Neill said Familia was had no previous contact
“assassinated in an unpro- with him. Still, the attack
voked attack on cops.” recalled the 2014 ambush
Familia’s partner frantically killings of two New York City
radioed for help, and offi- officers who were gunned
cers caught up with Bonds down in their cruiser by a
about a block away and man who had announced
killed him in a hail of about online moments before
20 bullets when he pulled a that he was planning to
stolen revolver, police said. shoot two “pigs” in retalia-
He didn’t get off a shot, tion for the police choke-
authorities said. The burst hold death of Eric Garner
of gunfire as the Fourth of in New York. The gunman,
July wound down was ini- 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brins-
tially mistaken by some for ley, then killed himself.
fireworks. Attorney General Jeff Ses-
Familia, 48, was a 12-year sions called Familia’s killing
veteran of the force who a “murder in cold blood.”
spent her entire career with “Sadly, it is the latest in a
the department in the high- troubling series of attacks
crime Bronx precinct. The on police officers over the
command post there had past two years. These at-
been set up and staffed tacks must stop,” he said in
around the clock since a a statement.
triple shooting in March. Bonds was caught on vid-
“She was on duty serving eo leaving a convenience
this city, protecting people, store, then moving tightly
doing what she believed along the wall, pulling a
in and doing the job she hoodie over his head and
loved,” Mayor Bill de Blasio walking purposefully to-
said. ward the command post
Police said they were trying vehicle with gloved hands,
to establish the motive for according to police. The
the shooting. video didn’t capture the
While tensions have been shooting itself but showed
running high in recent him running away with a
years between police and gun in his hand, police said.
black people around the All new patrol cars rolled
country, there was no im- out by the department
mediate indication the have bulletproof glass, and
killing had a racial dimen- older vehicles are being fit-