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Officer's killer had ranted about police killing and abusing
Ex-con latest attack against law enforcement officers
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New York Police Department officer Miosotis Familia is memorialized before the start of a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays in New York Wednesday. Familia was killed in an "unprovoked attack," in the Bronx borough of New York, according to the NYPD Commissioner. - photo by Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A killer who strode up to a mobile police command post and put a bullet in an officer's head Wednesday had ranted in a Facebook video last September about law officers killing and abusing people and warned them to leave him alone or "we gonna do something.""I'm not playing, Mr. Officer. I don't care about 100 police watching this," 34-year-old ex-convict Alexander Bonds said, adding: "It's time for people to wisen up."Ten months later, Bonds went up to the RV-like command post in the Bronx and ambushed Officer Miosotis Familia, shooting her through the passenger side window as she wrote in her notebook around 12:30 a.m.Police Commissioner James O'Neill said Familia was "assassinated in an unprovoked attack on cops."Familia's partner frantically radioed for help, and officers caught up with Bonds about a block away and killed him in a hail of about 20 bullets when he pulled a stolen revolver, police said. He didn't get off a shot, authorities said.
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