ER nurse beaten with cane in unprovoked attack inside Bronx subway station
BUT, WHAT IF??…
…ONE CAN IMAGINE THE CAREFULLY ‘CROPPED’ PHOTO THE MEDIA WOULD SHOW US AS THEY REPORTED HOW THIS ASSAILANT WAS ‘GUNNED DOWN’ BY AN OFF-DUTY POLICEMAN AS HE ATTACKED AN ER NURSE IN A SUBWAY STATION.
…OF COURSE, IN THIS CASE, HE WAS NOT ‘GUNNED DOWN’ DURING HIS UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON THE 53 YEAR OLD NURSE. HE IS ON THE LOOSE AND POLICE HOPE THAT SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HIM, SEEING THE PHOTO, WILL REPORT HIM.
…LUCKY FOR BOTH HIM AND THE POLICE…UNLUCKY FOR THE VICTIM.
It’s not hard to imagine the aftermath of a different scenario, however.
What is most likely to have followed if the cane wielding attacker had been confronted in the process, and, in self defense if attacked, a white police officer had to shoot him rather than take a beating, be disabled and perhaps have his gun stolen?
In today’s anti-police, faux-racist hysteria, most likely this guy would be portrayed as one more victim of racist police behavior toward black men.
Joe Biden would what to know why the officer did not show some ‘better judgement’ …”why didn’t he ‘tase’ him, or just shoot him in the leg?”
Family members of the assailant will tell reporters that the officer didn’t attempt to “de-escalate the situation”; other close family members will say their beloved relative suffered from a ‘severe mental impairment and the officer was typically, in the case of a black man, too quick to use the most lethal measure he could, instead of attempting to subdue the attacker with a lesser means.”
And, of course, the Reverend Al will tell a hastily organized ‘impromptu’ press conference how the nurse had initiated the confrontation with a barrage of racial epithets.
Flowers and teddy bears will quickly appear at the site of the incident along with notes of sympathy and tributes to the one time ‘choir boy’, who aspired to be a doctor, his life cut tragically short.
It would be noted that the nurse was released from the ER within hours and was able to return to her job in the Emergency Room the next morning. “How serious could the attack have been?”, they’ll ask.
Marches will be held throughout the nation, the name of the latest victim of ‘police racism’ to be added to the ‘tragically growing record’.
The family will receive a substantial, but undisclosed, sum from the city. Mourners will note that, however much the family received can never be enough for what was taken from them by the systemic racism, rampant in this country. dlh
“An emergency room nurse heading home from her shift over the weekend was brutally beaten with a cane inside a Bronx subway station in an unprovoked attack, police said Monday. Irina Langdon, 53, was on the mezzanine in the 149th St.-Grand Concourse No. 4 line station about 11:45 p.m. on Saturday when a man attacked her without warning, cops said. He struck her multiple times with a cane in the head, arms and ribs.” (N.Y.Daily News)
