Another US policeman shot dead

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Gulf Daily News Monday, 22nd December 2014
WORLD
Another US
policeman
shot dead
n Danielle Pinckney and her son, Rashid Pinckney, five, leave
candy canes at an impromptu memorial near the site where the
two police officers were killed in the Brooklyn borough of New
York, yesterday
TAMPA: a veteran Florida
ley, who was black, shot and
killed two officers as they sat
in their patrol car near a major
housing project.
“Although we’re still learning the details, it’s clear that this
was an assassination, that these
officers were shot execution
style,” said de Blasio,
Officer
Charles
who campaigned on
Kondek, 45, was
a promise to improve
gunned down in Tarrelations between the
pon Springs after renation’s largest police
sponding to a call for
force and minority
service.
communities.
The officer later
The two New York
died of his injuries at a
City Police Departlocal hospital, the poment officers, Rafael
lice department said.
Ramos, 40, and WenHis death followed
jian Liu, 32, had no
a Saturday afternoon
time to react when
n
Kondek
shooting in New York
Brinsley appeared next
City, where a gunman
to their vehicle, took a
shot dead two police officers shooter’s stance and shot both
and then killed himself. Au- officers with a silver semi-authorities said that the shooter tomatic handgun, said NYPD
had indicated on social media Police Commissioner William
that he might seek reBratton.
venge for recent US
Brinsley fled to a
police killings of unnearby subway station
armed black men.
where he shot himself
Mayor Bill de Blain the head and died,
sio yesterday ordered
Bratton added.
flags flown at half
The attack, the first
staff around the city,
fatal shooting of an
hours after the city’s
NYPD officer since
main police union
2011, follows weeks
harshly criticised him
of sometimes violent
for being insufficientprotests around the
ly supportive of the
us over a pair of incin Liu
department during redents in which white
cent waves of anti-police vio- police officers shot and killed
lence.
unarmed black men.
The shooter, 28-year-old IsBrinsley cited such cases in
maaiyl Abdula Brinsley, trav- the Instagram post in which he
elled from Baltimore, where threatened police, saying “they
police said he had shot
take 1 of ours ... let’s
and killed his girltake 2 of theirs.”
friend, to New York
President Barack
and during the day
Obama condemned
posted on the social
the killings, saying
media service Insta“two brave men won’t
gram that he would
be going home to their
be “putting wings on
loved ones tonight.”
pigs today,” using an
Meanwhile,
anti-police slur.
Candles and flowers
Baltimore
police
had piled up at an
said they learned of
impromptu memorithe suspect’s posts on
al at the scene of the
Saturday
afternoon
n Ramos
shooting in New York.
and called nyPD ofDe Blasio respondficials to alert them that digital ed, calling it “unfortunate that
data showed he had travelled to in a time of great tragedy, some
the city’s borough of Brooklyn. would resort to irresponsible,
But the call came in less than an overheated rhetoric that angers
hour before officials said Brins- and divides people.”
police officer was shot and
killed while on duty yesterday, law enforcement
officials said, providing no
details about the suspect in
custody or motive for the
shooting.
s Model Kate Upton poses with her Sexiest Woman
Alive award during the People Magazine Awards at
the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California,
US. Right, actors Mindy Kaling and Chris Messina
pose with their TV Couple of the Year Award for
The Mindy Project. Left, actress Kate Hudson with
her award for Celebrity Role Model of the Year.
Churchill painting sold for $2.8m
LONDON: A painting by Sir
Winston ChurChill has
been sold for almost $2.8 million at auction.
The Goldfish Pool at
Chartwell, which depicts the
pond at his Kent, south-east
England home, was painted
in 1932. It was auctioned at
Sotheby’s in London, following the death of his daughter
Mary soaMes in May.
The previous auction record for one of his paintings
was $1.5m.
Fifteen of his paintings
were included in the sale
of Mary Soames’ possessions, which raised a total of
$24m.
Sotheby’s described The
Goldfish Pool at Chartwell
as “undoubtedly Churchill’s
masterpiece from the decade” and “a striking mans The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell beat its estimated value of $625,000-$937,000
ifestation of the artist at his
very best”.
fetched $1.1m.
for $247,680.
It had been given an estimated value of
Among the other possessions, a red minChurchill was Britain’s prime minister
$625,000-$937,000.
isterial despatch box he used while secre- during the Second World War.
Another painting, Tapestries at Blen- tary of state for the colonies from 1921-22,
He died in 1965.
heim, sold for $1.6m, while his de- far exceeded its estimated value of $7,800Mary Soames, who died at the age of 91,
piction
of The
Harbour,
Cannes, $11,000, eventually going under the hammer was his last surviving child.

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