A culture that coddles -- and emboldens -- criminals led to the Christmas Eve shooting of an NYPD officer in Brooklyn, according to the head of the city’s largest police union. The suspect, identified as William Moss, shot the officer after his girlfriend’s mother called police to alert them that he threatened to come over and open fire, according to police sources. The officers were talking to the younger woman when Moss arrived, shot the cop and fled, the sources said. "A man threatened his girlfriend and because the NYPD was there, that woman is alive right now," de Blasio said at the hospital. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea held up the officer’s protective vest at the press conference to show where the bullet had been lodged.

Source: Fox News December 26, 2020 14:03 UTC