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Miosotis Familia, a 48-year-old New York Police Department officer, was shot and killed Wednesday morning by a man who had expressed anger at police in the past.
Authorities called the shooting in the Bronx, in which Familia was killed while sitting in a police truck, an “unprovoked” attack. The alleged shooter, Alexander Bonds, was shot and killed by other officers near the scene. Bonds, a former convict, posted a video on Facebook last year in which he didn’t quite threaten violence against police, but said he wouldn’t shrink away from confrontations.
“I’m not hesitating. It ain’t happening. I wasn’t a bitch in jail and I’m not going to be a bitch in these streets,” Bonds said in the video, which The New York Times reported. The paper said police had reviewed the video.
Bonds, who also went by John Bonds, had been on parole for a robbery case in Syracuse, New York, but was from the Bronx, police said. He is seen in surveillance footage marching up to the post “with purpose,” officials said, but it’s not clear what provoked the attack.
In a video posted on Facebook in September, he ranted about the treatment of civilians by officers and talks about how hard life was behind bars. The photos of Bonds posted on the page match a police mugshot.
“Don’t think every brother, cousin, uncle you got that get killed in jail is because of a blood or crip or Latin King killing them. Nah, police be killing them and saying that an inmate killed them,” he said in the video.
