Elected official under fire after suspect tries to murder cops, sets off civil unrest based on lies

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Elected official under fire after suspect tries to murder cops, sets off civil unrest based on lies
 Rob O'Donnell
March 28, 2020

NEWBURGH, NY- The City of Newburgh is on fire because elections have consequences.

Friday evening in a New York suburban town just over an hour north of New York City, civil unrest took hold.

This, after an elected city councilman went to his social media to promote false rhetoric and information in his official capacity to attack, from what all accounts dictate was a self defense police involved shooting with an armed suspect. ...

As responding officers approached the scene, the initiating officer was pistol whipped across the head by the suspect, and then shot in the shoulder during the struggle, causing one of the officers to discharge their weapon, fatally wounding the armed assailant. ...

Now enter Newburgh City Councilman Omari Shakur, whose real name is Raymond Bryant Sr. ... At 6:45pm, just an hour and forty four minutes after the shooting, Shakur posted a video on his Facebook page, where he often promotes official business and lists his position not once, but twice as a Councilman at Newburgh City Hall, to proclaim that “an unarmed black man was killed in Newburgh”.

He also went on to state “these (police) are killers in our community, these are killers”. ...

A riot ensued.
Full story at Law Enforcement Today


Here's the "unarmed man" with the weapon used to strike the officer and shoot him.