NYPD warns cops that Black Guerilla Family may be planning attack on precincts
EXCLUSIVE: Precincts and other commands were warned that the cop-hating militant group may be intentionally ordering its members to get arrested so they could learn the level of security at police stations or just shoot cops.
BY Rocco Parasc , Ola /
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS /
Thursday, January 8, 2015, 2:30 AM
The NYPD provided its members with this alert from Baltimore police.
The NYPD is warning its members that cop-hating members of a militant group may be planning to walk into precincts armed with a weapon, the Daily News has learned.
The department has distributed to precincts and other commands a bulletin issued by the Baltimore Police Department after the arrest of an armed member of the Black Guerilla Family, which has a strong presence in that city’s prison system.
Jason Armstrong, 29, allegedly showed up at a Baltimore station house Tuesday reeking of marijuana.
He then admitted he had weed on him, and when he was searched, police found marijuana, cocaine and a loaded .22-caliber handgun, according to the warning and published reports.
Deputy Commissioner Stephen Davis said it was prudent to warn officers.
In the bulletin, which Baltimore police described as a “possible security procedures test,” Armstrong said he was ordered by his Black Guerilla Family bosses to “get caught with a gun and drugs.”
An NYPD source said cops around the city were alerted to the possibility that someone may do this “to figure out what our level of security is, what the precinct looks like — or just to shoot someone.”
Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the gunman who executed Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos on Dec. 20, was at first thought to be connected to the “family.”
The front page of the January 6, 2015 New York Daily News.
New York Daily News
The front page of the January 6, 2015 New York Daily News.
Even though that wasn’t the case, Deputy Commissioner Stephen Davis, the NYPD’s top spokesman, said the prudent step was to warn officers.
“We would obviously advise our police officers even it wasn’t geared toward New York,” Davis said.
Since Liu and Ramos were gunned down, the NYPD has stepped up security at precincts around the city and has investigated dozens of threats against officers
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