A gunman rampaged through a strip of restaurants in a trendy Manhattan neighborhood Wednesday night, killing two unarmed Auxiliary police officers and a pizzeria employee. Regular police officers then shot and killed the gunman. Yeshivaworld has confirmed with the noted Askan, Rabbi Edgar Gluck that the rumor is in fact true that one of the police officers was Jewish.Rabbi Gluck responded to the scene last evening together with Chesed Shel Emmes, and are doing everything to have the body released as soon as possible to have the Levaya according to Halacha.
Yeshivaworld mourns the death of both NYPD Auxiliary officers; Nicholas Todd Pekearo and Eugene Marshalik.
In the words of Mayor Bloomberg “tonight was a horrible night for the New York Police Department and for our city,” he said. “Two men who volunteered their time to make our city the safest big city in America lost their lives helping to keep it exactly that way.”
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9 Responses
Why does no one comment when a Jewish police officer is killed in the line of duty but when Purim pictures are put up three weeks after Purim, there is an outrage!
Baruch Dayan haEmes to the families.
I AGREE TO LAREADER SAYS 100 PERCENT
the rest of are too shocked to say anything!
Baruch Dayen Emes!!
Why don’t we start like Al the Shapton does?
LAREADER
Ihave a better question for you which I posted on another thread.
Why is it that the blog which involved a Non Jewish Polish women who saved 2500 Jews during the war only produced 2 comments whereas Mosh A Friedman, that lunatic from NK generated over 50?
boruch dayan haemes
What comments can we make except BDE (and thanking Rabbi Gluck and Chessed shel Emmes for taking care of a fellow Jew, with whom they had no connection, even in death)?
The auxiliary officer was not killed because he was a Jew. He was not identifiable as a Jew nor was the gunman davka going after Jews. The gunman was a productive citizen who went berserk or got into a fight and shot an innocent victim, and then the 2 auxiliary officers went beyond their training to try to capture him. A tragic situation that is all too common in urban life but not davka a Jewish issue.
I agree with Itzik_s. Yes, it is terrible that a Jew was killed. But it wasn’t a hate crime against Jews. There should be the same amount of outrage over both deaths, although from the only eight responses here it seems that there isn’t much.