A Closer Look at Cop Killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley by Limus Woods, Contributing Writer A 28-year-old with a harsh criminal background, the troubled NYPD cop killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley was not just a shooter who came out of nowhere and decided to kill two policemen. He actually was affiliated with a prison gang some years ago that hated the police in particular. Some of the actions that he displayed during the entire day, from the time he left Baltimore until he committed suicide in the New York subway, hinted at mental illness. But, until you see the history of him from childhood to the time of his death, you won’t understand how the timeline over the course of his life may have been leading up to this type of ending for him for a long time now. Brinsley’s Background …show more content…
But even organizations such as “Black Lives Matter” have spoken out in response to the recent killings of Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. “An eye for an eye is not our vision of justice,” they said in one statement. “We know all too well the pain and trauma that follows the senseless loss of our family members.” Ismaaiyl had family that loved him, but he alienated himself most of the time from them. This resulted in him getting into trouble with the law on numerous occasions over the years. Between the states of Georgia and Ohio, he’d been locked up 19 times according to the Associated Press. Some of those convictions were for carrying a concealed weapon, robbery, and obstruction of a law enforcement officer, according to reports. His family actually lives in Brooklyn (the place where he ended up taking his own life), and he has a past history of trouble with police in that New York borough as