Judge to cop-shooter: ‘You will never step foot outside of a prison before you die’, A Queens adjudicator lashed into a cop-hating career bent who opened blaze on a heavily busy NYPD sergeant, sentencing him to 55 years to activity afterwards disdainfully chiding, “You will never footfall bottom alfresco of a bastille afore you die.”
“Who are you, to yield a gun, and try to annihilate a New York City Badge Officer?” Adjudicator Gregory Lasak jeered at ballista John Thomas Wednesday afore a attorneys arranged with cops, many of who smiled at the jab.
His advised target, Sgt. Craig Bier, sat foreground and center, beaming.
“It’s all about choices, and you fabricated some actual bad choices” Lasak told the bootless cop-killer, who had beforehand common his chastity if asked if he had annihilation to say.
“You accept annihilation abroad to say?” Lasak asked, incredulously.
“I’m innocent -- I accept annihilation abroad to say,” the bedevilled felon responded.
“Instead of cogent me you’re innocent, you would accept been bigger off allurement for the minimum sentence,” Judge Lasak argument back, his articulation rising. “The affidavit adjoin you is overwhelming!”
Bier stood for his victim appulse account afore his adherent and pews lined with adolescent cops and assembly from the Sergeants Benevolence Association, who accept stood abaft him back the shooting.
“Can I alarm you Johnny?” the sergeant asked disdainfully as he addressed Thomas.
“I never anticipate of you, except if I’m putting on a bathing clothing and I see the scars on my legs, or if I’m blasting snow,” he admitted.
“You could accept gotten away, but you attempt me, and that tells me two things,” the still alive sergeant said. “The aboriginal is that you’re an idiot– and you fabricated a bad best — and the additional is that you’re a annoyance to my brothers and sisters in blue, and to anybody abroad in New York City.”
Thomas — who had 11 priors — was bedevilled on accuse of attempted annihilation afterwards demography four shots at Bier and hitting him in the legs during a bottom hunt in August 2012.
He afresh skipped town, arch authorities on a manhunt that spanned 5 states afore he assuredly angry himself in a ages later.
Throughout the trial, his advocate Ikiesha Al Shabazz abominably argued that “evidence tampering” was amenable for framing her client.
“My applicant had ahead been offered 15 years,” Shabazz said Wednesday, citation an asleep appeal accord as she begged Lasak to appoint the minimum sentence. “Hopefully my applicant won’t be punished for traveling to trial.”
Bier, a 16-year adept of the NYPD, has accustomed over 65 medals over the advance of his admired career. He now works as a affiliate of the NYPD’s Regional Fugitive Task Force.
“This was a absurd agitated act, and already again, illustrates how alarming badge plan is,” Queens commune Advocate Richard Brown said afterwards the sentencing. “‘The actor has apparent that he has no attention for authority, and is a annoyance to society. Today’s book — the best accustomed by law — is added than justified.”
Thomas, cutting a atramentous sweatshirt and jeans, maintained a baby beam as he was led out of the courtroom.
After walking through halls lined with acclamation officers, Bier said he was “shocked” that Thomas got the best sentence.
“I’ve spent a lot of of my career in Brooklyn, and I’m elated, because cipher gets 55 to activity in Brooklyn, not even if you annihilate the admiral and bake down an orphanage,” the sergeant told The Post. “He fabricated a acquainted best to shoot and annihilate me, and there’s no abode in association for anyone like that.”
“I’m adequate that this affiliate is assuredly over,” Bier said. “In the end, he is in a cage for his accomplished life.”
“Who are you, to yield a gun, and try to annihilate a New York City Badge Officer?” Adjudicator Gregory Lasak jeered at ballista John Thomas Wednesday afore a attorneys arranged with cops, many of who smiled at the jab.
His advised target, Sgt. Craig Bier, sat foreground and center, beaming.
“It’s all about choices, and you fabricated some actual bad choices” Lasak told the bootless cop-killer, who had beforehand common his chastity if asked if he had annihilation to say.
“You accept annihilation abroad to say?” Lasak asked, incredulously.
“I’m innocent -- I accept annihilation abroad to say,” the bedevilled felon responded.
“Instead of cogent me you’re innocent, you would accept been bigger off allurement for the minimum sentence,” Judge Lasak argument back, his articulation rising. “The affidavit adjoin you is overwhelming!”
Bier stood for his victim appulse account afore his adherent and pews lined with adolescent cops and assembly from the Sergeants Benevolence Association, who accept stood abaft him back the shooting.
“Can I alarm you Johnny?” the sergeant asked disdainfully as he addressed Thomas.
“I never anticipate of you, except if I’m putting on a bathing clothing and I see the scars on my legs, or if I’m blasting snow,” he admitted.
“You could accept gotten away, but you attempt me, and that tells me two things,” the still alive sergeant said. “The aboriginal is that you’re an idiot– and you fabricated a bad best — and the additional is that you’re a annoyance to my brothers and sisters in blue, and to anybody abroad in New York City.”
Thomas — who had 11 priors — was bedevilled on accuse of attempted annihilation afterwards demography four shots at Bier and hitting him in the legs during a bottom hunt in August 2012.
He afresh skipped town, arch authorities on a manhunt that spanned 5 states afore he assuredly angry himself in a ages later.
Throughout the trial, his advocate Ikiesha Al Shabazz abominably argued that “evidence tampering” was amenable for framing her client.
“My applicant had ahead been offered 15 years,” Shabazz said Wednesday, citation an asleep appeal accord as she begged Lasak to appoint the minimum sentence. “Hopefully my applicant won’t be punished for traveling to trial.”
Bier, a 16-year adept of the NYPD, has accustomed over 65 medals over the advance of his admired career. He now works as a affiliate of the NYPD’s Regional Fugitive Task Force.
“This was a absurd agitated act, and already again, illustrates how alarming badge plan is,” Queens commune Advocate Richard Brown said afterwards the sentencing. “‘The actor has apparent that he has no attention for authority, and is a annoyance to society. Today’s book — the best accustomed by law — is added than justified.”
Thomas, cutting a atramentous sweatshirt and jeans, maintained a baby beam as he was led out of the courtroom.
After walking through halls lined with acclamation officers, Bier said he was “shocked” that Thomas got the best sentence.
“I’ve spent a lot of of my career in Brooklyn, and I’m elated, because cipher gets 55 to activity in Brooklyn, not even if you annihilate the admiral and bake down an orphanage,” the sergeant told The Post. “He fabricated a acquainted best to shoot and annihilate me, and there’s no abode in association for anyone like that.”
“I’m adequate that this affiliate is assuredly over,” Bier said. “In the end, he is in a cage for his accomplished life.”
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