Tears / Anger On 119th Street

Jayson Tirado

They came from the Lower East Side, East Harlem, Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn. Shouting “No justice no Peace! Carrying pictures of Jayson Tirado who this past Monday, October 22^nd, was gunned down by an off duty police officer Sean Sawyer. The sad thing about this is that as Tirado life was passing away, the police officer Sawyer didn’t bother to call 911 for an ambulance. Why?!

Elected officials and residents from the lower east side where Tirado lived with his family voiced their anger at the actions performed by the NYPD. According to Sawyer, the officer involved in the shooting - a born again Christian - he fired because he thought his life was in danger. He stated he fled the scene because he panicked and did not believe that the shots he fired hit anyone. Later he was pulled over by police at 102nd and Central Park West near his home. At which time, 19 hours after the incident, Sawyer confessed to the officer about the shooting.

Gloria E. Quinoes, Esq, Constituent Services Director from City Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito’s office and a resident of East Harlem stated “Today the communities of the lower east side and upper Manhattan are in mourning because the loss of other one of our young people. Jayson did not have to die!

“One has to ask what kind of training that officers are receiving!” Charlie King, an attorney who was representing the National Action Network shouted “It’s always the same thing we hear from the NYPD when they shoot at unarmed civilians it’s always a claim of self-defense. They said the same thing at the Sean Bell case, that apparently is the claim here. How can one you make a claim of self-defense when there is no weapon around! How can you claim self-defense when you got two cars driving side by side then ahead. These things don’t make sense. He was unarmed and simply went to the aid of some friends so they can arrive home safely. Tragically he did not make it home himself!”

Antonio Rivera a resident of East Harlem and a victim of police misconduct voiced his anger. “I’m tired of all this. I shouldn’t be haunted in the community I live, I shouldn’t be scared to come out of my home, I don’t trust the police for anything!” Jayson’s fiancée who was present along with their daughter Jaleen crying, shouting with anger. “How I am I going to tell my daughter her father was killed by the NYPD.”

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