There’s needs to be a law that says a person is only allowed to be arrested no more than 3 times before facing mandatory prison time of no less than 5 years. I don’t care if the arrests lead to conviction or dismissal. The man who pushed this Brooklyn cop to his death had a 28 arrests record. Obviously, the guy had a series problem and it was only a matter of time before this ticking time bomb went off.
New York Post reports a veteran Brooklyn cop was killed this morning when he was shoved off a porch and landed on his head — breaking his neck — while trying to handcuff a career thug with a history of domestic violence.
Officer Alain Schaberger, 42, had responded to a 4:22 a.m. call for help from a frantic 48-year-old woman at 334 Bergen St. in Boerum Hill.
"He said he's going to kill me, he said he's across the street and he is going to kill me," the panicked woman said in the call.
A second call followed five minutes later from a security guard at the building.
By the time police arrived, suspect George Villanueva, 40, a lowlife thief and bully from Brooklyn with 28 priors, had fled to an apartment building at 45 St. Mark’s Place, where his father lives.
Cops took the woman, who has an order of protection against Villanueva, to that address to identify the suspect.
The father initially told them his son was not there, but finally admitted he was in another room, "sleeping."
Cops went to the room, nabbed Villanueva and escorted him to the front stoop, where they attempted to handcuff him after the woman fingered him as the suspect, police said.
But Villanueva, 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds, began struggling after one arm was cuffed, and shoved the 5-foot-8, 180 pound Schaberger over an 18-inch railing.
The 10-year veteran fell about nine feet and landed on his head, police said.
While other officers twice tasered Villanueva, the gravely injured Schaberger who still had a pulse, was rushed to Lutheran Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:59 a.m.
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This cop would still be alive if people like Villanueva were off the streets for having multiple arrests. We have a broken system that nedds to be fixed to protect the public.
