This guy managed to fuck himself good:
"I'm ready to kill some cops" is probably the last thing anybody would ever think about calling 911 and telling an emergency operator when they pick up. One Inwood man did, and the resulting standoff ended up with him dead as of yesterday morning.
Twenty-four-year-old Emmanuel Paulin called up 911 and had the following conversation with them:
911 Operator: "911 Operator, where is your emergency?"
Suspect: "Yeah, I want you to call the cops 'cause I'm ready to kill."
911 Operator: "What?"
Suspect: "I'm ready to kill some cops right now."
911 Operator: "You're ready to kill some cops? Where are you?"
Suspect: "Yeah [lists his NY address], I'm right here, outside."
Operator: "OK, so what's going on there?"
Suspect: "Yeah, I'm ready to kill cops right now."
Operator: "Oh, OK."
Suspect: "OK, yeah, get em, I'll be right here."
Note that final "Oh, OK," of the 911 operator, because what the hell else do you say at the point? Surely, maybe somewhere in the 911 operator's manual there's some kind of direction as to how to handle callers like this? Cops were dispatched to respond to a threats against police call and showed up on the scene, tried to Taser the knife-wielding Paulin, and after Paulin pulled the tasers out of his own body and kept approaching police with knife in hand, was shot dead by police. Some are calling this an overreaction.
Fernando Mateo, the president of Hispanics Across America, held a vigil Sunday night in front of Paulino's home. "We believe that with all the technology and all the training the finest police department in the world has, it could have been prevented, it could have been handled differently," Mateo said.