The fruit of de Blasio's and Antifa's anti-police rhetoric and actions.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman was arrested after he ambushed police officers in the Bronx twice in 12 hours, authorities said, wounding two in attacks that brought outrage from officials who blamed the violence on an atmosphere of anti-police rhetoric.

Robert Williams, 45, of the Bronx, was captured after he walked into a police station in the Bronx and started shooting shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday, police said. His shots struck a lieutenant in the arm and narrowly missed other police personnel before he ran out of bullets, lay down and tossed his pistol, officials said.

That attack came just hours after Williams approached a patrol van in the same part of the Bronx and fired at two officers inside, wounding one before escaping on foot, police said.

All of those shot are expected to recover, authorities said.

“It is only by the grace of God and the heroic actions of those inside the building that took him into custody that we are not talking about police officers murdered inside a New York City police precinct,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a news conference.

Williams is being charged with attempted murder, criminal weapon possession and resisting arrest, police said in an email late Sunday identifying him as the suspect. He was hospitalized Sunday evening, the Bronx prosecutor’s office said. It wasn’t clear whether he had an attorney to speak for him.

Williams had been upset since his own son died after being shot in the Bronx, the suspect’s grandmother told the New York Post.

“He was depressed at times because his son got shot in the street,” Mary Williams, 80, told the newspaper. “That was his only child.”

Shea called Williams a “coward” and said he had a long criminal history, including a 2002 shooting and carjacking in which he fired a gun at police. He was paroled from prison in 2017 after an attempted murder conviction, Shea said.

The commissioner also lashed out at criminal justice reform activists who have demonstrated in recent months against excessive force by police, including a large protest in Grand Central Terminal. The protests, he suggested, helped create an anti-police environment.

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https://apnews.com/4bc2296db89a22c7c313f717ce76ff6f

I was reflecting on this incident when it occurred to me the gunman is still alive. Why is this important? Because we are constantly told the police are trigger happy when it comes to black people, yet when confronted by a black man shooting at them, they don't kill him as they could easily have done, they take him into custody.

OTOH, think of how de Blasio and race hustlers like Sharpton would have reacted if the police had used deadly force.