A woman from the Catskills area, directly north of New York City has been charged with the attempted murder of four NYC police officers who were riding in a van as the woman, Samantha Shader, 27, tried to throw a Molotov cocktail into the van.
It is only by the Grace of God that the officers were not killed. Two others were also arrested for a very similar offense.
Shader’s sister, Darian Shader, 21, was also arrested.
Violence has been increasing all across the nation and the police seem to have been targeted by these thugs.
WABC reports:
One of two sisters from the Catskills allegedly involved in a Molotov cocktail attack on cops is facing federal charges, along with two other people in a separate but similar incident during the Brooklyn protests Friday night, a law-enforcement source told Eyewitness News. In the incident involving the sisters, police said the Molotov cocktail was thrown at the NYPD van around 11:30 p.m. near the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue, outside the Brooklyn Museum, as violent protests convulsed parts of the borough.
Samantha Shader, 27, was charged with four counts of attempted murder as well as attempted arson, assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon. She is now facing federal charges from U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, the law-enforcement source said. Her sister, Darian Shader, 21, was charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of justice. She is expected to be prosecuted by the Brooklyn District Attorney.
“It is by the grace of God… that we don’t have dead officers today,” New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a Saturday press conference. “Coming to an assembly premeditated with loaded firearms, with bricks, with Molotov cocktails, is the furthest thing possible from civil disobedience.”
“We practice de-escalation, but it is very difficult to practice de-escalation when you’re having a brick thrown at you, at your head,” he added.
According to Shea, one police officer’s teeth were knocked out during the riots.
“The answer for violence should not be violence or murder. And that is a mistake. And I think anyone that sees it needs to condemn it because it will not get us where we want to be,” he said.
Friday’s riots in New York City coincided with demonstrations across the country, with violent unrest occurring in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta.
