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How do they know he is \u201cself-radicalized\u201d? What mosque does Jamal Funes attend? Has anyone investigated that mosque? Or would that be \u201cIslamophobic\u201d?<\/p>\n
\u201c2 cops hurt after shootout with alleged Brooklyn radical,\u201d by Shawn Cohen, Larry Celona and Jamie Schram, New York Post<\/a>, February 20, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller<\/a>):<\/p>\n The career criminal whose drawn gun sparked a wild shootout in which two Brooklyn police officers were wounded in Bedford-Stuyvesant early Saturday is a cop-hating, self-radicalized Muslim who is associated with other suspected extremists<\/strong>, police sources told The Post. Funes fired the bullet that richocheted off a car and hit Officer Andrew Yurkiw in the chest, sources said. The ammo was stopped by his bulletproof vest, sources said.<\/p>\n Yurkiw\u2019s partner, Officer William Reddin, was struck in the hip, possibly by bullet fragments. It\u2019s unclear whether the bullet was fired by Funes or was friendly fire because it is still in his hip, sources said.<\/p>\n Reddin needed surgery and remains in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.<\/p>\n Seven officers fired a total of 54 bullets, one source said.<\/p>\n Funes, 34, was shot \u201cnumerous\u201d times and was in Brookdale Hospital in critical condition, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.<\/p>\n The incident began when Funes stopped his car at a traffic light on Malcolm X Boulevard and Quincy Street, police sources said.<\/p>\n An MTA worker in his transit uniform was in his own car waiting at the same light, when, looking over, he saw Funes allegedly pointing a silver gun at him, the sources said. The rattled MTA staffer sped off.<\/p>\n Police believe Funes mistook the MTA worker for a police officer, according to the sources.<\/p>\n At the same time, two housing police officers heard a gunshot and ran to investigate, the sources said.<\/p>\n Funes next allegedly leveled his weapon but didn\u2019t fire, the sources said. Instead, he drove off, and the housing cops jumped in their car to chase him. They also called for backup.<\/p>\n Reddin and Yurkiw, part of an 81st Precinct plainclothes anti-crime unit, joined in the chase.<\/p>\n They followed Funes as he zoomed the wrong way down Lexington Avenue and slammed into a patrol car.<\/p>\n Surrounded in his car, Funes faced off against eight cops at Lexington and Malcolm X Boulevard.<\/p>\n Bullets flew both ways, with two hitting Reddin and Yurkiw, who had both gotten out of their car.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen officers show up, they\u2019re in the middle of a combat situation and have to make split-second decisions whether to shoot,\u201d said a source, who called the incident \u201ca moving, running gun battle.\u201d<\/p>\n Funes stayed inside his car throughout the shootout.<\/p>\n One resident said, \u201cWe felt like we were in Baghdad.\u201d\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\nJamal Funes, whose rap sheet stretches 17 years across three states, is associated with people the Joint Terrorism Task Force are looking at, sources said.<\/strong><\/p>\n