Understatement of the Week Award
Base10's prayers go out to Police Officers Dominick Romano and David Harris who were attacked early this morning in Queens Village. The perp--a shotgun wielding psychopath--fired at the officers after he was caught shooting the head off of a 100 year-old statue of St. Anne in front of a Queens church. The Daily News account describes it this way:

One officer was hit in the head and the other in the leg by shrapnel from police hater Kevin Davy's shotgun. But at least one of the cops managed to return fire and end the 2 a.m. spree outside Saints Joachim and Anne Church in Queens Village.

"I'm a hustler! I'm a warrior!" ranted Davy, 25, who used a sword to lop off the granite statue's arms and blew the head off with a 12-gauge shotgun before ambushing the police from less than 8 feet away.

"I'm warning you, m-----------s," yelled Davy, who once made an anti-police and anti-government DVD with his brother.

Officer Dominick Romano, 29, was hit once in the head and eight times in the back by projectiles, but his bulletproof vest saved him. His partner, Officer David Harris, 40, was struck in the leg five times - shattering his femur - and also hit in the arm.

Thankfully, it looks like the cops are going to be okay, especially thanks to the intervention of a nurse/practitioner who happened to be passing by and applied a tourniquet to the wounded officer's leg. But check out this quote from the perp's brother:

"He seemed angry," added Davy's brother Keith, 22, who spoke to him hours before the attack.

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- posted by Base10 @ 6:59 PM