TRIBUTE TO A YOUNG COP – AT 11:58 A.M. ET:  There's so much cop bashing coming from the left, and we'll fight to balance it.  An extraordinary event occurred in New York on Friday – a police cadet took down a serial criminal who had just fatally wounded the cadet's partner.  A good, quick-thinking cop-to-be, who probably prevented further deadly carnage.  From the New York Post: 

The recruit who opened fire on the thug during the Bronx shootout that claimed the life of Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo on Friday had been in the Police Academy for only two months, sources told The Post.

“He’s with his family,” a source said Saturday of the recruit, whose steely nerves and good aim are being credited with killing suspect Manuel Rosales and preventing a worse loss of officer life.

“He’s being reassured by co-workers and bosses that he did a great job,” the source said. “He feels terrible for the sergeant’s family.”

The recruit had just been assigned to a training officer — and was on his third day of what would be three weeks of academy “field training” when he aced the ultimate test.

He was one of seven cops in three police vehicles to pursue Rosales’s Jeep in the borough’s Van Nest section. Rosales was being sought for breaking into his estranged wife’s apartment nearby. Only he and a second officer were able to open fire on Rosales as the suspect fired point blank at Tuozzolo’s head.

The recruit had hit the streets as part of a revamped training strategy instituted last summer.

NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis told The Post at the time, in what would prove to be prophetic words, “certain things are better taught in real-life settings.”

COMMENT:  Great police work.  Tragically, one cop was lost, but a recruit saved the day.  Blue lives matter, too.

November 6, 2016