Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manuel Martinez, 40, and his nephew. Domingo Morales Jr., 25, were shot point-blank by Officer Kevin Durkin. The policeman was off-duty in a bar across the street from his Bronx police precinct. Morales and Martinez were about to leave when Durkin suddenly fired five shots from within two feet of the men; Morales was hit once in the face and Martinez twice in the back. As Durkin's fellow officers removed the gun from his hand, he stood over the bodies, muttering. "I'm on the job. I got them. They're coming...
When Officer Torsney shot Randy Evans point-blank, he cannot possibly have seen Evans for what he was--a 15-year-old asking a question. When Ja-Wan McGee reached for his cigarette lighter, he had no way of knowing a nearby cop would "see" a holdup. Patrolman Kevin Durkin slipped into a waking nightmare, and two men suddenly found themselves cast as Puerto Rican terrorists...
...shirt at his waist. Johnson is supposed to have answered, "That's a gun." According to Harms, "The officer placed his left hand on the gun and with his right hand drew his own revolver." Johnson then "made a sudden move." Alvarez fired his .38 point-blank into Johnson's face. The young man lay in a coma for 24 hours, then died...
...work he stores it on a magnetic tape,or disc, much as someone might use a tape recorder to store a noteworthy speech. A particularly useful or entertaining computer program might be accepted by one of the growing number of software publishers. They will copy the program onto blank discs and send them to computer stores around the country...
Gregory J. Nagy, protessor of Greek and Latin, couldn't disagree more. "I find it wonderful to blank out, and I don't mind running in the same place, over and over and over again. It's a funny sort of being on hold...