By Police1 Staff
NEW YORK — A video of a cop asking why the public isn’t outraged over the execution of an NYPD officer has garnered attention on social media.
Officer Martin Green, dressed in full uniform, asked “where the hell are the celebrities now,” after Miosotis Familia was fatally shot while sitting in a mobile command post. The gunman was killed when police returned fire.
Green also expressed his frustration over the reaction to some officer-involved shootings.
“Why is it that every career thug, every career criminal, every piece of garbage low life scum of the earth get the attention when they are shot and killed for breaking the law,” he said. “When they are shot and killed by the police they become heroes. They’re families become millionaires.”
Green told PIX 11 that he filmed the video because he was upset at the lack of public support for police.
“When we have a police officer gunned down in the line of duty – there’s no outrage,” he said. “No one is stepping up for the cops, nobody is looking out for the police and they continue to demonize the cops and that’s an issue as far as I’m concerned.”
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Critics of the video accused Green of ignoring the causes behind community mistrust of police officers. Green told PIX 11 he understands that perspective.
“I understand where people are coming from, I really do,” he said. “But they need to get, people in these neighborhoods in these high-crime neighborhoods, and they need to start getting as aggravated as the police, saying why are these people terrorizing our neighborhoods.”
If there’s one thing Green wants the public to take away from his video, it’s that police aren’t “out there for ourselves.”
“It’s a selfless job, it’s a thankless job, we are out there to make a difference, we are out there to help them out,” he said.