NEW YORK -- The 66-year-old woman fatally shot by a cop after she charged at him with a baseball bat assailed gun violence and racism in tweets.
Deborah Danner, who identified herself on social media as a programming aficionado who studied computer science, just started to use Twitter in May, when one of her first tweets was: “ANY decision made in anger is a POOR decision…”
The last tweet from the account was on Sunday, when the user wrote: “…someone said ‘Appease Hitler’ and look what happened ….”
Three entries were posted from the account on Oct. 6, including the ominous-sounding: “Wherever this Life’s Journey leads and whatever happens, I GO DOWN FIGHTING!!!!”
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Science could clone or grow body parts instead of waiting for someone to die and donate?” she wrote in a separate entry.
“We Women think science should clone, en masse, Barack Obama and Denzel Washington so that we who want one can have one…(more),” she tweeted.
She also addressed aging.
“AGEISM is the waste of a lot of human knowledge and experience…DD,” she wrote on Oct. 5.
“Who’s getting old? Not me; between NOW and DEATH I have a lot to do…..,” she added.
“My valiant brothers, the struggle is over…the path is clear now–go home and rest in peace…,” she tweeted Sept. 7.
She also delved into politics when she wondered what Hillary Clinton’s “agenda and platform” were in July.
“I hope Mrs. Clinton won’t let TRUMP bait her OR barring that, that she won’t take the bait,” she wrote July 13.
Five days earlier, she wrote: “The wound, RACISM, continues to fester. PRAY for healing.”
“Point of the Conversation: How’d U like to move about w/a TARGET on you because of the color of your skin? BLACK LIVES MATTER!,” she posted.
Danner listed several places of employment since 1976, including as a tech support analyst at Morgan Stanley, payroll supervisor at Columbia University, production control analyst at Marsh & McLennan, associate systems programmer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and senior clerk at the New York City Education Department.
Cops responded to her Bronx building on Pugsley Avenue at 6 p.m. Tuesday after neighbors reported a resident screaming, according to police.
When they entered the apartment, the disturbed woman threatened them with scissors. They persuaded her to drop them, but then she grabbed a wooden bat and charged at Sgt. Hugh Barry, police said.
He fired two shots and struck Danner in the torso. She was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where she died.
Barry, who has eight years on the force and no disciplinary record, was also armed with a Taser at the time. He was immediately placed on modified duty pending an investigation.
Officials said there had been past 911 reports about Danner, who suffered from schizophrenia, WNBC reported.
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad
Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 7:06PM
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