KILLED FOR BEING A COP
NYPD officer, mom of 3, executed in cold blood
Alexander Bonds, a career criminal who posted to Facebook about his hatred of cops, murdered Officer Miosotis Familia in the early hours of Wednesday as she sat in a police van in The Bronx.
Alexander Bonds had a longfestering hatred of cops. He once assaulted an officer with brass knuckles and raged against officers in a Facebook rant riddled with profanities. “I’m here to tell you I’m so mad as f--k,” the cop-killer says at the beginning of an 11-minute Facebook Live video posted last year. “Police is f----ts and this isn’t no gimmick . . . Don’t think every brother, cousin, uncle you got that gets killed in jail is because of a Blood or Crip be killing them, no its because police be killing them,” Bonds rages in the Sept. 28 clip. Between drags on a cigarette, he fumes about the alleged rape of a teenage girl by a cop: “What do ya’ll who uphold the police say now? Like seriously, what do you say? You say good morning, officer? How do you do? Are you gonna’ rape my child today?” Bonds’ girlfriend said he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was acting “irrational and erratic” in the hours before the shooting, according to law-enforcement sources.
The girlfriend also claims to have called 911 three times on Tuesday night to report that Bonds was unhinged. But the killer kept ducking the squad cars as they drove by in The Bronx, the sources said.
A short time later, Bonds fatally shot NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia as she sat in a mobile command post in The Bronx early Wednesday. Bonds was shot dead by police after he killed Familia.
Bonds, 34, was paroled in 2013 for a robbery in Syracuse. State Department of Correction records show he served nearly eight years for the crime.
In the Facebook video, Bonds boasts about his time in prison.
“I wasn’t a bitch in jail and I’m not gonna’ be a bitch in these streets. They don’t f--k with me and I don’t f--k with them,” he says.
“I don’t care about one hundred police watching this sh-t.”
Later on, he charges, “You better worry about the enemy killing you and then giving you hush money,” apparently referring to cops.
“That’s where your taxpayer money goin’, n---a, to pay off your own people that they murder, stupid.”
In closing his rant, Bonds says, “I’m here to tell you, Mr. Officer . . . just keep your ass away from mines.”
Aside from the sharing of anticop-related videos on Facebook, Bonds’ social-media page is loaded with clips of himself talking to the camera.
He shared memes, quotes by Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. as well as juvenile quizzes on Facebook that ask: “What’s deadly about you?” “Who’s your second half ?” and “What’s the status of your heart?”
In January, Bonds shared and “liked” a Facebook page called “Return Judy Clark to Our Community.”
Clark is a former Weather Un- derground member convicted for her role in the infamous 1981 Brinks robbery in which two Nyack police officers and an armored-truck driver were killed.
Bonds, who also shared a video of a man mouthing off to a group of police officers, was once busted in 2001 for pummeling a cop from the 111th Precinct with brass knuckles in Queens, police sources said.
Bonds was a drifter who had frequented city homeless shelters. He had six arrests on his rap sheet, including busts for drugs and subway-turnstile jumping.
Since his parole in 2013, he had received five summonses for quality-of-life offenses, including urinating in public, having an open container and disorderly conduct, sources said.
Neighbors at Bonds’ last known home address, on Rev. James A. Polite Avenue in The Bronx, said they tried to stay far away from him.
“He is scary! He looks crazy! I never talk to him but he talks to me,” said Alliya Merin, 15, who lives across the street.
“I am scared of him and his friends. All of them scare me. They sell drugs.”
Another neighbor said that Bonds and his girlfriend moved into a second-floor apartment about five months ago.
Yet another said, “He’s always fighting. One fight last week, he was yelling at two guys, ‘I have a gun! You want me to go get my gun?!’ ”
Supermarket manager Alvaro Kidd, 33, said he last saw Bonds at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, hours before he killed Familia.
“He was just drinking beers on the corner with his friends,” Kidd said. “I never talk to him. He hangs out with scary people.”
Atrue New York heroine died early Wednesday — gunned down in cold blood by a cop-hating assassin as she sat in a mobile command anti-crime vehicle, protecting a Bronx neighborhood long plagued by gang violence.
Officer Miosotis Familia, 48, earned that label long before she became the third female NYPD officer to suffer a combat-related death.
The single mother of three and caretaker of her aging mother joined the force at 36 after years as a nurse and medical assistant. Her entire life was devoted to serving her family, her community and her city.
As one colleague recalled, “She was always overextending herself to people.”
But she was shot without warning by a serial convict who’d threatened cops in a menacing social-media rant, warning he wouldn’t back down in any street confrontation.
“I’m not hesitating,” vowed gunman Alexander Bonds. “It ain’t happening. I wasn’t a bitch in jail and I’m not going to be a bitch in these streets.” He was shot dead himself just after killing Officer Familia.
Yet this was no confrontation, but an unprovoked ambush, plain and simple, like the 2014 attack that claimed the lives of Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
And by all accounts Bonds’ only “reason” was that Familia, who never saw the bullet coming, was a cop.
Being a police officer is always fraught with daily peril, a fact that takes a toll on every cop family, though the public is only reminded of it by horrors like this one.
And the perils are growing worse. An FBI report recently confirmed a nationwide “War on Cops,” waged by assailants now more willing to use deadly force because they don’t believe they’ll pay a heavy price.
And more eager to strike, thanks to widespread vilification of cops as racist killers. Whatever demons drove Alexander Bonds to kill surely were spurred by such rhetoric.
And so the city must bury another hero killed in the line of duty long before her time. All New Yorkers salute Officer Miosotis Familia and mourn her loss.