Mayor Bloomberg is getting more support - not that he needed it - for his aggressive stand against firearms in the city as well as the NYPD's handling of crminals as the story of Damon Henry makes the rounds. Henry was shot over the weekend by the NYPD when he fired an Uzi (!!!) at them in East Flatbush. The Post says, "The pursuing police responded with about 30 rounds, hitting him in the torso and legs, blowing off a finger and his penis," according to police. Crime does not pay. It turns out that Henry once owned - and used the gun to shoot an officer - the same gun that killed police officer Dillon Stewart last year. Henry will be tried under a new law that has harsher penalties for people who attack the police - Henry could face a minimum of 20-40 years.
Henry was out on $50,000 bail when he was shot on Saturday - and the police are finding out how he got the Uzi. There was a short-lived TV show in 1997 called Gun in which the same gun was at the center of a different story each episode.
