A man walking across the Brooklyn Bridge displaying a pistol fatally shot himself in the chest yesterday morning after attracting a half-circle of police officers who ordered him to drop the weapon, the police said.
"Perhaps in some circles the murder of police has some sort of kudos attached to it.
While his life as a journalist-turned-screenwriter turned crime novelist has taken him everywhere from the outer Hebrides to seven years spent shadowing the covert inner circle of the Chinese police, May said the autobiographical nature of the book made it particularly good fun to write.
Hundreds of police circled like cogs in a gear system, then swarmed at the first sign of conflict.
As dusk fell and tear gas lingered in the air, police helicopters circled over Parliament, where rows of police officers in gas masks and shields stood guard.
"This has been declared an unlawful assembly," the police commander on the scene warned through a loudspeaker, his voice barely audible over the din of police helicopters circling overhead, as officers brandished tear-gas guns.
After a full day and night to digest Tuesday's events, New Yorkers wake up to a different city, a quiet, somber place where jet fighters circle through the sky and swarms of police linger on nearly every corner.
North of Columbus Circle, more police officers converged, but they didn't stop the protesters.
The allegation that there was a circle of privileged men – politicians and police officers among them – who were able to abuse young men and boys with impunity have been circulating for a number of years.
