An off-duty detective on his way to work fatally shot a cane-wielding teen who had attacked him during a botched robbery in Brooklyn last night, police said.

The officer, Detective Benjamin Cintron, was walking on Grove Street in Bushwick toward the J train station at 11:50 p.m., when the 15-year-old suspect grabbed him from behind and simulated a gun in his pocket. Meanwhile, a second suspect, Antoine White, 17, smashed the cop in the face with a cane possibly knocking him to one knee, sources said.

"Run your pockets," White barked.

Cintron quickly identified himself and ordered White to "drop it," police said. When White continued to lunge towards him, the cop pulled his gun and fired a single shot, killing him, police said.

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His tearful mother, Crystal White, 33, said, “They took my baby away from me. My son was 130 pounds, and they’re telling me this officer didn’t know how to handle two kids.” , She said her son had been foster care for at least four years.

“He was in the care of the city. They took him from me,” she said.

She said he was put in a group home but had been missing since Sept. 30.

“He was not supposed to be out on the street,” she said.

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happy no.

correct outcome, yeah.

next victim might not have fared as well.

 

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