Monday a 19-year-old illegal immigrant named Bernardo Raul Castro-Mata shot two police officers who tried to stop him riding his moped down the street the wrong way. Castro-Mata’s story reads like a tale intended to point out everything wrong with Joe Biden’s handling of border policy. We’ll get to that in a moment but first here’s what happened yesterday.
Officers investigating a robbery pattern involving mopeds and scooters in East Elmhurst tried to pull over a person going the wrong way on a moped near 23rd Avenue and 82nd Street just after 1:30 a.m., police said, but the man jumped off and ran away.
The two 26-year-old officers chased him several blocks, and NYPD officials say he fired at them multiple times during the pursuit. One officer, Richard Yarusso, was hit in his bulletproof vest, which stopped the bullet; the other, Christopher Abreu, took a bullet to the…