{"id":536,"date":"2005-12-14T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/i_hate_to_say_it_but_that_alleged_motherfucker_should_fry.html"},"modified":"2005-12-14T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T17:41:32","slug":"i_hate_to_say_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/i_hate_to_say_i.html","title":{"rendered":"I Hate To Say It, But That (Alleged) Motherfucker Should Fry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police officer (allegedly) killed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000969\/\">this idiot<\/a> loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106489\/\">his (alleged) murderer&#8217;s best-known film<\/a> &#8212; and in a strange twist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/59668.htm\">taped the movie to watch later when it aired on cable just a week before his death<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Days before he was shot dead trying to stop a burglary near his home, Officer Daniel Enchautegui asked a relative to record the movie &#8220;A Bronx Tale&#8221; &#8212; the coming-of-age film starring one of the men now charged in his murder.<\/p>\n<p>The eerie twist emerged yesterday as family and friends packed a Bronx funeral home to pay respects to the heroic cop.<\/p>\n<p>According to Charles Spruill, a cop who worked with Enchautegui at the 40th Precinct, &#8220;A Bronx Tale,&#8221; starring Lillo Brancato, aired on cable TV about a week before the shooting, but Enchautegui wasn&#8217;t home to watch it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wanted his nephew to tape the movie because he really liked [it],&#8221; Spruill said. &#8220;It&#8217;s so ironic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brancato, who played a teen torn between his father&#8217;s love and a mobster&#8217;s loyalty in the 1993 film, was charged with second-degree murder. He and a gun-toting friend were caught by Enchautegui, 28, Saturday morning as they tried to break into a Bronx home, police said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police officer (allegedly) killed by this idiot loved his (alleged) murderer&#8217;s best-known film &#8212; and in a strange twist, taped the movie to watch later when it aired on cable just a week before his death: Days before he was shot dead trying to stop a burglary near his home, Officer Daniel Enchautegui asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_screenwriters_idea_bag","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}