Woman becomes cop after being shot by sec guard BF

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Impressive woman. Long story but worth it. 

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When her boyfriend punched her in the face, she called the police. When he hit her in the head with a chair, she called again. Officers would arrive, and despite her obvious injuries — a cut lip, a swollen eye — they would turn and leave when her boyfriend, who was a prison guard at Rikers Island, would flash his own badge.

“This is the day you die, bitch,” he said, and he fired — straight at her belly. He fired again, and again, and again and again. He emptied the revolver’s five-round cylinder, then reloaded and emptied it again.

Three extraordinary outcomes followed that bloody day.

Two: She learned to walk again. And run. Her left side hurt when it rained — the remaining bullets.

Three: Ms. Brownlee, who had only ever been let down and ignored by men with badges, even as she stood as living evidence of the beatings and violence one of them had delivered, approached an institution she deeply distrusted, and stepped inside.



“The Police Department had failed me,” Ms. Brownlee, now 51, said in a recent interview. “I wanted to be a good cop.”



In 2001 she entered the police academy.

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Finally, in 2013, Ms. Brownlee was selected to become a member of the executive security detail surrounding the new mayor, Bill de Blasio, and his family.

“You didn’t see people like me on the mayor’s detail,” she said. “It was predominantly a Caucasian male detail. That was huge.”