Quotables

“I’ve probably never prayed harder in my life. The things that I prayed for was kind of crazy—like I had to live until the Cubs won the World Series.”

Oklahoma death row inmate RICHARD GLOSSIP, who’s been scheduled to die nine times, telling The Free Press what he prayed about on the fourth time.

“You want to know why our cops are getting assaulted? There’s no consequences, and we must change this. End of story.”

JOHN CHELL, chief of patrol for the New York Police Department, after a group of 12 migrants attacked two police officers on Jan. 27 as they tried to take a person into custody outside a shelter. Several of the attackers were charged but released without bail.

“I must have buried her a thousand times in my head.”

ILLIA MUZYKA, 29, a Ukrainian border guard who was taken captive by the Russians in April 2022 and recently reunited with fiancée Alina Panina, also a POW, according to Reuters.

“I saw the broom and, well it is just a broom, but I had to use it.”

Grocery shelf stocker BRUNO TEIXEIRA, who used a broom to help disarm a man threatening shoppers with a kitchen knife on Jan. 29 at a kosher supermarket in a suburb of London, according to The Jewish Chronicle.