New Bad Days 79: Former City Hall Aide Gets Mugged In The Subway And Is Shocked About It As Crime On Mass Transit Inclines And As Mentally Ill Men Push People On The Tracks In Consecutive Days; Two Dead Babies Left To Rot In An Alley;Two Women Get Struck By Stray Bullets From Gang Related Shootings; An Abusive Husband And A Fugitive Both Die Respectably In Shootouts With The NYPD And U.S. Marshals; Endangered Parking Spaces On Open Streets Are Devolving Into Street Fights; Gun Toting Thug Robs And Terrorizes Woman And Her Small Business And Child Twice; Gun Runners Get Caught In The Act After One Of Them Complains About A Baby Getting Killed; NYPD Continues Overdeployments Of Political Protests As A Bartender Declares His Bar An Autonomous Zone And Defends It By Running Over A NYC Sheriff’s Deputy Gets Kid Gloves Treatment As Gang Related And Individual Gun Violence Rises 101%

Manhattan

In the West Village and Greenwich Village, cops arrested 57 people who were protesting on the street as the presidential election results were being tabulated. Fires were being set on the road and in garbage cans. One woman punched a cop in the face and another woman spit in another cops face and got thrown to the ground. The NYPD also dispensed violence to citizens participating in the demonstration and again resorted to kettling demonstrators on the avenue while corralling commuters as well. Raising the chance of another rise of COVID-19 spread in the city.

Another protest organized by the Black Transgender community that began by the Stonewall Inn got tailed by a mass overdeployment of cops in riot gear and bikes as they marched their way through Washington Square to Union Square. During the march, a mentally ill homeless man attacked a lieutenant from behind and tried to strangle him with a chain. Then the NYPD began to swarm on the protesters, while bike cops aggressively and indiscriminately walled off people, one of them being Public Advocate Juaamme Williams who the cops didn’t even recognize.

A militia of bike cops assembled at Union Square across the street from a group of protesters on the other side of the street and then charged and yelled at them to move back. The cops deployed outnumbered the amount of protesters on 14th St. and their overzealous tactics trying to force people to move back up the steps of the park area  caused a 1010 WINS journalist to get almost trampled.

Mayor de Blasio’s predictably slow response to the actions of his NYPD was dripped with mealy insouciance and abject denial, despite hundreds of videos that have been distributed on social media since May 28th where his NYPD used the majority of the force and spent untold millions of dollars to dispense brutality to his constituents exercising their right to assemble and speak against unjust systemic issues still prevalent in law enforcement and the budgetary inequities to other services like education and housing to bolster them. (videos by Scootercaster)

In Harlem, a man going out to buy breakfast got shot to death in broad daylight and from point black range from a man who walked up behind him and blew his head off while the murder victim was talking to a woman. The victim was previously charged with attempted murder from an incident

Also in Harlem, three men jumped a man on the street and stabbed him multiple times.

Again in Harlem, a drunk driver crashed his car into a motorcycle while turning and knocked the biker and his passenger off and hospitalized them.

And again in Harlem, a man got shot in the back by an apartment building at the St. Nicholas Houses.

And again in Harlem, a homeless man got beaten to death on the street by a gang of men.

And again in Harlem, three men beat the hell out of a man and stabbed him three times after they saw him smoking a joint near a street corner.

And again in Harlem, a man got stabbed to death on a street corner.

And again in Harlem, a man followed another man to his apartment building and shot him as he was entering it and stole his chain.

And again in Harlem, an off-duty C.O. with a warrant on him brawled with another man inside an apartment building.

And again in Harlem, a man got shot in broad daylight while walking on the sidewalk.

In East Harlem, a man got killed after getting run over by a hit and run driver while lying on the crosswalk.

Also in East Harlem, a 17-year-old boy attacked a man by stabbing him multiple times on his head with a knife during a robbery attempt.

Again in East Harlem, a man livid about missing out on a game console system he was waiting on line for at a video game store suckerpunched a man who just purchased one as he left the store. Then the loon got arrested when he went to pick a backpack he dropped when he fled at the police station that contained a fake gun.

And again in East Harlem, a man shot another man in the back and fled in a blue car.

And again in East Harlem, a man got hit in the leg with a stray bullet after a man shot a group of men by a street corner.

In Midtown, a man stabbed another man in the back following an argument on the street in broad daylight.

Also in Midtown, a woman committed suicide by jumping from her apartment window of a luxury building.

Again in Midtown, a man got doored by a traffic cop coming out of his patrol car while riding his bike and then he punched the cop in the throat.

And again in Midtown, a man failed to hold up a bank when he gave a teller a note demanding 20 grand.

And again in Midtown at the 59th St./Lexington Ave Station, a woman threw a can of  beer at the conductor of 6 train when he opened his window.

And again in Midtown and again at the 59th St./Lexington Ave. Station, the N train arrived and was packed to the gills with commuters, making it impossible to adhere to social distancing guidelines.

The train got delayed because the dumbass city gave a permit for some shitty movie production that was using an N train at Ditmars Ave. for a film shoot.

And again in Midtown, the billionaire row tower with the spinning crane defecated chunks of glass from the top of the building to the street below.

And again in Midtown, a man wanted for a robbery while on parole hit the gas after he got pulled over by the cops. After he hit one of the detectives, the skell smashed up a row of parked vehicles and crashed into a food cart. The man escaped after he abandoned the car and ran into the subway, but got eventually got caught and arrested a few days later.

And again in Midtown, a man died in a car wreck when a tractor trailer driver collided into his vehicle running a red light.

And again in Midtown at the 42nd St./Bryant Park Station, a homeless man got into an argument with another man he tried to panhandle money from on the platform and then he assaulted him and pushed him onto the tracks. The attacker was previously arrested for an assault of a commuter back in January at the 23rd St. Station.

And again in Midtown at the 103rd St. Station, a man got randomly targeted for assault by another man who walked up to him and savagely beat him up.

And again in Midtown, a man got stabbed to death in front of a dollar slice pizzeria after being surrounded by a gang. The next morning, a man got stabbed in the middle of the street five blocks south as a bunch of suspects fled down to the subway.

And again in Midtown, a man stuck up a food delivery worker at gunpoint by a McDonalds who claimed the order he was carrying belonged to him.

And again in Midtown, NYC Sheriffs raided a bar that was holding a bottle party with 400 patrons partying like it’s the end of the world.

And again in Midtown, two men with sledgehammers destroyed a window of a luxury watch store and easily pilfered over $24,000 worth of merchandise that were on display.

And again in Midtown, Mayor de Blasio greeted one of his constituents and the man told him to go get fucked.

And again in Midtown, a man in a MAGA cap carrying a 10 foot pole with an American flag attached mouthed off to a cop and refused her order to disperse after he kept picking a fight with another man.

In Inwood, two men carjacked a vehicle at gunpoint by kicking out a man from the drivers seat and ejecting two other women riding with in the backseat.

In the Upper West Side, two fights over parking spaces occurred minutes apart, one of them between two men led to one of them getting socked in the eye and his eventual arrest coming from the blowback effects of outdoor dining with shanty seating setups on the road curbs. de Blasio’s stupid ass decision to mandate this dining even if the pandemic ends, scenarios like this will be just as common.

Also in the Upper West Side, Brooklyn Borough President and candidate for Mayor Eric Adams held a fundraiser dinner at a restaurant as he and his donors clustered and dined together while being above the city and state pandemic guidelines indoor capacity limit.

Again in the Upper West Side, a woman slashed a 10-year-old boy in the face inside an apartment building.

And again in the Upper West Side,at the 96th St. Station, two men got into a tussle and one of them got slashed in the face on the platform

In Hell’s Kitchen, a woman smacked a camera out of a NYPD detective’s hand during a protest march.

Also in Hell’s Kitchen, a man had his luxury sports car damaged when two men riding on a moped broke his rear view mirror while cutting him off. During a dispute on how the duo were going to reimburse the man for the damage and got ridiculed by witnesses laughing at one of their offers, they beat down the man and stole his keys and drove the car to the Bronx and crashed it.

Again in Hell’s Kitchen, a man shot another man in his ass to settle a disagreement about a drug transaction.

In Chelsea, a speakeasy exclusive hookah party at a building loft got raided by the NYC sheriffs.

Also in Chelsea at the 23rd St. Station, a man engaged in a dispute with a transit worker cleaning the platform and then punched him in the face.

In the East Village, a homeless man got into a row with a coffee cart vendor after he tried to steal money from his tip cup. Then the man yanked out a shrubbery from a planter and threw it at the cart and then took out a box cutter while they were brawling with each other. After the vendor kicked his ass, the cops let the vagrant go and then an ambulance arrived to take him away.

Also in the East Village, a fire ignited inside a vacant apartment building raged into a five-alarm inferno that engulfed and destroyed a 130 year-old church next door and a shelter for women next door that left 22 residents homeless.

In the West Village, a man got stabbed in the back three times by a man he was arguing with while a protest march was going on.

Also in the West Village at the 14th St. Station, a man got killed when the 1 train hit him in the tunnel.

In Union Square, a homeless man ran towards a woman standing on the 4,5,6 train platform and pushed her onto the express tracks right when the 5 train arrived. The woman managed to survive as she landed in the middle of the trackbed as the train rolled over her

Also in Union Square,$500,000 worth of copper wire in spools and off the tunnel’s walls were burglarized a month ago. They were discovered stolen following a maintenance check at the station. Across town on the 1,2,3 subway lines, 30,000 feet of copper wire worth 10 large got burglarized from the stations from 34 St. to Canal St.

In Washington Square Park, an 18-year-old man got stabbed in the arm while brawling with another man.

Also in Washington Square Park, NYPD aggressively bounced out men and women who were hanging out after closing time.

In the Lower East Side, a  19-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy attacked a man from behind and whacked him with a shower rod and a baby stroller on the sidewalk. Looks like they decided to utilize other people’s trash instead of their skillz.

Also in the Lower East Side, a man snatched a purse off an 85-year-old woman as she was sitting on a park bench and then pushed her to the ground.

Again in the Lower East Side, a man fired shots at a group of people in front of a building, hitting one man in the leg.

And again in the Lower East Side, a man exited a car and shot at a man down the street, hitting his ankle.

In Chinatown, two men grabbed an autistic 14-year-old boy on the sidewalk, threw him up against the scaffolding by a homeless shelter and then beat him down and robbed his backpack and jacket in broad daylight.

In Soho, a man who got arrested for randomly punching Rick Moranis on the sidewalk threw a bottle of champagne at the owner of liquor store and beat him down after he got caught shoplifting.

Also in Soho, a man impersonating a cop failed to hijack a city bus that he wanted to use to go to Brooklyn.

In Greenwich Village, a man driving while intoxicated exited a parking garage and crashed his Benz into an open street shanty seating area in front of a restaurant.

In the Upper East Side, a state senators office got bombed with black paint following three prior incidents of anti-Semetic graffiti tagged on her windows.

Also in the Upper East Side, a man snatched threw an 88-year-old woman on the sidewalk and stole her purse.

At the Grand Central Station, a man engaged in an argument with another man on the 4 train decided to end the dispute by slashing him in the face with a knife, then another man butted in and sucker punched the victim in the face and they all got into a wild rumble on the platform when they got off the train.

In NoMad, a man approached and then manhandled a woman with her two children and tried to abduct one of her kids from her stroller while claiming he was the father. Then a Samaritan with superior fighting skills wrestled him to the ground and applied a martial arts hold and kept him restrained until the cops arrived.

In Hudson Yards, two men got injured while washing windows on a 100-story tower when their scaffold broke under them while they were 50 stories high and they fell 20 feet and landed on the roof of the 35th floor after sliding 10 stories down the building. 

In Times Square, a man ran up to the Naked Cowboy and pulled down his underwear while he was singing a John Denver song.

Also in Times Square, a man killed himself by touching the third rail inside the train tunnel. 

In Penn Station, a woman committed suicide by jumping in front of the arriving 1 train.

In Murray Hill, a man jumped into a newspaper delivery van and stole it, taking it for a joyride up and downtown and smacked two NYPD patrol cars and injuring three cops and ending his sojourn by crashing it into a stop sign by his apartment building.

Also in Murray Hill, a delivering a half a million dollars worth of medical surgical tools to a building had his jeep easily stolen after he left the key in the ignition.

In Downtown Manhattan at the Tombs, an inmate committed suicide by hanging himself with a blanket in his cell and another inmate slashed a C.O. and stabbed a C.O. Captain in the knee with a shiv while they were escorting him to another area in the prison.

An attention craving hipster doofus is crawling around the streets on his hands in a rat costume and a majority of people don’t give a shit. Not because “it’s New York” but because people have a lot of other things to think about trying to get by in a failed state run by morons. A real artist would have tore through those garbage bags and fed on the detritus. Meanwhile, actual rats of unusual sizes have been running wild on the streets of the Upper West Side with one so large it got stuck underneath a crevice of a wall by Central Park.

Car theft  continues it’s nagging ascent with 70% more vehicles reported stolen following a scourge of thefts occurring during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Leading precincts to advise citizens to go back to the Club.

Queens

 

In Flushing, a homeless man was found dead in a box in front of a store with the gate down.

Also in  Flushing, two men got into a row over a parking space that escalated into a street fight. When one of the men got back in his car, his foe smacked it with his baseball bat and then the driver plowed into him and crashed into a bakery that was having a grand opening.

Again in Flushing, at the Main St. Station a man grabbed a woman’s ass and ran away.

In Springfield Gardens, a man employed as security guard for CUNY strangled his wife during a domestic dispute, leading her to go the 105th Precinct for help and two cops were deployed to escort her back to her home. While they were helping her gathering her belongings to go to a temporary shelter, her husband arrived minutes later and took out his gun and got into a shootout with the cops inside his house and got killed by the returning gunfire. The dead man had his city issued guns removed from him by CUNY in the summer for threatening to kill his wife and gave it back to him weeks before this incident, using one of the weapons in his attack against the heroic cops. 

Also in Springfield Gardens, two stepbrothers got killed from a gang related drive-by shooting. The driver crashed his car through a fence that toppled over after he and his front seat passenger got blasted from their assailants who shot them from a car that passed on the other side of the boulevard . A woman and her 4-year-old child who were in the back seat survived the wreck and the assassination.

In South Richmond Hill, two men invaded a home and took three women and a baby hostage at gunpoint while they were looking for cash left behind by a man they knew who died of cancer. When the standoff ended, the two recidivist criminals were tripping on angel dust and requested an order of pizza from the cops.

Also in South Richmond Hill, a man grabbed a 64-year-old woman from behind and held a knife to her throat in broad daylight during her commute to work to her job in the area. Then he released her and ran away with nothing when she resisted.

Again in South Richmond Hill, Brooklyn Borough President and candidate for Mayor Eric Adams again violated pandemic guidelines and held another fundraiser at a nite club/restaurant with his donors in a state mandated yellow zone infection case area.

In Rockaway Park, two men got stabbed by a 17-year-old boy during a street fight between them and the boy’s crew following an exchange of dirty looks. One of them died from strike to the chest and the other man survived jabs to his arm.

In Far Rockaway, a man got shot in the leg on the sidewalk.

In Averne, a man broken into a tow pound lot and set a truck he owned on fire that was previously impounded by them. Then the flames spread to other vehicles parked in the lot and caught onto a neighboring building and onto his face.

In Rego Park, a Muslim family got accosted by a man and a woman near their apartment building and then were victimized in a xenophobic attack. The woman grabbed the mother’s hajib off her head and when the husband tried to defend her, the couple beat him down to the ground while yelling jingoistic slogans and xenophobic slurs at him in front of their two children. The goon and a group of his toadies loitered in front of their apartment building the next day and menaced the family again. The attack followed weeks of persistent harassment and by the couple towards them.

In Jamaica, a cop from the 113th Precinct got arraigned on drug trafficking charges for his involvement in a cocaine distribution ring with two other men he ran with for four years.

Also in Jamaica, a man shot another man in the eye with a paintball gun.

Again in Jamaica, a man recently released from prison mugged a person and gunpoint and got caught by cops possessing two guns.

And again in Jamaica at the Jamaica Center/Parsons Blvd. Station, a 17-year-old boy got robbed of his $800 sneakers his airpods and his bookbag after a woman stuck him up at knife point and three other men beat him down to the floor.

In South Jamaica, a man shot up another man while pursuing him in a car chase on the Van Wyck Expressway.

In Jamaica Hills, a man went berzerk inside a pancake house when a worker told him to wear a face mask while ordering and then he attacked the staff with a knife, slashing a woman employee in the arm.

In Astoria, a man was shot three times while hanging out in front of a gambling den and nite club building with an awning displaying a name for a ministry.

Also in Astoria, a delivery man killed himself when he tried to turn into a bike lane on his moped and got run over by a truck that was making a turn at the same time.

Again in Astoria, a delivery man got crushed to death by 18-wheeler truck as he and the driver were turning at the same time.

And again in Astoria, a clumsy man attempted to break into a woman’s apartment on  the second floor by climbing a fence but fell on his ass after she saw him and screamed. The hapless bandit was more successful in three other burglaries he committed where  he was able to access apartments with ease through unlocked windows and made off with over $8,000 in cash and property.

And again in Astoria, NYC sheriffs raided a storefront building and discovered a swingers club with 80 patrons insideand shut it down for violating pandemic guidelines. And probably stopped a spread of STD’s as well as COVID-19.

And again in Astoria, a man threw a ceramic cup at an NYPD van and ran away.

In Long Island City, a man held up a woman at knifepoint and robbed her purse by the Queensbridge Houses.

Also in Long Island City, an off duty cop jogging on the streets was jumped and beaten down by a gang of six men.

Again in Long Island City at the Queens Plaza Station, a man stuck a knife at another man on the platform and failed to rob him when his mark resisted his attempt.

And again in Long Island City and again at the Queens Plaza Station, a man randomly sucker punched a man while he was talking on his cellphone on the platform.

And again in Long Island City, a man got shot in the back at a birthday party he attended.

In Middle Village, a man who stole a bulldog from his relatives stepped out of his house and brandished an automatic gun to a detective that was standing in front of his car.when he was staking him out. The man then ran back inside and cops and federal agents arrived and arrested him after finding two more automatic weapons,a bulletproof vest and 85 kilos of cocaine. 

Also in Middle Village, an 85-year-old woman got killed when she got hit by a car while jaywalking.

Again in Middle Village, a 75-year-old woman got hit by car while jaywalking.

In Richmond Hill,Kew Gardens and Forest Park, a man sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman on the street and then he picked up a 14-year-old girl and tried to rape her in a bush and then sexually assaulted a woman jogging on a trail in a span of three hours in  broad daylight. The creep tried to pull their pants down in each attack and all of them resisted by yelling and fighting him off. His stepfather ratted him out to the cops leading to his arrest.

In Corona, cars are being parked on the sidewalks by auto body shops.

Also in Corona, NYC sheriffs raided a building and ended a party attended by over 70 people and alcohol consumption was going on.

In Woodside, a man killed himself when he crashed his motorcycle into a pillar while speeding on the streets.

In Maspeth, an off-duty caught a man about to sell a gun on a street corner and dropped his ass to the sidewalk.who

Also in Maspeth, a woman found dead and bleeding lying under a pickup truck.

Again in Maspeth, a parked livery car got swallowed by a sinkhole on a freshly repaved street.

In Ridgewood, a man broke into an apartment and robbed jewelry and airpods

In Jackson Heights, looters raided an apartment building and ripped open packages and boxes that were delivered by amazon and stole the merchandise contained in them.

In Elmhurst at the Woodhaven Blvd. Station, a man got killed by an arriving train at 3:30 a.m. Which is when the subway is closed to commuters

In Forest Hills, a man at an upscale brand bike shop ripped off an $11,000 bike after he fooled the salesperson into thinking he was going to test ride it.

Also in Forest Hills, at the 71st Ave./Continental Ave. Station, a man got caught jerking off on the E train.

In Laurelton, a man got run over by a train while he was wandering on the LIRR tracks.

In Cambria Heights, a man walked up to a parked car with a sub-machine gun and shot up three men who were inside, killing one and maiming two.

In Briarwood, a man stabbed another man two times and robbed $670 off him after confronting him on the sidewalk.

In Kew Gardens Hills, a doctor got killed in a car crash by a drunk driver who ran a red light while going nearly 100 mph.

Also in Kew Gardens Hills, a man got shot in the leg following an argument with two other men on the street.

In Fresh Meadows, a man broken into an animal clinic and robbed property from cabinet drawers.

In South Ozone Park,a man got shot near the Van Wyck Expressway.

Also in South Ozone Park, a man killed himself and injured his passenger when he crashed his car into a pillar after speeding on the Belt Parkway.

In Queens Village, a man got shot in the leg in a drive-by from a man who blasted at him from the car’s sunroof

At JFK Airport, a man pulled out a gun and got into a showdown with Port Authority cops who easily disarmed him when they found it wasn’t loaded.

In College Point, two men got busted running a COVID snake oil scheme by distributing and selling ID like aromatic cards that contained bleach and incesticide chemicals, purporting to sterilize against the virus by wearing them around the neck and over the chest area so the consumer would inhale the vapors coming from them. This was inspired by one of Donald Trump’s early pressers with his COVID response team when he asked Dr. Brix about injecting bleach into the lungs as a remedy for the novel virus.

Brooklyn

In Sunset Park at the 36th St. Station, a man who worked as an aide for Mayors Bloomberg and de Blasio and his wife got mugged on the platform for their wedding bands and her engagement ring while they were with their 2-year-old child who was sleeping during the incident. The perp walked up to them while the man was on his cellphone and demanded property from them and gave up their rings when the woman noticed he was packing heat as her husband verbalized how shocked he was that he was getting robbed. The thief is suspected for three other armed robberies;  two of them that happened in the subway also where he held up a woman at the 8th St. Station in Coney Island and when he stuck up a woman and robbed her engagement ring and one that happened in an office building where he stuck up a man  waiting for the elevator at gunpoint, making off with a ring and his necklace. The mugger accrued about 13 large in baubles. So this isn’t much of a shock at all.

In Bed-Stuy, a rapper looking for viral fame stood on top of an ice cream truck he and his associates rented then leapt onto a bus that was standing beside stalled in traffic. Then he took his flamethrower and shot into the air above him and then shot onto the road to make a puddle of flame to jump onto for dramatic effect. The M.C. decided to turn himself in while hoping to get an endorsement deal for designer clothing to wear while being frogmarched to the precinct, even though he was already wearing an expensive winter coat by Canada Goose.

Also in Bed-Stuy, a man went to his ex-girlfriends apartment and barged inside and stabbed her new boyfriend twice in the arm.

Again in Bed-Stuy, a man got shot twice on the street in broad daylight.

And again in Bed-Stuy, a 17-year-old boy shot at a city bus trying to injure or kill a rival gangbanger and missed and a stray bullet hit a 70-year-old woman in the face instead. Another stray bullet hit a man on the leg who was standing on the sidewalk.

The shooter ran away accompanied by a teenage girl.

The incident took place on a road the city painted a Black Lives Matter mural on. This one also contains the names of dozens of victims of police brutality whose lives were taken by gunfire and from excessive force.

And again in Bed-Stuy, seven people got shot by four gangbangers at a sweet 16 party at inside an apartment building in a gang-related attack following a dispute when the party was at an event hall that got stopped by the NYPD and when a 17-year-old boy got shot nearby on a street corner. A 20-year-old woman visiting from another state got killed as six other teenagers survived shots to their legs and torsos.

And again Bed-Stuy, a gang of eleven men chased a man and brutally beat him down in the middle of the street, causing him to lose an eye after being pummeled with kicks and getting stomped on his head. The attack got initiated when the gang assumed he was strapped.

And again in Bed-Stuy, a woman got forced out of an livery car and wound up on the street with critical injuries when a man crashed his ghoulish tricked out sports car into it after speeding down the avenue and running a red light.

The reckless driver was not arrested for some reason despite causing critical injuries to the woman and also to her driver and also the damage of the app-hail driver’s vehicle and his own, which he used for doing stunts in mall and department store parking lots and tearing up the city streets in various social media video posts.

And again in Bed-Stuy, a 9-year-old boy stabbed his 1-year-old sister in the stomach inside their home.

In East Flatbush, a man got into an argument with another man who came close to hitting him with his car as he was crossing the street. Then the driver took out a gun and shot at him and missed and the stray bullet hit a different man in the hand while he was a passenger in another vehicle.

Also in East Flatbush, two cops shot a stray pit bull to death after it bit it’s owner and another man.

Again in East Flatbush, a man shot another man to death following an argument they had in front of an auto body shop in broad daylight.

And again in East Flatbush, three men beat a man to death on the street after they thought the victim was trying to pick up one of the assailant’s sister at a bar.

And again in East Flatbush, a man got shot in the leg while on the street from a drive-by.

In Flatbush, a 16-year-old boy got shot in the hand when he tried to grab the gun off a man who stuck him up from behind to rob him.

And again in East Flatbush and Flatbush, a man and a woman bought a bunch of lighters and ignited fires on 5 school buses in a span of 3 weeks.

In Crown Heights, a man got shot to death in front of a deli on a street corner and wouldn’t disclose his killer’s identity traits to the cops. The victim previously served time in prison for shaking his baby boy to death.

Also in Crown Heights, a 14-year-old boy got shot in the leg on the street.

Again in Crown Heights, a man and a pregnant woman got shot on a street corner. The woman gave birth from a c-section operation while her wound was being treated while hospitalized.

And again in Crown Heights, a man got shot in the face from a drive-by shooter while hanging out with a group of people.

And again in Crown Heights, a teenage driver crashed a rental SUV into a house and injured two women inside then he and his passenger abandoned it and ran away.

And again in Crown Heights, a woman got shot in the knee on the street at the crack of dawn.

And again in Crown Heights, a man got shot twice in the middle of the block.

And again in Crown Heights, two men held up a deli by gun and knife point and robbed it of over $2,600 and got away even though the crook’s gun fell apart when he dropped it exiting the store.

In Downtown Brooklyn, a man savagely beat down a 79-year-old man on the sidewalk nearby the apartment building where the elderly man lived. The victim died from his injuries 2 months later.

Also in Downtown Brooklyn at the Barclays Center Station, a man sleeping on a bench on the platform awoken suddenly then ran towards a commuter and shoved him onto the tracks. The suspect got arrested in East New York at his home in Starett City.

Again in Downtown Brooklyn, a clerical snafu at the Criminal Courthouse released a 19-year-old man onto the streets after he got arraigned for attempted murder for shooting at people in a car.

And again in Downtown Brooklyn at the Barclays Arena/Atlantic Ave. Station, a man and a woman beat down a 60-year-old woman who told them to put masks on while they were entering the elevator with her and then tried to block them from getting on.

And again in Downtown Brooklyn, two men jumped a man while riding his bike and unsuccessfully tried to rob him after they laid a few punches on him. 

And again in Downtown Brooklyn, a man robbed a bunch of jackets from the Fulton Mall and punched a security guard in the face when he tried to stop him.

And again in Downtown Brooklyn, a man broke into a townhouse and robbed over $16,000 worth of bourbon from the basement.

In Park Slope at the Prospect Ave. Station, a man snatched a gold necklace from a woman’s neck on the platform and got busted trying to pawn it.

In Brooklyn Heights, a man was found dead on the stairs of an apartment building.

Also in Brooklyn Heights, two men robbed a portable ATM machine from a pizzeria.

Again in Brooklyn Heights, a man held up a deli with a fake gun and robbed it of $2,300.

And again in Brooklyn Heights at the High Street Station, a man stalked a woman on the platform and tried to mug her for her purse and failed.

And again in Brooklyn Heights and again at the High Street Station, a man stalked another man on the platform and slashed him in the face for no reason.

And again in Brooklyn Heights, a man stole condoms and cough syrup from a pharmacy after he menaced workers with a broken bottle.

In Greenpoint, a man driving an SUV tripping balls on drugs crashed into a barrier boulder on the sidewalk and severed the leg of a woman who was standing there for a moment.

In Red Hook, a man shot at a 17-year-old and hit him in three areas in front of a public housing building.

In Bushwick, a woman got killed while jaywalking when a cement truck sped down the avenue and hit her when she stepped on the road.

In Brownsville, a man ambushed his ex-girlfriend and shot her to death as she was about to enter her car.

Also in Brownsville, a woman got shot in the arm in a drive by as she was walking by a church.

Again in Brownsville, a 17-year-old boy got shot in the neck during a dispute with two other men on the street.

And again in Brownsville, a man got shot three times after he resisted giving up his belongings during a holdup.

And again in Brownsville, a man got shot at twice while he was sitting on a park bench.

And again in Brownsville, an MTA conductor got arrested for his participation in gun trafficking and distribution ring in his neighborhood with three other men, including one who killed a man for his ATM card 23 years ago. While arranging for another deal, he griped how hard it was to do business because a 1-year-old boy got killed by a stray bullet during a gang hit at a park where a BBQ party was going on. The bastards also tried to profit from the city’s gun buyback program with the trafficked weapons.

In East New York, a man got hit by a car after he ran a stop sign while riding his bike delivering food orders and died from his injuries a week later.

Also in East New York, a catering hall filled with 100 people during a DJ show got raided by the cops.

Again in East New York, a man got ambushed by three men in front of an apartment building at the Pink Houses and one of them shot him in the ear.

And again in East New York, a man got shot in the leg on the street in broad daylight.

And again in East New York, a man beat up his boyfriend with a hammer during a domestic dispute.

In Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, a man got shot in the head following an argument and a street fight he had with his assailant who fired at him 10 times in broad daylight in front of passerby. The victim died a few days later.

In Gravesend, a man got shot in the back while walking on the sidewalk from a man who fired at him from a car that was passing by.

In Midwood, a man attacked a 14-year-old girl then whipped out his dick and dragged her on the floor in a rape attempt in the hallway of a doctor’s office.

Also in Midwood, a woman ran over another woman while she was crossing the street with her car while making an illegal U-turn in the intersection under a red light.

In Bay Ridge at the Prospect Ave. Station, a man punched the R train conductor in the face when she stuck her head out of her cabin window.

In Canarsie, an off-duty cop wrecked his car by crashing into another vehicle while driving drunk.

Also in Canarsie, a man got shot to death inside a bar

Again in Canarsie, two men got shot on the sidewalk in a drive-by in broad daylight.

And again in Canarsie, a man got shot multiple times by an off-duty cop during a carjacking attempt. Along with the gun he shot he also possessed another gun that he stored in his buttcheeks.,

And again in Canarsie, a man got shot three times near a street corner.

In Cypress Hills, two men held up a bodega at gunpoint and robbed 750 bucks and the worker’s cellphone.

Also in Cypress Hills, a man got shot in the leg on the street and lost enough blood to wind up hospitalized in critical condition and another man got shot in the leg also on a street about a half mile south.

In Bushwick, five men waltzed into a nite club at 5 a.m. and held up a patron at gun and knife point and robbed four cellphones and a $700 chain off him.

In Weeksville, a man was shot three times on a street corner and died from his wounds.

In Weeksville, a boy got shot in the leg while turning a corner on the sidewalk.

In Carroll Gardens, a man got shot in the legs from a drive-by.

In Bensonhurst, a man robbed $230 from a minimarket after he stabbed a worker in the arm who tried to stop him.

Also in Bensonhurst, a man menaced another man with a knife on a street corner.

Again in Bensonhurst, a man got robbed of $1,000 after he got tricked by a man he arranged to meet to buy a gold chain from and then got held up at knifepoint.

In Seagate, two men attempted to robbed a woman inside of a bank and failed when samaritans intervened.

Also in Seagate, a man whacked another man in the knee with a pipe inside an apartment building.

In Sheepshead Bay, a man killed himself by crashing into a tree after speeding on the Belt Parkway.

In Bath Beach, a man snatched a purse containing $1,000 when a woman left it on the counter for a minute at a grocery store.

In Coney Island at the Stillwell Ave. Station, a man had his cellphone stolen while he slept on the F train.

Also in Coney Island, a man got shot to death while sitting on a park bench by the beach.

Again in Coney Island and again at the Stillwell Ave. Station, a man was found dead on the F train.

And again in Coney Island at the Kings Highway Station, a man held up a woman at gunpoint and robbed her cellphone.

In Borough Park, two men got shot by another man they argued with while they were inside a clothing store and wouldn’t divulge their assailants to the cops.

Also in Borough Park, pouring rain did not deter two men from mugging a man as he walking on the sidewalk by holding him at gunpoint and robbing his cellphones and 200 bucks.

In Fort Greene, a man pursued another man on a citibike in a bike chase and stabbed him in the torso and punched him.

Also in Fort Greene, a man held up another man at knifepoint and robbed $200 off him.

Again in Fort Greene at the Lafayette Ave. Station, a man ripped a cellphone out of another man’s hand on the C train and split.

And again in Fort Greene, two men held up a parking garage attendant at gunpoint and robbed a rental car.

And again in Fort Greene, a man ambushed a couple and held them up at knifepoint and bailed when they had no money to give them.

In Clinton Hill, a man broke into a storage unit and robbed a bunch of woodwind and percussion instruments worth about 30 grand.

Also in Clinton Hill, a man pummeled his father during a domestic dispute.

In Boerum Hill, two men held up a newsstand operator with a knife and robbed stacks of scratch lottery tickets worth $1,400.

Also in Boerum Hill, a man driving drunk ran over and killed a 64-year-old woman with his car while she was crossing the street.

Again in Boerum Hill, a man got caught trying to steal a washer-dryer machine from an apartment building.

In DUMBO, two men broke into an upscale pizzeria and stole over $200 worth of booze.

Also in DUMBO, a woman got grifted by a man who feigned to be a ConEd worker who threatened to shut her business’s power off if she didn’t transfer $3,850 in bitcoin to him.

In New Lots, a man got surrounded by three men in an apartment building lobby and got held up at gunpoint and knifepoint and was robbed of $1,800 and a few cellphones and then the victim found his tires slashed after the mugging.

In Williamsburg, a synagogue managed to clandestinely hold a wedding attended by 7000 people even though they are next to a firehouse and the FDNY have the authority to enforce state and city pandemic guideline restrictions to stop indoor gatherings of more than 15 people. The neighboring fire department decided to treat the event with insouciance and proffered that it’s against their guidelines to inform on their neighbors.

The city fined the synagogue $15,000, amounting to $2.50 for every person that attended. de Blasio dismissed journalists questions about the city’s insouciance of the brazen clustered event by noting what a big city we live in. Following the city’s feeble slap on the wrist fine, another heavily attended post-wedding reception at a shul that flaunted pandemic protocols occurred nearby without repression by authorities thanks to de Blasio’s endorsement.

Then another massive gathering of 7,000 people from the same Satmar community showed up to a funeral that for some fucking reason the city was not cognizant that it was even going down.

On the Williamsburg Bridge, a man on the J train was being an obstinate vector dick when other commuters were telling him to put on a face mask and he refused to. After being unreasonable and making lame ass excuses, he got shamed into going into the next train car to spread his pompous microbes.

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In Claremont, two newborn twin baby boys were found abandoned and dead wrapped in blue wrapper and a garbage bag on the ground in an alley behind an apartment building.

Also in Claremont, an 85-year-old man was shoved to the pavement by a woman who stole 7 bucks from him while she pinned him to the ground.

In Mount Eden, a man got shot to death in his car in broad daylight at point blank range by his assailant who came out of another vehicle nearby.

Also in Mount Eden, a 15-year-old boy and and a 15-year-old girl colluded to brutally beat and murder a woman at her apartment building after the victim distributed sexual photos of the girl on her social media account. Another boy who beat the woman with a cane got arrested for his involvement with the murder after his parents told him to turn himself in.

Again in Mount Eden, a man wearing a skull face mask shot at people on the street and blasted another round off before going inside a bodega. 

And again in Mount Eden, a man shot at two men and a 16-year-old boy in front of a train station on the Concourse in broad daylight. 

And again in Mount Eden, a woman attacked an 85-year-old man who was walking by her on the sidewalk and pushed him down to the pavement and stole 7 bucks from him.

And again in Mount Eden, a man got killed when he got run over by a car as he was lying down on middle of the street.

In Williamsbridge, a 72-year-old man got killed by a hit and run driver that ran him over while he was in the crosswalk and left him for dead, then got hit by another car when the driver didn’t see him lying on the road.

In Melrose, three men were shot at while hanging out on a street corner smoking cigarettes.

In Eastchester, a man stabbed a woman to death inside a motel room.

In Morrisania, two men got shot on their legs on the street.

In Concourse Village, a man got hit in the arm by a stray bullet while standing on the sidewalk.

In Morris Park, a man walked to a hospital after getting shot in the hand, then buttoned his lip when cops asked who shot him.

In Mott Haven, two men got shot on the grounds at the Mill Brook Houses.

Also in Mott Haven, a man crashed into a truck while riding his bike and died from his injuries.

Again in Mott Haven, a 71-year-old man got killed by a hit-and-run truck driver while on the crosswalk.

And again in Mott Haven, a man got shot in the leg following an argument on a street corner.

And again in Mott Haven, a man stabbed another man to death and slashed his girlfriend in the arm following an argument and threatening his target’s life on the street. The assailant was found to be acting in self-defense and got acquitted.

In the South Bronx, a man broke into an 89-year-old woman’s apartment at 2:30 in the morning and held her down on her bed and robbed 100 bucks from her.

Also in the South Bronx, three men got shot in the middle of a block.

In Soundview, a woman driving drunk killed a man by running him over with her car as he was riding a moped after he rode it on the sidewalk and went on the road.

Also in Soundview, a man got shot in the ass on the grounds of the Sotomoyer Houses.

Again in Soundview, a 13-year-old girl got shot in the knee from a man who shot at a group of men sitting on benches at the James Monroe houses right when she was saying goodnight to her boyfriend.

And again in Soundview, a man got killed when he got hit by a minivan while jaywalking.

And again in Soundview, a man got shot in the thumb when he got ambushed by two men trying to rob him after expecting to meet a pot dealer he wanted to score weed from an arrangement on social media.

And again in Soundview, a man got shot to death in a hallway of an apartment building following a fight over a woman with his assailant.

And again in Soundview, a man got beat down and also shot at when a gang of over 10 men attacked him by the Sotomoyer Houses and also beat up his son who tried to defend him.

And again in Soundview, a man fired shots at a parked car while riding a motorcycle and missed his mark.

In University Heights, two men both got shot in their backs following a heated dispute with two other men on the street.

In Wakefield, a 67-year-old man was stabbed to death inside his basement studio apartment.

In Fordham Manor, a man got shot to death on the street from a blast to his chest.

Also in Fordham Manor, a man got murdered on the street from a drive-by shooting.

In Belmont, a 17-year-old boy got shot in the leg engaging in a shootout with a couple other teenagers.

Also in Belmont, a 59-year-old woman was found dead with her neck strangled with a USB cord and a plastic bag over her head in the basement of her apartment. Her son, who left his girlfriend and their child behind in Florida, is suspected in the murder.

In Kingsbridge, NYC sheriffs raided a warehouse hookah party attended by 125 people and arrested four people who promoted it.

In Co-Op City, a 17-year-old boy got shot in the chest from a stray bullet while hanging out by the Bronx River.

In Edenwald, a man wanted for shooting a state trooper (named John Lennon) and stealing a car in Cape Cod got into a shootout with U.S. Marshals in a apartment building he tried to hide in and fired at them immediately when they were let inside the apartment by a resident. The fugitive died and two marshals got hit during the fusillade exchange.

In Morris Heights, a woman running a smoke shop got held at gunpoint twice by the same man in a little over a week. The first time he robbed her store, the thief sticks his gun at her and although she complies and gives him the money, he reaches through the protective plastic to rifle through the register to grab more cash. The second time the woman recognized him and resisted at first and then the two crooks went behind the counter.

While one of thugs grabbed her and dragged her on the floor, his accomplice jumped over her frightened 5-year-old daughter and stole the tray from the register containing $700 as she ran and watched her mother get dragged outside by the recidivist bastard. Her Motherhas not been able to pay rent for her struggling small business since the virus hit the city in March.

In Concourse Village, a man got shot to death in a hallway inside an apartment building.

In Throggs Neck, a massive fire engulfed three apartment buildings and left 19 people homeless and injured two firemen.

Also in Throggs Neck, an off-duty cop showed up to work stinking drunk.

In Foxhurst, an argument between two men on the street at a bus stop escalated when one of the men shot the other in the leg.

In Pelham Parkway, an off-duty cop crashed his car into an other car on the Bruckner Expressway while driving drunk, injuring two people in the vehicle he rammed.

In Van Nest, a man indicted for robbing a jewelry store of $500,000 worth of merchandise back in June is still on the lam following a virtual court hearing in October.

In City Island, an off-duty cop brutally beat down his wife during a domestic dispute at their home.

In Bedford Park, a woman got onto an empty city bus and the driver drove to a secluded spot and then molested her.

In Concourse Village, a man got shot to death with a blast to in a hallway at his apartment building.

Also in Concourse Village, a man grabbed a woman from behind inside a deli as she was making a purchase and robbed 25 bucks off her.

In Norwood, a dead man’s decomposed body was found by trees on a golf course.

In Highbridge, a man shot another man in the groin to settle an argument on the street.

In Melrose, a livery cab driver crashed into a fire engine that was responding to an emergency call, injuring all passengers.

In Marble Hill, a 10-year-old boy was found alone in an apartment on fire on the 7th floor and rescued by the FDNY.

In Castle Hill, a dump truck toppled over and spilled a ton of asphalt on the Bruckner Expressway. Praise Jehovah that it wasn’t toxic lime green paint for bike lanes.

In Hunts Point, a fight club event in a warehouse attended by 200 people in violation of pandemic guidelines got raided by the cops. Two promoters and eight other people were arrested and two loaded guns were found on the premises .

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In Clifton, a man in a white SUV shot at a group of men hanging out in front of an apartment building during a drive-by and a stray bullet hit a woman in the head while she was standing in the lobby with her daughter and a friend of hers. The woman died a week later after being taken off life support. Frustrated residents of the Park Hill Apartments has witnessed an uptick of violence, gatherings and loitering stemming from heavy drug dealing activity. 

In Tompkinsville, a man got stabbed to death behind the wheel of his minivan by a man he was smoking crack with who attacked him when he didn’t have 10 bucks to pay him for the drugs. The victim previously served time for killing a 16-year-old boy in a hit-and-run while fleeing assailants shooting at him and was scheduled for a court hearing from an arrest after he stabbed a man with screwdriver. He was permitted release from jail because of pandemic protocols.

In Arrochar, a man filming a rap video in a parking lot got disrupted by two men who rolled up in a car and shot him after confronting the rapper.

In Great Kills, a man broke into a bagel shop/deli by kicking through a wall of another store and robbed it of $30,000 as the rash of eatery burglaries continues in Shaolin.

In Port Richmond, two men broke into a man’s house and shot him while trying to steal his property.

In Rosebank, two men held up a cellphone store at gunpoint and robbed it of $800 and a worker’s wallet and necklace.

In New Brighton, two men were caught in possession of illegal guns and ammunition during two traffic stops.

Also in New Brighton, a man was found walking in the middle of the street in traffic with a loaded gun in his hand.

In Mariners Harbor, a man got pinched by the cops who found him behind his apartment building possessing an loaded gun.

Also in Mariners Harbor, a man got caught with a loaded gun in his car after cops pulled him over for running a red light.

In Donegan Hills, a man got critically injured when he got hit by car while crossing the street and got hit by an SUV driving alongside from the impact.

Also in Donegan Hills, a bagel shop owner got into a row with two cops who were hanging out by his store in their unmarked patrol car and were making disruptive noises and harassing him and his family. Then the cops threatened to arrest the man and their backup arrived and they all roughed him up and brought him to the precinct.

In Port Richmond, a woman got pushed down a flight of stairs by a man following an exchange of money and he decided to stiff her for 10 bucks.

Also in Port Richmond, a trend of home invasion burglaries are being committed by crooks feigning to be utility company repairmen targeting elderly residents.

Again in Port Richmond, a man who beat up another man with a metal pipe following an argument was found in possession of a makeshift shotgun and ammunition after cops arrested him for the assault.

And again in Port Richmond, a man held up a woman at gunpoint and robbed her purse on the sidewalk and broke her cellphone.

In St. George, a man walking home after picking up Chinese takeout got ambushed by three men and got smacked around and held up at knifepoint and robbed his food.

In Seaview, a man shot another man three times inside his apartment.

In Tompkinsville, a man got busted for drug dealing by undercover cops when a bag of smack fell from his pants pocket.

In Stapleton, a man easily stole a car left unattended and with the keys in the ignition while the owner was inside a deli.

A woman was found dead floating in the water by the Verazzano Bridge.

In New Dorp, a man got killed when he got hit by a bus crossing the street with a red light.

Also in In Grant City, a bar co-owner got arrested by NYC sheriffs for serving drinks and food without masks while holding a one man army protest against New York State’s pandemic protocols and COVID zone designations by declaring the property of his business as an “autonomous zone”.  After he got arrested, S.I. residents and a sect of the right-wing activist group the Proud Boys showed up with American and Blue Lives Matter flags to rally in solidarity behind the bar.

A few days after the night rally, the bar co-owner continued to defy the pandemic  guidelines and regulations. Then he got confronted by the NYC Sheriffs officers after he closed and ran away from them, got in his jeep and proceeded to run over one of the deputies and drove a few blocks with the cop on the hood. The leisure revolutionary wound up getting caught and arrested and immediately released on his own recognizance after charges for resisting arrest, reckless driving menacing and vehicular assault for intentionally injuring a police officer.

The contrasts between between the two protest demonstrations after election day and the public assembly for this hole in the wall bar in Staten Island and the response by authorities are blatantly and stunningly egregious. This mild-mannered maniac proprietor/bartender runs over a cop and gets released in a day while people marching on the streets in the Villages gets subjected to ultraviolence from the NYPD for even a an accidental nudge to an officer. Plus the fact that this bartender wouldn’t have got away with this unscathed or even still be alive if he was a Black or Latino bartender.

Then there are the hundreds of S.I. residents (and some visitors from nearby states) clustering on a street in solidarity for the bar while standing on top of sheriff patrol cars and the most Commissioner Shea sends are four or five cops to guard Mac’s door for a few hours. No choppers, no pepper spray, no bike cops, no MOVE BACK MOVE BACK.

Mayor de Blasio’s doesn’t even has an answer for this. More likely he thinks the revolution in Staten Island is going to fade away if he doesn’t mention it. Just like all that police brutality he continues to ignore. Just like the stealth mass gathering events arranged by the Satmar communities in Brooklyn. All these indications of contagion that are in his face (and everyone else’s) even while speakeasy raves and bottle parties are getting repressed throughout the boroughs.

Then the mayor has the audacity to chastise parents for being too cautious sending their kids back to school even though a lot of them can’t, like the mother running small her business on the brink of bankruptcy in the Bronx. Yet some kook bartender is running a revolution in plain sight while co-opting the antifa-like tactics of political movements that he the Blaz ideologically agrees with.

Something stinks to high hell about all of this. To be continued in the next episode in Impunity City.

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A Police State Grows In Brooklyn And Permeates The News Coverage.

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Sunset Park and Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y., America

This was some week in Kings County (that’s Brooklyn to all those only familiar with the brand) for high profile encompassing police activity.

It all started early Saturday morning in Sunset Park last week when 5 men ganged up on another man on the street and one of the perpetrators hit the victim with his gun. The goons ran into a motorcycle club with beat cops on pursuit and hid out there amongst revelers as a party was still raging from the night before.

As the suspects refused to come out, the NYPD came back with a warrant and extra backup to dredge them out. Which is actually understating  it, because they came with a virtual army.

(Photos by Theodore Presirienne, NY Daily News)

In what looks like a real-time embedded report by the NY Daily News, the militaristic deployment of local cops dressed in helmets, shields and toting automatic rifles which usually shows a presence at major transit hubs, parades and civil assembly protests crashed the party and emptied out the club of everyone inside and detained the suspects,who actually came out by themselves and surrendered, as they scared the shit out of the citizenry in the vicinity in a scene that looked like it was raid of a suspected hideout of a terrorist group in Fallujah or Gaza or a invasion by President Assad’s own armed forces in a town he would consider gassing in Syria.

Residents including students on spring break in nearby apartment buildings with views of the dramatic raid were told by the cops to stay away from their windows when they were about to film it on their phones, supposedly for their safety in case there was a shootout. Which makes no goddamn sense considering the ratio of firepower the militia outside was packing to the single gun the thugs used to bash a guy. The suspects eventually came out and surrendered and managed to get everyone inside detained and held in a paddy wagon for hours for their little street crime.

What gives this a high level of intrigue, especially considering that people were being discouraged/ordered by the cops not to film the “standoff”, is how the story was published by Tronc on the Daily News website and the city’s hometown newspaper.

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Although the digital version has the complete story, the print edition just went with a photo montage and a eerily positive headline:

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The online story also underplayed the role the militarized cops from the Emergency Services Division as the print version shows the presence of a armored personnel carrier, or what is more commonly known as a tank.

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What the hell is this cop aiming at anyway? There has to be a wider resolution picture that this derived from. And what the fuck is a tank doing there on a local street in Brooklyn that you would normally see in NY Times international section of military incursions in a local town in Syria or Yemen. And again, what the fuck is a tank with a cop pointing his rifle at a steel roll down gated storefront when there were snipers on the roofs of buildings where people lived who were told not to film anything. The same can be asked for this grandiose and pointless use of military hardware and ordinance for a what is basically a typical arrest attempt of a group of hoodlums.  Unless the point is to show dominance and intimidation to the citizenry to accept a misleading sense of security and safety and a disturbing and risky new method to detain suspected criminals. Clearly the only people who were endangering the public weren’t only the thugs hiding out in some dank club for a few hours but the excessive frightening display of a militarized police force that looked like they were about to throw a coup against a dictator.

The potential for someone getting hit in the crossfire in the chance of any of these weapons being utilized in a dense local area is not being considered at all by N.Y.’s finest, mostly from the orders of the high brass in the precinct in that area or even from One Police Plaza (eh, Commissioner?).

Well, it’s fortunate it didn’t come to that. This time. Since the raid was confirmed to have come to a peaceful end.

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Not so peaceful is the fact that there is absolutely no footage from the militaristic raid, when everything these days is instagrammed, facebooked and twittered by the public.

After this raid reached it’s peaceful end, it might have been safe to assume that some cops might stick around and canvas the area for the rest of the day to protect the public from other street fights or any other random criminal act or more likely to deter sexual assaults since reported rapes are up 25% in the city (no thanks to Harvey Weinstein). But somehow later in the evening there were no cops available by a karaoke club in Sunset Park, where a man inside was stabbed three times in the chest and died after he hailed a cab to take him to a hospital.

But this contradictory coverage of this raid pales in comparison as the vertical integration of journalism imposed by the police reached a nadir a few days later.

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In Crown Heights, a man named Saheed Vassell was roaming around the streets holding a metal object pretending to shoot at people. He stopped at a corner in front of a fruit market when 3 patrol vehicles rolled up after 3 911 calls were placed. 5 cops, three plain clothes and two in uniform came out and immediately fired as they exited their cars after Vassal raised his arms holding the object. In less than 10 seconds, 4 of the cops shot him 10 times, 9 bullets hitting vital organs, instantly killing him as he bled on the concrete.

The metal object was a disassembled welding torch.

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Video footage of Vassal of menacing passerby from store and street cameras was released by the NYPD a day after the shooting interspersed with dictated 911 calls (it’s swift release which CBS News website found to be unusual) . The video has no audio, making it impossible to determine the reactions of the callers or the operators.

 

 

A lot has been written more about Vassell than the 5 cops who showed up and gunned him down. Saheed was a former welder suffering from bipolar disorder, he lived with his family in a two-bedroom apartment and was well-known and beloved by the community there who knew about his mental condition but did not consider him threatening, had a friend who was shot dead by a cop as he tried to steal a car, he had 23 prior arrests.

But as for the 5 cops who gunned him down, no info at all but what the NYPD chose to release. Particularly the alleged fact proffered that the 5 cops assigned to the scene that they never shot at anyone before on duty, have all served on the force for about 6 years (all of them?) and the racial makeup of the officers were two white men, two black men and a southeast Asian man, this being the most specifically transparent of all the information the NYPD released so far. All of the cops were not equipped with body cams. The three plainclothes cops come from the anti-terror and anti-crime units. After shooting him down, the cops cuffed him.

Video footage of when the actual shooting took place was released just a day ago in the NY Post five days after the initial video above showing people running from the scene of the incident and a group of men walking towards Vassell across the street. The video like the others has no audio.

When Saheed’s father went to Kings County hospital to see his son in the medical examirer’s lab, he was turned away by “officials” there, refusing to let him see his son’s body.

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The NY Post assisted the NYPD’s narrative by taking witnesses claims of Vassal as unhinged and terrorizing citizens before the shooting and a story in the NY Daily News describing one witness opinion that it was a clean shoot. The shooting went down less than 10 seconds, during that brief period according to the NYPD, cops exited their vehicles and ordered Vassell to drop it 3 times, Vassell aim his object and the cops shot him down. Although CBSNY interviewed two witnesses  that claimed no one said a word or even a warning that they were cops, which runs counter to the alleged claims of the NYPD’s source, also an unnamed cop, being that they will not release the names of the officers who fired the shots making it difficult to determine who actually gave the warning since no one knows who these cops are.

In the NY Daily News another witness who also never heard any verbal warnings from the cops described the swift reaction to the shooting by describing it as a hit. But judging how quick the cops were to shoot and how precise their shots were to bring him down (with the exception of one bullet that missed and hit a chicken restaurant nearby) and the fact (of the few available) that three of the cops came from special divisions conveys that it was something that the CIA would pull on a suspected terrorist or a foreign adversary. Which makes this incident just as similar and frightening as the militarized police deployment in Sunset Park.

Even though this has shooting has ignited outrage from the community in Crown Heights, the NYPD has meticulously macro-managed the incident. Even though it’s being covered in the daily papers, it has barely made news on television. (And for some reason, it has not been covered by progressive news sources like The Young Turks, as their youtube channel has not made any videos discussing this tragic and preventable shooting even though they have been meticulous in covering every story regarding excessive police force throughout the nation.)

Press conferences following the shooting from NYPD brass have been startling, starting with cop still calling what Vassell was holding a gun even after it was verified it was a piece of junk. Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce stressed how the cops did not have time for other options so they had to fire giving the immediate threat of Vassal’s stance. Even Mayor de Blasio, who was quick to the punch to prosecute a cop for firing his gun and killing Deborah Danner in her apartment when she swung a bat at him, defended this erasatz professional street killing by citing the split second decision the cops assigned there had to make.

Which flies in the face of the neighborhood policing campaign the city has been promoting for the last month. Vassell was a familiar fixture in the neighborhood and everyone knew he was mentally ill but not a consistent threat. Vassell was also well known by the cops in the precinct there so why the necessity to send undercover cops in unmarked vehicles instead of utilizing the neighborhood policing policy and sending precinct cops instead. (Maybe the two uniformed officers were from the precinct covering that area? Everyone is going to have to wait for that.)

And if there was only a split second to predetermine that Vassell was a danger to citizens and to the cops who rolled up, why couldn’t they take another second to determine that he was wielding a piece of junk so to avoid a tragedy and endangering the citizens and children around there? Considering that even in those 911 transcripts that no shots were fired and people couldn’t tell it was a weapon. Or maybe take another second to utilize a pair of binoculars to see what Vassal was actually holding. Because what he was pointing at them with was garbage. It didn’t have a trigger or a handle to grip on.

Apparently what was utilized instead was the precision policing program that is normally used to neutralize gang violence and gun dealing on one disturbed individual.

And what about those 911 calls. In every heavily publicized policing incident, the audio is readily available. The rationale for not disclosing these calls equally makes no sense and is open to interpretation and cynical suspicion. Is it to prevent people from telling what races the callers are? Being that Crown Heights has seen a rising racial makeup change because of rapid gentrification in the town. But why should that matter because these three callers were only worried about the safety of the people on the street at the time. How are could they or more particularly their voices be culpable for the death of Saheed?

Despite constant reassurances from high brass and our mayor, Vassal’s family and the people of Crown Heights as well as every other citizen demanding answers and full accountability and full transparency are being undermined by the machinations of the NYPD of what is ostensibly to build their case to justify the shooting as the investigation by the A.G. is in it’s nascent stage. As all the conflating descriptions of the shooting by the anonymous cops is set to assure their acquittal or even file a case against them at all.

If there are conflations to be made relevant to this killing of an innocent though mentally disturbed man, the manufactured justification for it to go with the media manipulation of the evidence and the coverage, look no further than any of the shootings resulting from excessive force in the midst of an arrest or an escalation during a routine stop or suspicion in the widespread publicized killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castle, Tamir Rice and Ramarley Graham, whose mother joined the Vassal family in solidarity to protest in front of City Hall on Friday.

And in eerily similar cases last March when Stephon Clark was gunned down in his grandmother’s backyard in a fusillade of bullets and also handcuffed as he bled out on the grass and Danny Ray Thomas, a mentally disturbed man who was shot to death by a cop after he approached him with his pants down to his ankles.

It’s like there’s a proclivity to shoot immediately under the slightest perceived or arbitrary threat. It might not only be from lack of training to handle situations with mentally disturbed people but from a pragmatic policy. Because video footage from 12 years ago surfaced last week of a sheriff who’s running for re-election was asking and answering a rhetorical question on a hot mic to reporter on how it’s more frugal for government finances to kill a suspect than it is to wound them.

“When a deputy shoots somebody, which way is better financially? To cripple them or kill them for the county?”

“Kill them?” someone off camera asks before Youngblood answers “Absolutely.”

“Because if you cripple them you have to take care of them for life and that cost goes way up,” he said.

Since we don’t know anything currently about the cops who shot down Vassel on a street corner in cold blood, something like this theory this asshole sheriff blathered out loud 12 years ago could be kind of an open secret or unofficial policy to enact swift lethal justice on people deemed to be expendable.

But for now we all have to wait till the investigation is final to know the intentions and names of the four cops and even for the entire footage that the NYPD has released in scant selective drips. This media whitewashing of the killing just might be under the influence and gamesmanship of recently appointed NYPD spokesman Phil Walszak, whose previous duties were to make de Blasio look good and act as an editor-in-chief to the press by demanding of them to only ask questions only about the topic the Mayor was discussing or interested in. His presence and the city’s (current) exploitation of the 50-a civil rights law protecting criminally incompetent and corrupt cops from the public’s demands of prior offenses while on and off the job.

Despite all the care being utilized to mollify the public of these situations, which is being met with hardened cynicism considering recent history and the fact that the handling of this shooting is straining credibility, compounded by the fact that Mayor de Blasio has no credibility at all, this is truly only the beginning. For now it appears that the integration of beat and militarized cops is now being implemented with regular crime-fighting, (d)evolving from the initial use of them for the free assemblage of protesters and exhibitions of defense from unconfirmed terrorist threats.

Which will inevitably lead to more unfortunate events like the street killing of Saheed Vassell and who knows what else since every citizen is being kept in the dark just so the Mayor and his NYPD can look competent and caring. Which will lead to more anger and confusion among the constituency, more protests that will lead to clashes between the people and the heavily armored cops and more expensive lawsuits and settlements against the NYPD, all of which definitely will not result in a-

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Update

A video made by a citizen Jose Lasalle of the community activist group CopWatch was released by news magazine The Indypendent of the scene possibly minutes after the shooting of Saheed Vassell by four police officers:

The video shows a police vehicle blocking the intersection and two cars in the middle of it, a woman confronting the cops who are motioning for her to back away but she still is able to get at a cop’s face. Cops surrounding the body and the two plainclothes cops standing on the corner where Vassell is lying dead on the sidewalk.

One of the plainclothes cop’s is wearing a T-shirt of The Punisher logo. The Punisher is a superhero comic book character who metes out justice by shooting and killing his foes and criminals on sight.

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The Patch website for Crown Heights has the entire texts of the 911 calls.

The city has still not released the audio of the 911 calls nor the names of the cops.