Brooklyn neighborhood on police lockdown following protest Published time: March 12, 2013 02:03 Edited time: March 12, 2013 13:59 Demonstrators chant while protesting the shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray by New York Police, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 11, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
Share on Tumblr Tags Crime, Police, Protest, USA, Violence Police intervened after more than 100 people joined together for a candlelit vigil in the East Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, where 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot multiple times by police on Saturday.
Brooklynites on Twitter reported that police followed the march and searched apartment buildings in the neighborhood without warrants, looking for children who had been seen throwing bottles at police from neighborhood rooftops.
Officers clad in riot gear were seen along the block, and barricades were placed on the streets. March participants chanted, "NYPD / KKK / how many kids will you kill today," witnesses reported.
Police said the crowd fell the 67th Precinct station in East Flatbush, where teenagers who were not apparently a part of any organized group threw garbage and empty bottles at the windows.
"I'm in the middle of the riot action at Church and Snyder in my district. Right now, things are tense," New York City Councilman Jumaane D. Williams, who represents the area, said on Twitter. Williams said people smashed out windows and overturned garbage cans during the disorder, and that one person had been attacked outside of a local Rite Aid.
“Tonight was a peaceful vigil that devolved into a riot,” Williams wrote. “The youth in this community have no outlets for their anger, no community.”
One person is believed to have been arrested, and no injuries were reported.
Sixteen-year-old Kimani Gray was shot and killed on Saturday night after pointing a gun at two plainclothes officers who approached him, police said.
According to the officers involved in the shooting, the teenager adjusted his belt
"suspiciously," and after they exited their vehicle to investigate, he pointed a .357 caliber revolver at them. Both officers fired a total of 11 shots at the suspect, hitting Gray multiple times in his torso and legs.
His sister, Mahnefah Gray, told NY1 she doubted her brother was carrying a gun, but was rather grabbing his belt
“to squeeze it” because he had a
“skinny waist.” Demonstrator Stacy Michelin screams during a march protesting a New York Police Department shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 11, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
"They thought he was grabbing back to get a gun,” she said.
“He's 16 years old. What is he pointing a gun at over six police, knowing that they would kill him? He has common sense." Witnesses said that Gray, who was running for his life when he was shot, did not have a gun.
"Stay down, or we’ll shoot you again,” police said once Gray had been hit, according to the New York Times.
"The cops, they just jumped out of the car so fast," the New York Daily News quoted witness Devonte Brown as saying.
A New York Police Department (NYPD) officer watches a march protesting the NYPD shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 11, 2013. Picture taken March 11, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
"They started shooting him and he went down, he was bleeding, holding his side, screaming, 'stop, stop." But one woman, who identified herself as the slain teen’s cousin, told NY1 that Kimani was in fact holding the gun for a friend. She also believed that Kimani was attempting to alert the police that he had the weapon rather than use it.
After the shooting, Gray was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival. The officers involved in the shooting were also treated for trauma and tinnitus. Police said there is no evidence the unidentified officers acted inappropriately, though they were put on administrative leave.
The also said that Gray had previously been arrested four times on charges of grand larceny, possession of stolen property and inciting a riot.
wonder if these were the same cops that killed a person from my local area in Brooklyn a couple years back. Guy was a black teenager from Easton Mass that was fearing for his life, tried to drive off and police shot him in the head thru the windshield
"I'm in the middle of the riot action at Church and Snyder in my district. Right now, things are tense," New York City Councilman Jumaane D. Williams, who represents the area, said on Twitter. Williams said people smashed out windows and overturned garbage cans during the disorder, and that one person had been attacked outside of a local Rite Aid.
not the trash cans! this is anarchy i tell you! how will they recover? that's easily $10 in damages!
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i know some of you hate police but this kinda seems like the whole neighborhood is in denial that this kid would pull out a gun in front of cops. especially since everyone but his aunt said he didn't have a gun. and his aunt said he was holding it for a friend. and then pulled it out to show police he had a weapon? seriously? who does that? and who would do that without saying anything first to let the cops know he didn't have any intentions of shooting them?
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Published time: March 12, 2013 02:03
Edited time: March 12, 2013 13:59
Demonstrators chant while protesting the shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray by New York Police, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 11, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
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Police intervened after more than 100 people joined together for a candlelit vigil in the East Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, where 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot multiple times by police on Saturday.
Brooklynites on Twitter reported that police followed the march and searched apartment buildings in the neighborhood without warrants, looking for children who had been seen throwing bottles at police from neighborhood rooftops.
Officers clad in riot gear were seen along the block, and barricades were placed on the streets. March participants chanted, "NYPD / KKK / how many kids will you kill today," witnesses reported.
Police said the crowd fell the 67th Precinct station in East Flatbush, where teenagers who were not apparently a part of any organized group threw garbage and empty bottles at the windows.
"I'm in the middle of the riot action at Church and Snyder in my district. Right now, things are tense," New York City Councilman Jumaane D. Williams, who represents the area, said on Twitter. Williams said people smashed out windows and overturned garbage cans during the disorder, and that one person had been attacked outside of a local Rite Aid.
“Tonight was a peaceful vigil that devolved into a riot,” Williams wrote. “The youth in this community have no outlets for their anger, no community.”
One person is believed to have been arrested, and no injuries were reported.
Sixteen-year-old Kimani Gray was shot and killed on Saturday night after pointing a gun at two plainclothes officers who approached him, police said.
According to the officers involved in the shooting, the teenager adjusted his belt
"suspiciously," and after they exited their vehicle to investigate, he pointed a .357 caliber revolver at them. Both officers fired a total of 11 shots at the suspect, hitting Gray multiple times in his torso and legs.
His sister, Mahnefah Gray, told NY1 she doubted her brother was carrying a gun, but was rather grabbing his belt
“to squeeze it” because he had a
“skinny waist.”
Demonstrator Stacy Michelin screams during a march protesting a New York Police Department shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 11, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
"They thought he was grabbing back to get a gun,” she said.
“He's 16 years old. What is he pointing a gun at over six police, knowing that they would kill him? He has common sense." Witnesses said that Gray, who was running for his life when he was shot, did not have a gun.
"Stay down, or we’ll shoot you again,” police said once Gray had been hit, according to the New York Times.
"The cops, they just jumped out of the car so fast," the New York Daily News quoted witness Devonte Brown as saying.
A New York Police Department (NYPD) officer watches a march protesting the NYPD shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 11, 2013. Picture taken March 11, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
"They started shooting him and he went down, he was bleeding, holding his side, screaming, 'stop, stop." But one woman, who identified herself as the slain teen’s cousin, told NY1 that Kimani was in fact holding the gun for a friend. She also believed that Kimani was attempting to alert the police that he had the weapon rather than use it.
After the shooting, Gray was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival. The officers involved in the shooting were also treated for trauma and tinnitus. Police said there is no evidence the unidentified officers acted inappropriately, though they were put on administrative leave.
The also said that Gray had previously been arrested four times on charges of grand larceny, possession of stolen property and inciting a riot.
http://rt.com/usa/brooklyn-riot-police-protesters-127/
> lolok
I know police get away with bullshit like this all the time, but this sounds a little suspicious.