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about the shooting in Fort Greene? I are stunned.
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you got more info? I hadn't heard about itSpend a buck, light a number for one the 400,000 victims in Darfur: darfurwall.org
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Subject: Re: How come no one posted
thalia » about de shooting in Fort Greene? I are stunned.
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Because the only first hand knowledge I had of it was listening to the helicopters hovering a few blocks away. Then I saw it on the news. Boygabriel---This was the shooting at Walt Whitman houses a few nights ago. A cop apparently saw a guy with a gun standing over a kneeling man about to execute him. A gun fight ensued, resulting in the cop getting shot in the leg and the gunman being killed.
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Brooklyn - WABC, October 27, 2006) - A police sergeant is in stable condition this morning. he was wounded in a shootout, shortly after going off-duty in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. This morning sargeant James Rector is lucky to be alive. The shooting happened near Auburn Place in the Fort Greene section. The officer and two other people were hit during the gunfire. This was a wild shootout in which one man is dead and two others, including 34-year-old police sergeant James Rector, were injured and police are looking for a fourth man -- maybe even a teenager -- who may still have the gun the police officer was shot with. This involves a real hero cop -- a sergeant who had just gotten off work and was walking down the street and officials say he came upon a man pointing a gun at another man who was on his knees. Mayor Michael Bloomberg: "He just left the office when he came up on one man who was standing over another shooting at him with a .40 caliber pistol. The sergeant identified himself as a police officer and told the assailant to drop the gun who instead turned to him and started shooting." New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly: "The sergeant returned fire shooting 11 rounds ... striking the gunman several times. Both the sergeant and the gunman fell to the sidewalk. As a crowd gathered, Sergeant Rector observed a second man with a gun fleeing from the scene. We're now looking for that individual who fled in a black car with dark tinted windows." Police rushed to the Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Green on Thursday night in the police shootout with at least two people, both of whom police say were carrying guns and both were hit. Eric Pitt says his son, Eric Hynes, was one of those shot and the only one killed. Eric Pitt, victim's father: "My baby's gone ... I can't talk right now." "I was like a back and forth thing ... consecutive shots back," an eyewitness said. There were a lot of guns shots and casings covering the street as police roped off a massive crime scene. Many people heard the gunfire but few were surprised by it in a neighborhood that has so many guns, so many shootings. Letitia James, NYC Councilwoman: "Yes. We have a problem with guns in this community and I have repeatedly written letters to the administration as well as to the police commissioner to talk about the level of violence that's unfortunately occurring in public housing." Police believe that during the shootout, the gunman handed his gun off to a young teenager who then disappeared into the housing project. Police are looking for him. That sergeant was taken to Bellevue Hospital and that's where Eyewitness News reporter Nina Pineda is with the story. Officials tell us that Sergeant Rector, an 11-year veteran of the NYPD, is in stable condition here and his two children at the hospital by his side. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4701303&ft=print
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Subject: Re: How come no one posted
Anonymous » [quote="thalia"]about de shooting in Fort Greene? I are stunned.
How come YOU didn't?[/quote] mama told me not to talk to strangers..so I can't answer you
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damn. that would explain the stream of police cars racing down myrtle all night in the direction of the whitman houses.Spend a buck, light a number for one the 400,000 victims in Darfur: darfurwall.org
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So that's what the noise was about. I heard nonstop helicopter propellers for hours the other night.
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i did post about it, but included a link from my blog and i think the ombudsman took offense and removed it. oh well
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This is really upsetting. But I'm not going to pretend to know what it's like in those projects or what improvements can be made.Spend a buck, light a number for one the 400,000 victims in Darfur: darfurwall.org
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I'm a little confused about the facts. Did the guy who was initially holding the gun and was apparently about to execute someone get shot and killed, or was it a bystander? And what happened to the guy who was about to get killed? You'd think he'd be helpful in establishing the "bad guys'" identities.
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the original guy about to execute someone is the one who was killed. Don't know what happened to the executee(?), but no-one else was killed.
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The guy originally kneeling was shot, (if I remember the news reports correctly) prior to the policeman's appearance. He is the second gunshot victim the story talks about.
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An off-duty NYPD sergeant trying to stop a cold-blooded execution on a Brooklyn street last night shot a 17-year-old gunman dead after the teen fired two slugs into him, police said. Bleeding from the bullet wounds, Sgt. James Rector fired 11 rounds and mortally wounded Eric Hines as the teen was still trying to pull the trigger of his handgun, police and witnesses said. Rector, a 34-year-old father of two, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in stable condition with bullet wounds in the left ankle and buttocks. Mayor Bloomberg hailed Rector as a hero, saying, "Despite already being hit, he displayed incredible clarity of mind and coolness literally under fire that few of us could hope to muster." The wild shootout occurred about 7:30 p.m. at the Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, where Rector, a decorated 11-year veteran of the force, supervises a recruitment center. Investigators said Rector had just finished his tour and was headed home when he heard shouting and gunfire coming from outside 14 Auburn Place. "I saw people running, then I heard them yelling, 'They shooting! They shooting!' " said witness Charles Davis, 16. Rector ran toward the violence and found an unidentified 26-year-old man on his knees begging for his life, police said. Hines was holding his .40-caliber gun at the man's head, apparently ready to fire, police said. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Rector identified himself as a cop and told Hines to freeze - only to have the teen wheel around, shoot and hit him twice. The first bullet hit Rector's ankle and spun him around. The second hit him in the buttocks. But Rector somehow steadied himself and nearly emptied his 9-mm. handgun, hitting Hines in the chest and leg. Amid the chaos, a young boy grabbed Hines' gun and ran with it into 14 Auburn Place, police said. When heavily armed cops entered the building, an ammo clip and packets of crack cocaine were tossed from a window, police said. Cops later led four men and a woman out of the building in handcuffs. Investigators said they also found cocaine and marijuana in Hines' pockets. The 26-year-old man who had been held at gunpoint by Hines was taken to Lutheran Medical Center, where he was in stable condition with a leg wound. Detectives were questioning him and hunting for another unidentified man who ran to a car during the shootout and sped off. The car was found abandoned in Queens last night. Hines' father, Eric Pitt, 38, a construction worker, said his son had just left his grandmother's apartment in the housing project "when some guys jumped out of a black car and started arguing with him. That's when the bullets started to fly." "They killed my little man, my baby," Pitt said. "I don't even know who shot him. Nobody will tell me anything." But a neighborhood resident said he believes the shooting was drug-related. "One guy was from Walt Whitman, and the other was from the Ingersoll Houses" across the street, the resident said. "One carries a gun, the other carries a gun, both of them have a beef and this is what happens." Rector was in good spirits and recovering late last night. Kelly called the sergeant "a very lucky young man." "Despite being struck with a very powerful weapon, he has survived a close-quarters gunfight and saved the life of the man now recovering in Lutheran Medical Center," Kelly said. A smiling Rector told Kelly, "I would shake your hand, Commissioner, but they have needles in my arm."
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i hate to make such a comment as the one i am about to make, but will make it for the sake of blog discourse: are the locals or anti-gentrifiers (which can be mutually exclusive) happy that this occurred, as it will stave off the effects of gentrification just a bit longer?
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won't stave off anything. FG is pretty much gentrified. The projects, where the shooting took place, will never be gentrified.
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I was watching a public access show about Atlantic Yards and the host made a statement along the lines of "If you don't have a job or a car, traffic problems the project would create probably don't mean a lot to you, but to some people in Brooklyn, they do." People in the Walt Whitman and Ingersoll, I imagine, are much more worried about the rampant drug violence in their community than whitey's lattes. It's an immediate, significant, concern. "Locals" (not 100% sure of your meaning there) outside the footprint, I would hope, would agree. These opinions coming from a 5-year resident of the neighborhood, which I guess puts me outside that category, fyi.
ltjbukem » i hate to make such a comment as the one i am about to make, but will make it for the sake of blog discourse: are the locals or anti-gentrifiers (which can be mutually exclusive) happy that this occurred, as it will stave off the effects of gentrification just a bit longer?
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ltjbukem » i hate to make such a comment as the one i am about to make, but will make it for the sake of blog discourse: are the locals or anti-gentrifiers (which can be mutually exclusive) happy that this occurred, as it will stave off the effects of gentrification just a bit longer?
This assumes that people will either say "I'm not moving there, its where that cop got shot" or "Ohmigod, a cop just got shot here. That's it, we're moving". I don't think either one of those things will happen. A more realistic response is probably "They shot some people in the projects. We really need to do something about getting those folks out of there." -
homeowner » [quote="ltjbukem"]i hate to make such a comment as the one i am about to make, but will make it for the sake of blog discourse: are the locals or anti-gentrifiers (which can be mutually exclusive) happy that this occurred, as it will stave off the effects of gentrification just a bit longer?
This assumes that people will either say "I'm not moving there, its where that cop got shot" or "Ohmigod, a cop just got shot here. That's it, we're moving". I don't think either one of those things will happen. A more realistic response is probably "They shot some people in the projects. We really need to do something about getting those folks out of there."[/quote] Homeowner...ur completely on point...speaking for myself that is
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