Gang Grafitti!?! - This is what we need now?

caseopele wrote: Actually it says:

Welcome to Athens Miller
Bloods

With a C with an X through it or something and something else I can't remember but it said West. There was similar graffiti under the train overpass on Bergen that said something about West Side Neighborhood in red with another symbol next to it. I see the guys mostly in the summer dressed in red hanging out on Franklin. It's interesting to see some of them who you wouldn't think were Bloods if it weren't for their colors hanging out of their back right pockets.

Hamilton wrote: [quote=caseopele]Welcome to Arthur Miller would mean something totally different, that lucky bastard was married to Marilyn Monroe!

The police official, Deputy Chief John P. Lowe, said the police had decided against using tear gas or Chemical Mace to disable the woman, because ''the theory was that she was elderly and we would be able to handle her without too much trouble.''

Six members of the Emergency Service Unit had been called to the apartment by Housing Authority representatives who said the woman had a knife and was resisting eviction for failing to pay the monthly rent of $89.45 for four months.

Chief Lowe said an officer fired two shotgun blasts at the woman, Eleanor Bumpurs, after she had lunged with a 10-inch carving knife at two other officers. According to Chief Lowe, at least one officer in an Emergency Service squad has a shotgun when trying to subdue a person believed to be carrying a weapon. Asked in an interview why the officer had not fired a warning shot, Chief Lowe said:

''Our officers are not allowed to fire warning shots. They are trained to hit the target, not a leg or an arm, but the main part of the body.

Miss Bumpurs said she and other relatives had advised Mrs. Bumpurs, who lived alone, not to allow strangers into her apartment. ''We had told her, 'Mom, don't open the door for nobody,' '' Miss Bumpurs said.

George Kramer, manager of the Sedgwick Houses, where Mrs. Bumpurs lived, said Miss Bumpurs and other family members had been told of the eviction. However, Miss Bumpurs disputed his statement. She said if the family had known about the problem, it would have paid the back rent.

In other testimony yesterday in the trial before Justice Fred W. Eggert in State Supreme Court in the Bronx, a former employee of the Housing Authority said that, three weeks before Mrs. Bumpurs's death in 1984, her relatives tried to make a payment of about $180, half of the rent she owed.

But the former Authority employee, Joan Alfredson, said that she rejected the payment. Mrs. Alfredson, who was a bookkeeper, said she turned down the payment because she was forbidden to accept partial payment without the written consent of a supervisor.

Mr. Ruiz, testifying for the prosecution, said that, on the day of the eviction, Oct. 29, 1984, he was in the vestibule outside Mrs. Bumpurs's apartment at 1551 University Avenue in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. She lived alone in the $98.65-a-month apartment in the Sedgwick Houses.

Under cross-examination by Mr. Sullivan's lawyer, Bruce A. Smirty, Mr. Ruiz said that his agency was aware of reports from the authority that Mrs. Bumpurs was unable to manage her affairs. Asked why he had never requested emergency psychiatric help for her, Mr. Ruiz said that he had followed directions from his supervisors in handling her case.

One of the employees faulted by officials for their actions was said by a source familiar with the case to be a psychiatrist who spent an hour with Mrs. Bumpurs four days before she was killed. The source said that, despite the fact that Mrs. Bumpurs held a knife during the interview, the psychiatrist approved the planned eviction without recommending that mental health personnel be on hand to calm Mrs. Bumpurs.

The source said the psychiatrist also did not inform welfare officials of the potential resistance of Mrs. Bumpurs.

A psychiatrist who examined Eleanor Bumpurs four days before she was shot to death by the police in an eviction dispute said yesterday that state law had prevented him from having her committed to a psychiatric hospital.

The psychiatrist, Dr. Robert John, whose consulting contract with the city was terminated after the killing, defended his assessment of Mrs. Bumpurs's condition.

In terminating Dr. John's contract, the Human Resources Administrator, Dr. George Gross, said that Dr. John should have recommended an emergency examination and possible hospitalization of Mrs. Bumpurs.

But yesterday, Dr. John said that the law prevented him from ordering emergency hospitalization because, in his professional judgment, Mrs. Bumpurs was not a threat to herself or others.

The police yesterday demonstrated several nonlethal devices, including a robot that sprays Chemical Mace, to be used in restraining emotionally disturbed people.

The use of the devices by the Emergency Service Unit is part of a revised procedure for dealing with the emotionally disturbed. The procedures were revised after a 66-year-old woman, Eleanor Bumpurs, was fatally shot by one of a group of police officers who were trying to evict her from her apartment in a Bronx housing project.

Six of the restraining devices have been used by the department's hostage negotiating team. They are the robot, but without Mace; a shepherd's crook to grab a person's legs; a mechanical claw with a long handle that acts as a handcuff; a net; a projectile thrower that sprays talcum powder mixed with Mace, and a fire extinguisher that releases 100 pounds of water pressure.

A number of other devices will also be available to the unit. They are a device that emits a loud noise, a 10-foot- long Mace sprayer, a volt-thrower, a series of bright lights mounted on a bulletproof glass shield to distract a person and a blanket with bulletproof material.

Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward said that had any of these devices been used by the police in dealing with Mrs. Bumpurs, physical restraint might not have been necessary.

caseopele wrote: So no one knows what the heck Welcome to Athens Miller means?

A 67-year-old Bronx woman being evicted from a city housing project for nonpayment of rent was fatally shot by a police officer yesterday after she slashed at another officer with a butcher knife, the police said.

Authorities said the woman, Eleanor Bumpurs, who was described as ''violent and uncontrollable,'' was shot in the chest when an officer assigned to the police Emergency Service Unit fired his shotgun.

Mrs. Bumpurs, 66 years old, was shot to death four weeks ago by a New York City police officer, part of a police team attempting to restrain her while housing officials evicted her from an apartment in a Bronx housing project.

Last October a white officer shot and killed Eleanor Bumpurs, 66, an emotionally disturbed black woman who allegedly lunged at a second officer with a ten-inch knife while police were evicting her from her apartment.

mr. met wrote: do people think this graffiti is for real? i mean, is there a bloods/crips presence in the neighborhood?

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Now, we have cops who had not been properly trained to deal with a mentally ill person. Not allowed to fire a warning shot and trained to only hit the main part of the body?