Bushwick Resident Beaten to Death
I’m surprised that this incident, which occurred on Sunday, hasn’t been covered on this blog yet– considering there is a category for “crime.” The Bushwick resident whose head was beaten in with a baseball bat, in a completely random attack, has just died. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/nyregion/10assault.html?em http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/nyregion/09assault.html?ref=nyregion
I’m surprised that this incident, which occurred on Sunday, hasn’t been covered on this blog yet– considering there is a category for “crime.”
The Bushwick resident whose head was beaten in with a baseball bat, in a completely random attack, has just died.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/nyregion/10assault.html?em
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/nyregion/09assault.html?ref=nyregion
Revised plan: Vigil is now at 2 pm Sunday in the daylight. Details:
Change of plans! Make the Road is planning a vigil so they have been combined:
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR A BUSHWICK HATE CRIME
Sunday, December 14th
REVISED PLAN:
We will all be joining the vigil organized by Make the Road NY. We will be gathering at 2pm near their offices, at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Grove Street. We will then walk to the site of the attack (Bushwick Avenue and Kossuth Place) for a vigil at 4pm. The previously planned walk at 7pm starting in front of the Archive will no longer be happening – we hope you will join with us at the march and vigil organized by Make the Road. Thanks!
Fortunately this has been covered rather extensively – there was a segment on WNYC this morning.
It’s a terrible tragedy. I was waiting for Mr. Brownstoner to post about this, but don’t blame him for not. He’s got a lot on his plate, and tends to focus on the wealthier brownstone enclaves. I didn’t post it because the new rule is we can only post about home repairs.
A vigil is planned for Sunday at 7 pm. I will be there.
Details:
Meet in front of The Archive café at 49 Bogart Street (at Seigel and Bogart) at 7pm.
We will walk to the scene of the crime at Bushwick Ave. and Kossuth Place and have a few moments of silence at 8pm.
Please bring extra candles. And, spread the word!
dibs, police are trained to shoot to the chest. The purpose of shooting a suspect is not to kill him, but to force him to immediately cease and desist. Of course sometimes that will result in his death, but police are only supposed to use lethal force to save a life or in other limited circumstances. That’s why Tasers are being issued.
To ask a cop under a great deal of stress to choose what body parts to shoot at is asking a bit much. They’re often not very good shots to being with, as past incidents have shown.
I’m not a police apologist and am not saying this shooting was or was not justified. It should be noted that ‘all he had was a baseball bat’ is weird in the context of this thread, which was about a man being killed with a baseball bat!
Cobblehiller…that pic of Officer Kern looks like it may have come from casting central for “Deliverance.” Ironic.
Correction, hannible: There’s never been any problem with talking about crime or other bad stuff in Bushwick on this site. The gorier/uglier the better. It’s across Broadway that the brownstone bubble begins.
We don’t talk about crime on this site because it drives the price of rents and real estate down. The less we talk about crime the more our fat landlords can raise their rents.
More on NYC’s finest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081209/ap_on_re_us/police_assault
thanks StuyIvy
What the fuck is it with these cops “shooting to kill” in the chest instead of in the leg or something when all this guy had was a baseball bat?????????? Arguably he was mentally unstable but a shot to the leg would have disabled him. That officer should be severely disciplined or put in the electric chair.