A vigil over a fatal police shooting of a teenager that turned violent has led to an anger exchange between a Brooklyn councilman and the police commissioner.
Councilman Jumaane Williams criticized Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a council hearing Tuesday for characterizing the community’s anger as a mere “disturbance.”
Kelly retorted he noticed Williams “didn’t’ mention anything about a 16-year-old with a gun that brought about this incident.”
Williams said the shooting and protest were not isolated incidents of how the NYPD reacts to minority neighborhoods. He said “It is about years of not being heard.”
Kelly said he attends community meetings all the time.
Dozens of people threw bottles and damaged stores while protesting Monday.
Meanwhile, the two New York City police officers who fatally shot the teenage boy who they said pointed a gun at them have been placed on administrative duty.
Police say Kimani Gray was with a group of other males in Brooklyn Saturday night. Police say 16-year-old left when he saw police in an unmarked car. Authorities say the boy was acting suspiciously. The officers identified themselves as they approached him.
According to police, the boy then pointed a .38-caliber revolver at the officers who responded by firing 11 shots, striking him several times. Gray was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.
Police say Gray’s revolver was loaded with four live rounds.
(AP)
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One second, is this the same Jumaane Williams who was an ally of David Greenfield? And he is being criticized on this website? Someone must have hacked YWN. Please take this down immediately….wait, what? Wow. David Greenfield just blew his nose…for the better of his community obviously…he is amazing.
Greenfield for President! I heard he got us garbage pickup on Erev Pesach!!
Jumaane has been verty sensative to our needs and under redistricting he will have more frum in his new district. He’s wrong to find any excuse for lawlessness!
Please note that we’ve had special sanitationm pickups erev Pesach since Greenfield was in elementary school thanks to Community Boards 12 and 14.