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Brownsville mourns slain cyclist
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Eric Gonzalez’s office.
Dozens more cops swarmed
in and slammed Hawkins to
the ground, as seen in a video
of the scene that this paper
published last week.
Several witnesses offered
accounts that contradicted law
enforcement, claiming Reddington
lunged at Kamel from
behind, and that at no point
did the teen attempt to hurl
the police officer, who merely
fell as the young man ducked
out of the way.
“The kid is walking inside
the park, the officer — it was
a white officer — he comes
behind him and he went to
DOG...
nessed a slim, six-foot-tall
man with curly blonde hair
running with the canine toward
the park’s exit at Grand
Army Plaza.
After filing a police report,
Marveal and Gray took matters
into their own hands and
scoured the Slope in a two-day
search for the stolen canine.
“We spent hours looking
around there, and we were
about to give up for the night
when Jess spotted him out
of the corner of her eye,” said
Marveal.
The dognapped chihuahua
was walking with two strangers
on Sunday evening near
Fifth Avenue and Douglass
Street, according to Marveal,
who snapped into action
at the sight of the missing
canine.
“A young woman was walking
him on a leash. I jumped
out of the car, crept up behind
her, and grabbed the leash out
of her hand,” she said. “I asked
her where she got the dog, and
she said she’d found him. She
looked like she was in shock,
but they were being very confrontational.”
After a brief skirmish, the
rescuers scooped their fourlegged
pet and hopped back in
their car, but the second captor
— who did not match the
original thief’s description
— followed in pursuit, said
Marveal.
“A man started chasing us,
and he tried to bash our window
with his skateboard, and
he tried to get inside the car,”
she said.
Marveal and Gray managed
a successful getaway,
leaving Fidel’s captor’s in the
dust as they booked it straight
for the 78th Precinct’s Sixth
Avenue station house.
The pooch’s liberators suspect
his theft was part of an
elaborate shake-down scheme,
according to Marveal.
“We had a lawyer reach out
to us, and they said it might
be part of a kidnaping ring —
where one person steals the
dog, and another person returns
it for the reward,” she
said. “We think they might
have been holding out for a
higher reward.”
Nevertheless, the pup
is now safe in his Crown
Heights home, where Marveal
and Gray will be taking
extra precautions in the
future.
“He’s never going to be
let off the leash again,” said
Marveal.
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snatch him from behind,” said
Sandra Rodriguez. “The kid
didn’t know what was going
on so he jumped forward and
the officer fell back and all
of them attacked the kid and
they pulled his hair — it was
like 10 of them. It was terrible,
I was like ‘Please, stop
hitting him.’”
Another witness related
a similar account and said
that the other officers overreacted
because they misread
the situation.
“I think the white male cop
tried to jump on his back and
he just felt — the kid — it
was a reaction,” said Joachim
Carels. “He didn’t know who
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thought the cop got bodyslammed
or something and
they went crazy on him.”
Turner said that police
failed to give the teen any
warning, and that officers
were too quick to resort to
violence.
A spokeswoman for police
told this paper that the video of
the incident did not show the
assault and declined to comment
further on the conflicting
narratives between the department
and witnesses.
“The assault you are referring
to is not pictured
in the video,” Sgt. Jessica
McRorie said in an emailed
statement.
A spokeswoman for Gonzalez’s
office said the investigation
into the case is ongoing
and thanked this paper
for providing the reports and
videos, while not responding
directly to detailed questions
regarding the conflicts in the
narratives.
“This is an ongoing investigation.
We are examining
all of the available evidence
and appreciate your coming
forward with this information
and video as a potential
witness in the case,” Helen
Peterson said in an emailed
statement.
Police charged Hawkins
with felony assault for the
alleged attack on Reddington,
as well as resisting arrest,
disorderly conduct, and
obstructing governmental
administration.
He is currently out on
supervised release and is
scheduled to appear in court
on Sept. 12, according to
Peterson.
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
Mourners gathered in
Brownsville Monday to honor
the memory of a local cyclist,
who a teenage driver struck
and killed last week.
Safe streets advocates and
local politicians joined the family
of 57-year-old Ernest Askew
to mourn his untimely passing,
and demand action from law
enforcement in the face of rising
cyclist fatalities.
“At this point if you don’t
leave the accident you get off
scot free and that’s not right,”
said Peter Storey, president of
the recreational cycling group
New York Cycle Club.
Storey used the occasion
to promote better biking infrastructure
in Brownsville,
echoing Borough President
Eric Adam’s claim that the
neighborhood and its cyclists
suffer from the city’s
neglect.
“Borough President Adams
was correct in saying
that Brownsville has too
often been forgotten — on
many issues — and we need
do something about that,” he
said. “The vigil was very moving
and let’s hope that something
comes out of it.”
Askew was pedaling
east along Sutter Avenue on
June 27, when an 18-year-old
driver struck the biker as he
attempted to cross Chester
Street, cops said.
Paramedics rushed both
men to Brookdale Hospital,
where the biker was pronounced
dead and the driver
was treated for a hand injury,
cops said.
Police have not arrested or
summonsed the driver and the
investigation remains ongo-
Now on FROM THE PAGES OF
BROWNSTONER.COM
Stephen Zacks
Brownstoner
The late Greek Revival
brick row house at 160 Hoyt
St. in Boerum Hill has come
down in price since it last appeared
on the market in 2015,
but it’s looking prettier than before
with its updated furnishings.
The house has impressive
foliate crown moldings in
the parlors and original marble
mantels, and the white paint
and pared-down bookshelves
give it an airy feel.
The four stories are configured
as a triplex over a garden
floor rental. The front parlor
has impressively high
ceilings, an ornate medallion
that matches the crown
moldings, recent built-ins, a
typical Italianate marble mantel
and pocket doors.
The latter lead to the rear
parlor, which is similarly
decked out. It’s used as a dining
room, with the kitchen
running along the side. Two
sets of French doors lead to
an attractive wood deck with
steps down to a grassy, ivywalled
garden.
The kitchen has an island
with swirly granite counters
and upper IKEA-style cabinets
that give it a galley orientation
while maintaining a
greater openness.
Upstairs on the bedroom
floors are more built-ins and
typical Greek Revival period
marble mantels. The master
bedroom suite spans the third
floor and includes a large rear
bedroom with an en suite bathroom,
guest bedroom or office
in the front, walk-in closet and
laundry room.
The en suite bathroom has
been updated with green and
white tile with a checkerboard
patterned border and a marble
counter on a modern van-
The Corcoran Group
ity. The top floor has three
more bedrooms and another
full bathroom. (The house has
three bathrooms in total.)
The garden floor rental is
not pictured, but the floor plan
shows a nicely laid out onebedroom
apartment with two
mantels, a semi-open kitchen,
and four closets.
160 Hoyt St. is in the
Boerum Hill Historic District,
part of a row of four built in
1852 by Brooklyn carpenter
James Miller. Its Greek Revival
facade has its original
recessed door surround with
pilasters and narrow lights on
each side, and dentil molding
under a transom. Later Neo-
Grec alterations include the
brownstone door and window
hoods. It has a bracketed
cornice and arched Italianate
iron railings.
The building has been in
the hands of the same family
for at least 18 years. It’s
on the market now for $3.495
million, with Jason Crew and
Sephrah Towbin of Corcoran
handling the listing. Is it a
good deal?
Cyclists raised their bikes in a somber moment of silence at the vigil.
Photo by Steve Solomonson
ing, according to a police
spokesman.
Dozens of cyclists held up
their bikes in the air during a
moment of silence at the vigil
and activists with Ghost Bikes
hung a sign at the intersection,
which read, “Cyclist killed
here, rest in peace.”
Askew is one of 15 city cyclists
to die in 2019, compared
to 10 during all of last year,
and one of three within a span
of seven days.
On the same day as his
vigil, Bushwick woman Devra
Freelander was killed when a
cement truck struck her at a
Williamsburg intersection.
Photo by Steve Solomonson
Joyce Cannady mourned the death of her nephew
at a vigil held at the fatal junction.
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