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Cops fi nd tot, stolen with car
Bklyn schools full of toxic lead: DOE
Gonzalez battles Barr
over deportation rule
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By Aidan Graham
Brooklyn Paper
Brooklyn District Attorney
Eric Gonzalez is pushing
back against a new Trump
Administration policy that
would give federal authorities
the ability to deport immigrants
for past convictions
— even after a state judge
has vacated them.
Gonzalez joined 42 other
state and district prosecutors
from across the country
in signing a legal brief
urging U.S. Attorney General
William Barr to refrain
from giving federal immigration
courts the power to use
state convictions to deport
non-citizens, despite subsequent
rulings that vacate
those convictions as a result
of due process violations, or
the discovery of new, or defective
evidence.
As an example, Barr’s new
rule would allow immigration
courts to deport green
card holder Michael Waithe
on his 1987 burglary conviction,
while ignoring the
fact that an investigation by
former Brooklyn DA Kenneth
Thompson’s conviction
review unit exonerated
him after discovering his alleged
crime never actually occurred
, Gonzalez said.
“It would have been absurd
for the federal government
to ignore this post-conviction
finding and deport
the man anyway and would
be equally unjust to ignore
countless other discretionary
decisions regarding old
convictions and sentences
made in state courts,” Gonzalez
said.
And in his enthusiasm
to deport immigrants, Barr
has proven willing to tread
on states’ rights, haphazardly
upholding the sovereignty
of local courts in applying
convictions, while ignoring
their authority to later dismiss
them, according to a legal
justice watchdog.
“Any change to decades
of immigration procedures
and precedent would unduly
limit the discretion of elected
prosecutors and infringe on
state and local rights,” said
Miriam Krinsky, executive
director of Fair and Just Prosecution.
Kings County is home to
nearly 1 million immigrants,
about 300,000 of whom are
non-citizens, according to
a 2018 report by the Mayor’s
Office of Immigrant
Affairs .
Brooklyn District Attorney
Eric Gonzalez.
File photo
By Zach Gewelb
Brooklyn Paper
Cops have found the
1-year-old boy who was in
a car when it was stolen in
Crown Heights Monday, according
to authorities.
“Thank you everyone! We
have located the child and he
has been reunited with his
mother and father,” read a
tweet posted by NYPD Patrol
Borough Brooklyn North.
The car, a white Mitsubishi
with a New York license plate
(HYB 6531), was stolen around
This 1-year-old child was
in a car when it was stolen
in Crown Heights.
Twitter/@NYPDBklynNorth
7:15 p.m. at Dean Street and
Kingston Avenue, according
to a police spokesman.
NYPD Assistant Chief Jeffrey
Maddrey, speaking at a
press conference after the boy
had been found, said an unknown
male walked up to the
vehicle — which had been
idling after the boy’s mother
went into a store to buy groceries
— entered the vehicle
and pulled off.
“The mother immediately
came out of the store and realized
her vehicle was missing,
called 911 and units from
the 77th Precinct responded
to the location and began to
conduct an investigat ion,”
Maddrey said.
The commanding officer
of the precinct immediately
called a level one mobilization
requesting a strategic response
group and members
of the detective bureau, according
to Maddrey.
As the search progressed,
Maddrey said more units —
ranging from K9 units to the
counterterrorism unit — were
called to aid in the investigation
and the New York State Police
issued an amber alert.
Two hours into the search at
approximately 9 p.m., officers
discovered the vehicle parked
and running 11 blocks from
where it was stolen at Park
Place and Ralph Avenue.
Maddrey said some neighbors
had identified the car and
flagged down an officer, who
recovered the baby.
The boy appears to be unharmed,
Maddrey said, but
EMS was looking at him at
the scene and was going to
transport him to the hospital
as a precaution.
By Aidan Graham
Brooklyn Paper
More than 360 classrooms
in Brooklyn public schools
are contaminated by toxic
lead particles, the Department
of Education announced
last week.
A recent study found that
938 classrooms in 302 elementary
schools citywide
tested positive for chipped or
peeling lead paint, including
361 classrooms in 114 Brooklyn
schools, according to education
officials.
Kings County primary
schools dominated the city’s
list of contaminated classrooms,
with facilities such
as the P.S. 1 Bergen Elementary
School in Sunset Park,
P.S. 5 Dr. Ronald McNair Elementary
School in Stuyvesant
Heights, and the P.S. 9
Teunis G. Berg Elementary
School in Prospect Heights
— home to a whopping nine
lead-tainted classrooms —
included among the affected
buildings.
The city’s published lead
findings do not include the
severity of contamination,
but the heavy metal is considered
toxic at virtually any
level, and children exposed
to lead are at risk of brain
and nervous system damage,
diminished growth, slowed
development, and learning
disabilities, according
to the Center for Disease
Control .
Congress outlawed the
sale of lead-based paints in
the 1960s, but paints sold before
then remained in use
throughout city schools until
1985, and chipped or peel-
Environmental Protection
Agency .
A spokeswoman for the
Department of Education
pledged swift action to clean
up the dangerous city classrooms
before classes resume
in September.
“All work will be complete
by the first day of school, and
we’re going to remain vigilant
throughout the year and regularly
inspect, test, and immediately
address any concern
in our buildings,” said
Miranda Barbot.
The Department of Education
also committed to providing
training to school custodians
to inspect and address
lead-paint contamination, as
well as to create a centralized
database to inform the public
about the status of each
city classroom, according to
the Department.
These are the first lead test
results of city schools that the
city has made publicly available,
and the disclosure follows
a scathing WNYC investigative
report that found
toxic lead levels contaminating
dozens of schools built
before 1960.
A spokeswoman with the
Department of Education did
not immediately respond to a
request for comment regarding
whether the city would
contact the thousands of students
who may have been exposed
to lead in tainted classrooms
in previous years.
CLASS
ACTION
Schools in crisis!
ing walls can release toxic
lead particles that are considered
immediately hazardous,
according to the federal
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