March 15, 2020 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
Month xx–xx, 2019
LOCAL
CLASSIFIEDS
PAG E 19
FED UP: Yeiny Sanz, the sister of Maria de los Angeles Pimental, speaks at a rally against an ICE arrest caught on camera. Photo by Todd Maisel OUTRAGED
LOCALS SLAM FEDS FOR VIOLENT ICE ARREST IN FLATBUSH
BY BEN VERDE
Advocates and elected offi -
cials are calling for the federal
government to release an immigrant
who was violently arrested
by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement offi cers at
her place of work on Flatbush
Avenue on March 1.
In a video captured by her coworker,
ICE agents can be seen
throwing Maria de los Angeles
Pimental to the ground and
handcuffi ng her after entering
the restaurant she works in
without a warrant and pepperspraying
her — a move community
leaders compared to the
“Gestapo” tactics of Nazi Germany.
“This is not about ‘bad hombres’
this is about Nazism, this
is about white supremacy,”
said Public Advocate Juumane
Williams at a rally outside La
Cabaña on Flatbush Avenue,
where Pimental works and was
arrested. “I don’t want to mince
words on the Gestapo police
who are walking around on our
streets kidnapping our neighbors.”
Community leaders further
blasted the agency for entering
the restaurant without a judicial
warrant and not explaining
what was happening to Pimental
in Spanish before she was
arrested.
Family members of Pimental,
a mother of three from the
Dominican Republic who arrived
in America last March,
say they are devastated by their
situation.
“I wouldn’t wish this on anyone
else,” said her sister Yeiny
FARE-Y
NICE
NEW BILL TO
OFFER DISCOUNT
ON VZ TOLLS
BY ROSE ADAMS
A southern Brooklyn lawmaker
wants to give commuters
a discount on the bridge
with the country’s most expensive
toll.
The Tax Relief for Bridge
Tolls Act, introduced on
March 5 by Congressman Max
Rose, would provide a credit
to commuters who spend over
$1,000 on the Verrazzano-Narrows
Bridge annually. The
legislation would save Staten
Islanders about $215 and
Brooklynites $1,091 each year,
Rose announced at a press
conference on Saturday.
“This bill will put hundreds,
if not thousands of
dollars back in the bank accounts
of Staten Islanders and
Brooklynites,” said Rose, a
Democrat whose district encompasses
Staten Island and
a swath of southern Brooklyn.
“If you want to see the money
you’re spending on tolls go
down, not up, then this bill
is for you — and I am going
to be doing everything I can
to build support across the
United States so that this bill
can become law.”
The legislation would allow
drivers to collect a 50
percent credit on all money
spent on tolls over $1,000, and
would apply to commuters
who travel on bridges with a
peak toll free of $11 or higher,
including New Jersey’s Out-
Continued on page 7 Continued on page 7
Vol. 9 No. 11 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNPAPER.COM
/BROOKLYNPAPER.COM