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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, JULY 7, 2019
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space to host workshops,
where Brooklyn kids can
learn the art of comic-making
themselves.
“We’re going to offer
classes where you can
learn technical skills, but
also collaborate with others
to make comic books,”
he said. “I think it would be
great is they end up making
comics together. If one
girl does the writing, and a
boy does the drawing, and
another girl does the coloring.
It’s collaborative, and
I think that would be a really
good experience for
these kids.”
In addition to the store’s
innovative payment plan,
it will offer store credit
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called “loot” to heavy-reading
kids and young comics
creators, which they can
apply towards the cost of
the monthly rentals.
In an effort to keep the
shop kid-friendly, adults
must be accompanied by
children, or else make a
reservation in advance.
“That’s playground
rules,” said Einhorn. “This
is about making a safe
space for children, so we
don’t want to have adults
coming in by themselves
whenever. It’s similar to a
playground, where there
are no adults without children
allowed.”
Loot (463 Court St. between
Fourth Place and
Luquer Street in Carroll
Gardens, www.instagram.
com/loot). Open daily; 10
a.m.–6 p.m.
claims her son was at the
Marine Park basketball
courts near Fillmore Avenue
on May 27, when a
teenager approached the
boy asking to perform
some tricks on his Fe-
Cycles trick bike, only to
then pedal away the moment
he was seated.
Sarah’s husband
claimed that a friend of
his spotted the stolen bike
tied at distant Paerdegat
Park on June 6, but that
when he went to retrieve
it, he was surrounded by
knife-wielding teens and
decided to back off.
“Seven kids rushed to
me, threatening me as I
continued to retrieve my
son’s bike. I didn’t engage
with them, but they
were trying to attack me,”
said the dad, who asked
his name not be used. “I
backed away when one of
them showed me a knife.
I want something to be
done because I’m afraid
they will graduate to
something worse than
stealing bikes.”
Another Marine Park
mom, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, claims
that her son was in the
park near Fillmore Avenue
on June 13, when
two kids approached
him while he was playing
basketball, asking
“hey can you teach us
how to do wheelies,” before
nabbing his custom
So Cal Flyer, a trick bike
manufactured by SE Bicycles,
which retails for
between $500 and $700.
Police recorded two additional
heists targeting
middle-school-aged kids
and their bikes within the
63rd Precinct, which includes
Marine Park, Mill
Basin, and Flatlands.
The fi rst occurred on
Flatbush Avenue near
Baughman Street on June
13 at 4:40 p.m., when two
12-year-old kids and a 13-
year-old approached the
victim, 12, and started
pressuring him to hand
over his bike, before eventually
kicking him off and
then riding away, cops
said.
Cops busted three suspects
on June 20, charging
the kids as juveniles
with robbery, petit larceny,
assault and criminal
possession of stolen
property.
The second theft occurred
back in Marine
Park near Fillmore Avenue
on June 21 at 5:40 p.m.,
when a crook approached
a 13-year-old boy, ordered
him off his bike, and then
pedaled away, cops said.
Police were unable to
provide additional information
about the types
of bike stolen in those incident,
but Sarah and her
husband claim they’ve
spoken to other parents
and are aware of fi ve trick
bikes being stolen.
Police have responded
to the bike thefts by leading
targeted patrols of
parks within the 63rd
Precinct, and locals are
encouraged to contact
the precinct to register
the bikes with the department,
making it easier to
return the bikes in the
event of a robbery, according
a spokesman for the
department.
But frustrated parents
feel that enough is being
done, and Sarah claims
she won’t be satisfi ed until
the city allocates a permanent
security detail to
the embattled park.
“Are Marine Park residents
just forgotten? I
mean we are people and
we have families,” Sarah
said. “There should be
someone here monitoring
the park.”
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ins walked away, the offi -
cer followed him.
The policeman attempted
to grab Hawkins,
who told him not to touch
him, before he lifted Reddington
by his arms and
threw him over his back,
causing him to plummet
to the ground, according
to Reddington’s complaint
fi led with Brooklyn District
Attorney Eric Gonzalez’s
offi ce.
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 offi cer, who
merely fell as the young
man ducked out of the way.
“The kid is walking inside
the park, the offi cer —
it was a white offi cer — he
comes behind him and he
went to snatch him from
behind,” said Sandra Rodriguez.
“The kid didn’t
know what was going on so
he jumped forward and the
offi cer 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 offi cers 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 was
behind him. And they
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 offi cers
were too quick to resort to
violence.
“They didn’t say stop or
nothing, tackled him for
no reason and didn’t ask
nobody what happened, or
nothing,” he said. “That’s
not how you f------ do your
job.”
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 confl icting 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 offi ce 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 confl icts 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.
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A jogger informed the
worried dog-owner that he
had witnessed a slim, sixfoot
tall man with curly
blonde hair running with
the canine toward the park’s
exit at Grand Army Plaza.
After fi ling 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
four-legged 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.
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 shakedown
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.”
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