ICE agents question locals during the raid in Gravesend.
Photo by Todd Maisel
ICE cold
Protestors gathered outside the hospital to protest the immigration authority’s
presence in Kings County. Photo by Trey Pentacost
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Dinos roar!
Live ‘Jurassic World’ show stomps into Barclays
Dino-mite!: A new show will bring the dinosaurs from “Jurassic Park” to life. Photo by Feld Entertainment
By Rose Adams This show has T-Rex appeal!
An extravagant new show
inspired by the beloved movie
“Jurassic Park” will transform Barclays
Center into a prehistoric playground
from Feb. 20 to 23. “Jurassic World
Live” introduces a new story set in the
Jurassic cinematic universe, and will
feature more than 20 life-size dinosaur
puppets, according to the show’s tour
coordinator.
“The T-Rex is 42 feet long,” said Adrien
Baez. “Imagine the size of a school bus —
that’s her size.”
The story, which takes place between
the first and second “Jurassic World”
movies, stars a team of scientists trying to
save Jeanie, the world’s smartest troodon,
from a group of evil conspirators who want
to use her as a weapon.
The performance will use projections
and scenery to reproduce the jungles of Isla
Nublar, Jurassic World’s home base, inside
the sports arena. It will also feature a rich
diversity of dinosaurs who look just like
their on-screen counterparts, including
Blue the Velociraptor, the Tyrannosaurus
Rex, a triceratops, and several flying
pteranodons, Baez said.
Some dinosaurs will be played by
actors carrying 120-pound costumes,
while others are fully animatronic,
controlled remotely by puppeteers who
determine their movement, expressions,
and breathing from the sidelines. The
dinos are so big that the tour company has
to employ dozens of trucks to move them
from city to city, Baez said.
“The T-Rex we have to transport in two
trucks that are used to transport Nascar
cars,” he explained. “It takes two days to
load the dinosaurs.”
The dinosaurs are not only accurate
to their antediluvian originals, but they
also reflect details from the movies. The
T-Rex figure, for example, still has injuries
from her battle with the Indominus Rex in
“Jurassic World,” Baez noted.
“She even has scratch marks from that
fight,” he said.
The enormous thunder lizards are a hit
with kids, but the live tour has something
for everyone, said Baez, including
genuinely touching moments between
Jeanie the dinosaur and her creator.
“It has action, it has a very cool
storyline, it has dinosaurs,” he said.
“There’s that connection between Jeannie
and Dr. Kate Walker, and you’re at the
edge of your seat tearing up.”
“Jurassic World Live” at Barclays
Center 620 Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush
Avenue in Prospect Heights, (917) 618–
6100, www.barclayscenter.com. Feb. 20
at 7 pm; Feb. 21–22 at 11 am, 3 pm, and
7 pm; and Feb. 23 at noon and 4 pm.
$15–$100.
Your entertainment
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HOW TO REACH US
COURIER L 2 IFE, FEBRUARY 14-20, 2020
BY TODD MAISEL
AND ROSE ADAMS
A federal immigration offi
cer shot a man in the face
during an enforcement raid in
Gravesend on Feb. 6 morning,
according to police.
The ICE agent was attempting
to arrest the boyfriend
of the victim’s mother
at their West 12th Street home
at around 8:15 am, causing a
bloody scuffl e when the offi cer
fi red one shot that ricocheted
off Erick Diaz’s hand and
lodged into his cheek.
Emergency medical personnel
rushed to the scene
between Quentin Road and
Highlawn Avenue and took 26-
year-old Diaz to Maimonides
Medical Center in stable condition
shortly after, according to
police.
Immigration authorities
had arrived on the scene in a
Chevy Suburban with the intention
of arresting 36-year-old
undocumented person, according
to an eye witness.
“He was right there and the
offi cer pulled a gun, and shot
the guy. It just didn’t look professional.
He wouldn’t tell the
guy why they were arresting
him,” said Avi Zlita, who still
had blood on his sleeve after
tending to Diaz after the shooting.
Following the shooting, the
New York Police Department
took the lead investigating the
incident, and took the suspect
to the 62nd Precinct for further
investigation. It is not currently
clear if he will be turned
over to ICE’s custody.
The city’s Police Department
had not been involved in
the initial enforcement raid,
according to a departmnet
spokesman.
According to another witness,
the ICE offi cers tased and
pepper sprayed the target of
the raid “about 20 times” as he
ran through the streets, resisting
their attempts to cuff him.
“They tackled him and
he didn’t want to go and they
tried to cuff him and they pepper
sprayed and tased him,”
said Kevin Yanez Cruz, the
wounded victim’s brother.
“The gun was literally right
on the side of my head when it
went off.”
The witnesses suspect that
the ICE agents targeted the person
because he had recently received
a ticket for driving without
a licence.
Cruz, however, had been living
in the United States legally,
according to his brother.
“My brother was not in
trouble – he is here legally,” he
said. “My brother pays taxes –
he’s been here since he was 18.
This cop aimed for the kill.”
The raid comes just hours
after President Donald Trump
launched a graphic tirade
against New York City’s ‘sanctuary
city’ policies during his
State of the Union Address on
Wednesday.
“Just 29 days ago, a criminal
alien freed by the sanctuary
city of New York was charged
with the brutal rape and murder
of a 92-year-old woman,”
said Trump. “The killer had
been previously arrested for
assault, but under New York’s
sanctuary policies, he was set
free. If the city had honored
ICE’s detainer request, his victim
would be alive today.”
In the aftermath of the
bloody incident, dozens of activists
and elected offi cials
gathered outside Maimonides
Medical Center, waiting hours
in the cold for an update on
Diaz’s condition, and to protest
the immigration enforcement
agency’s tactics in Kings
County.
“It’s disgusting that they’ve
gone to these lengths,” said
Flatbush resident Charlie Moran,
a member of the pro-immigrant
Internationalist Group.
“It’s outrageous.”
One community leader
said at 5 pm that ICE agents
remained in the hospital, and
that activists would stay to protect
the victim’s family from
ICE agents when they left the
hospital.
“We’re going to stay here
until ICE leaves and the family
goes home,” said Ravi Ragbir,
the executive director of New
Sanctuary Coalition. “This
hospital should be a sanctuary
place.”
Councilman Carlos
Menchaca (D-Sunset Park)
also visited the hospital, where
he met with the victim and his
family, and assured activists
that all was well.
“Good things are happening,”
said Menchaca, who
didn’t elaborate the victim’s
condition, but indicated that it
was improving. “New Yorkers
are coming to help New Yorkers.”
Immigration agent shoots
man in Gravesend
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