YEAR
IN REVIEW
2020
apolis police offi cer killed by
kneeling on his neck. During
one of the fi rst protests outside
the Barclays Center, violence
broke out, with protesters
throwing debris at police and
cops pepper-spraying peaceful
attendees.
Police crackdown on social
distancing mostly affects
Brooklynites, people
of color: In the beginning of
the pandemic, the city tasked
the NYPD with enforcing social
distancing guidelines and
mask-wearing ordinances.
Brooklynites received more
summonses than any residence
of any other borough,
and people of color 93 percent
of all coronavirus-related arrests.
The crackdown led to a
number of widely-criticized
police encounters that went viral
on social media, prompting
District Attorney Eric Gonzalez
to launch an investigation
into a string of violent and
“disturbing” arrests.
Brooklyn mourns death
of Grand Prospect Hall
owner Michael Halkias:
Michael Halkias, the beloved
owner of Park Slope’s iconic
Grand Prospect Hall died
from COVID-19 on May 6. The
82-year-old was remembered
for his “larger than life” personality
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— especially recognized
from his long-running
commercial where his wife, Alice
Halkias, exclaims “We make
your dreams come true!”
JUNE
More than 500 complaints
fi led regarding police misconduct
at George Floyd protests:
The Civilian Complaint
Review Board, an independent
agency that investigates
reports of police misconduct,
logged more than 500 complaints
related to the George
Floyd protests. In one case,
two offi cers were suspended
without pay for pushing a
woman to the ground, and one
was criminally charged.
Man shoots, stabs
NYPD offi cers in Flatbush:
Dzenan Camovic, a 20-yearold
Serbian national living
in Brooklyn, allegedly
stabbed a police officer in the
neck, and used the wounded
cop’s gun to shoot two other
officers on Church Avenue
in Flatbush. Responding authorities
then shot Camovic
during the ensuing panic.
All four injured people sustained
non-life threatening
wounds, and have since recovered.
Federal authorities
arrested the suspect on
a slew of charges, and claim
he was influenced by terrorist
organizations like al-
Qaida.
Inmate at Sunset Park
prison dies after offi cers
pepper spray him: Jamel
Floyd, a 35-year-old inmate
at the Metropolitan Detention
Center died after prison
guards pepper sprayed him
in the face, saying he was
“being disruptive” and “potentially
harmful to himself
and others.” The incident
came during a series of protests
over the police killing
of George Floyd in Minneapolis,
and sparked several
more protests outside the detention
center over the following
weeks.
JULY
Carroll Gardens gym
building collapses: The
three-story structure at the
corner of Court and Union
streets that once housed Body
Elite Gym was reduced to
rubble, injuring one person
with nonlife-threatening injuries.
A subsequent investigation
found that the building
had previously received thousands
of dollars worth of fi nes
from 15 years of complaints
about the building’s instability
— prompting an investigation
by the city’s Department
of Investigation.
Progressives trounce establishment
in Democratic
primaries: A slate of progresive
upstarts unseated
establishment-backed candidates
in the primary elections
for statewide offi ce.
Democratic socialist Marcela
Mitaynes beat 26-year incumbent
Assemblyman Félix Ortiz
in Sunset Park, insurgent
Greenpoint Assembly candidate
Emily Gallagher defeated
23-term incumbent Joe Lentol,
tenant organizer Phara Souffrant
Forrest overcame Assemblyman
Walter Mosley in
Fort Greene, and public school
teacher Jabari Brisport beat
the party-favored Assemblywoman
Tremaine Wright in
the race for northern Brooklyn’s
state Senate District 25.
Revel suspends service
Protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in June in one of many
protests against police violence promoted by the death of George Floyd
in Minneapolis.
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