Early on Saturday, 18 November, NYPD officers from Brooklyn's 75th precinct shot and killed David Kostovski, 29, as they tried to arrest him. The police officers fired two series of shots at the deceased, who was allegedly mentally ill. They first shot at him after he refused to put down the broken bottle in his hand, which they thought was a knife, and lunged out at them as they attempted arrest, "momentarily halting him." But when Mr. Kostovski raised his non-bottle-wielding arm, they pumped a second round of bullets into him, killing him.
In total, 12 shot were fired, which almost seems reasonable in comparison to the 20 shots fired less than a week before when Brooklyn NYPD officers shot and killed a black man wielding a hairbrush during an attempted arrest. This time the officers did not even believe that their "suspect" had a gun.
"These cops got to stop this," Brooklyn resident Shirley Smith says in a Times interview. "They’re shooting people like crazy."
Her sentiments cannot be echoed strongly enough.
Monday, November 19, 2007
NYPD Kill Another Man in Brooklyn
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This shit is ridiculous.
How can you shoot someone when you don't even think that they have a gun?
NYPD - an army of occupation. In a truly democratic society, workers would not only control production, but residents would control their neighborhoods. Let's take back our factories, our streets, our country, our world.
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i am disgusted with the NYPD!
i read up on this story. not sure if i can blame the NYPD for not fulfilling the role as a social program security officer.
since david kostovski's rent, the salary of the genius caseworker who did not notice this quarrel btwn the two roomates, the tenants downstairs (3 children and mother) rent and food and healthcare are funded by the taxpayer
nice to know we place mental patients/addicts @ the same residence as children.
That's a fair enough point - but we have to ask why we live in a society where the police and prisons perform much of the work that should be done by social service workers?
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