Police flood Brooklyn neighborhood in third night of brutality protest — RT USA

14.3.13

Police flood Brooklyn neighborhood in third night of brutality protest — RT USA: Regular duty officers, police in riot gear and plainclothes officers lined the streets of Brooklyn's East Flatbush neighborhood as New Yorkers came out for a third night of protest over the police killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray.

The demonstration began at Brooklyn's 67th Precinct in East Flatbush, the part of New York's Brooklyn section where Gray was shot to death by police on Saturday. Witness and police accounts differ on whether Gray was brandishing a weapon before he was killed.

Brooklynites were heard shouting "murderers!" at the massive police presence Wednesday as officers prohibited people from even stepping onto the street in one of New York's poorer neighborhoods and police helicopters circled overhead.

Reinforcements were brought in to the neighborhood after a police car's rear windshield was smashed at the tense and occasionally loud but otherwise peaceful demonstration.