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"Policy Brutality" in Gerritsen Beach?

September 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Police Brutality

[Photo via GerritsenBeach.Net]

The telephone poles in Gerritsen Beach this weekend are sporting more than stoop sale fliers. Apparently, a bunch of fliers like the one pictured above just went up in the neighborhood related to an incident in last August. This one was photographed and posted by GerritsenBeach.Net, which keeps up with the news in that part of Brooklyn. GB writes, “On August 28th at around 6:30opm there was some sort of altercation between officers of the 61st precinct and ‘Frank, Christopher, and Steven.’ This weekend the whole old section got plastered with posters asking for witnesses to come forward…This can’t be good.” Of the people involved, the flier says the police “beat them for no reason.” We’re not sure when there are beatings for “good reason,” but “for no reason” is even worse.

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