{"id":125936,"date":"2019-07-28T14:37:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T18:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=125936"},"modified":"2019-07-28T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T18:48:29","slug":"was-the-brooklyn-block-party-mass-shooting-a-planned-gun-control-black-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=125936","title":{"rendered":"Was the Brooklyn block party mass shooting a planned &#8216;gun control&#8217; black operation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Shooting at Brooklyn block party leaves eleven injured, one dead<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-28-at-2.46.24-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-28-at-2.46.24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"679\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-125939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-28-at-2.46.24-PM.png 1021w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-28-at-2.46.24-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-28-at-2.46.24-PM-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Larry Celona and Alex Taylor<br \/>\nNew York Post<\/p>\n<p>Two \u201cbrazen\u201d lone gunmen opened fire at a massive Brownsville, Brooklyn, block party on Saturday night, leaving a 38-year-old man dead and 11 others injured, law enforcement sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The gunfire erupted just before 11 p.m. as the annual two-day \u201cOld Timers Day\u201d party was ending and thousands of attendees were leaving, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The violence was preliminarily blamed on two shooters who remained at large early Sunday, and who had blasted into the crowd despite a contingent of some 100 cops monitoring the event, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never heard of 12 people shot in one incident \u2014 ever,\u201d one veteran investigator told The Post of the bloodshed at Mendoza Park at Christopher and Hegeman avenues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the worst, most brazen shootings I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJeffries<\/a>, JUST NOW, THERE ARE 7 PEOPLE SHOT, 2 LIKELY TO EXPIRE AT HEGEMAN AVE X CHRISTOPHER ST. INSTEAD OF BEING BUSY WITH IMPEACHMENT, CLEAN UP YOUR DISTRICT. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/neQxmpCbD3\">pic.twitter.com\/neQxmpCbD3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joel Fischer \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@realJoelFischer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realJoelFischer\/status\/1155320056856948738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The injured were rushed to nearby Brookdale Hospital and to Kings County Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>By midnight, detectives had found one abandoned firearm and were combing the ground for more evidence among hundreds of scattered beer bottles, cans, cups and other debris.<\/p>\n<p>The party is in its 56th year and features concerts, food and exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees travel from across the country to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard shots and I ducked,\u201d said one 66-year-old man who was at the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I stuck my head up, and the smoke cleared, it was pure pandemonium,\u201d said the man, who asked not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was chaos,\u201d said Gary Miller, 60, a vendor at the party.<br \/>\nPeople were breaking down, having outbursts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were enjoying the evening and all of a sudden shots rang out,\u201d he remembered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShots rang out and the crowd was already dispersing and you heard about 9 to 11 shots and everyone was running and scattering for cover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a terrible shooting in Brownsville tonight that shattered a peaceful neighborhood event,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/1155336782600376320\">Mayor de Blasio tweeted<\/a>\u00a0at close to 1 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened in the same precinct where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/22\/total-anarchy-nypd-cops-get-drenched-by-buckets-of-water\/\">the first of four water-dousing attacks on cops broke out<\/a>\u00a0on the previous Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/28\/shooting-at-brooklyn-block-party-leaves-six-injured-one-dead\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/28\/shooting-at-brooklyn-block-party-leaves-six-injured-one-dead\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting at Brooklyn block party leaves eleven injured, one dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}