Queens Residents Protest NYPD Brutality

I'm telling you, if the mayor and the police commissioner are not careful, they are going to see some serious problems this summer:

A drug bust outside a Queens housing project erupted into a tense three-hour standoff Friday night as dozens of angry residents marched on the 113th Precinct and cops in riot gear stood guard over their stationhouse.

Shocked witnesses said police officers pounded on brothers Raynard Fields, 27, and Corey Crichlow, 33, outside the Baisley Park Houses during the 7:45 p.m. arrest on Foch Blvd.

“The cops came up to the car and dragged (Crichlow) out and started beating on him,” said witness Gary Frazier, 22. “When (Fields) tried to calm the situation down, they beat him down. Cops came from everywhere.”

About 50 incensed residents protested the arrest and what they call a pattern of brutality by the NYPD by marching down Guy R. Brewer Blvd. to the Baisley Blvd. stationhouse. They ran through the streets, knocking garbage cans over during their 6-block trek, witnesses said.

“I am sick of the 113th Precinct harassing the young black men in the Baisley projects,” said marcher Kathy Moore, 40.

Cops responded to the impromptu protest in riot helmets and batons, forcing protesters onto the sidewalk.

“They were wilding out here,” livery cab driver Danny McLennon, 42, said of the residents. “The cops shut down Guy Brewer Blvd. Not even the buses could get through.”

More cops in riot gear met protesters at the 113th Precinct, where Fields was being treated inside an ambulance parked next to the stationhouse. Sources said he suffered a deep gash to his face during the brawl. He was expected to be taken to a hospital, a relative said.

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“(Residents) were throwing things from windows,” a police source said.

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  Crichlow’s cousin said she tried to record the arrest, but a cop snatched her phone.

“(Cops) were kicking (Crichlow) in the face, stomping him, leaning on him with their knees,” said cousin Tyniera Hogan, 32. “He was trying to get up, but they kept pushing him back down . . . it didn’t look like he was resisting.”

Hogan said Crichlow was taken to a hospital with bumps and bruises.

“Some officers don’t have the respect to serve,” Hogan said of the cops who arrested his nephews and sparked the outrage. “Kids got mad and the community got mad.”

Classic - cops take the phone away so that the handling of the arrest cannot be recorded.

They're using tons of technology to record citizens wherever they go.

But the state sure does not like its officers to be recorded, does it?

Because they're teaching the boys and girls in blue to first take out the recorders.

Well, these incidents of unrest are starting to mount.

This one comes on the heels of a few nights of unrest in East Flatbush after a 16 year old was shot and killed by the police.

And as I said earlier, if the Mayor and the commissioner and the NYPD are not careful, one of these incidents is going to erupt into something city wide.

There is a lot of anger out there at the police.

And frankly, the mayor and the commissioner could do a lot to defuse that - if they cared to.