Heavy police presence, "media blockout" continue in days following shooting of Kimani Gray
Police
officers arrest a demonstrator during a march after a vigil held for
Kimani "Kiki" Gray in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn,
Wednesday, March 13, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Demonstrators gathered for a third night in a row
in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn Wednesday night over the
shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray by the NYPD over the weekend.
Residents from the area who marked the evening with another protest and
candlelight vigil were met once again by riot police—who arrested up to 50 protesters in the area including Gray’s sister.
Sophie Lewis at
In These Times reports
that the "whole of East Flatbush is becoming a so-called Frozen Zone:
an unofficial NYPD tactic of totally excluding the media from an area."
Lewis reports on the scene Wednesday night:
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