WHAT THE HECK....YES THERE WAS A SHOOTING....YES YES YES...

I HAVE THIS JERK BLOCKED...BUT STILL HAVE TO SEE WHAT HE POSTS FROM A RESPONDER

SO NOW I HAVE TO BLOCK ALL OF YOU.......WHAT THE HECK...??????????????????          

just raise taxes

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Man shot near busy Schenectady playground
By Cathleen F. Crowley
Updated 05:17 a.m., Tuesday, June 19, 2012
  

SCHENECTADY — A 20-year-old man is in stable condition after being shot in the back on Monday night across the street from a busy playground.

"This is a place where kids are playing, and it should be safe," said City Councilwoman Marion Porterfield, who was appointed to the council two months ago to fill a vacant seat.

The shooting occurred at the corner of Paige Street and Westover Place, near a busy basketball court and playground at Jerry Burrell Park. Two weeks ago, the community held a peace rally at the opposite corner of the park to rally against street violence, Porterfield said...........................>>>>...................>>>>...............................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/loca.....40.php#ixzz1yEUrgVlV

And let us not forget how DemocraticVocieOfReason aka Glryinthhighest aka Hamburg aka VM has nothing but high praise for the mayor and the rest of the city leaders.

A shooting AGAIN occurS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT near a playground WHERE CHILDREN ARE PLAYING!!!

But allegedly there is a renaissance in the city.   Notice how the cheerleader avoids posting much anymore, how the cheerleader avoids responding to the news reports.  

Of course, he's not moving into the city himself, and REFUSES to tell us WHY



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heard he gave his notice to Town...is this true???

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heard he gave his notice to Town...is this true???

what!!!!!!

NASTY rumor....only way he would give notice is if they asked for it or if he is going into another position.....(boy, I could have a field day with "position" on that one).

it's called seething

That's no headline.
It'll be a headline when something GOOD happens on Paige St.

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That's no headline.
It'll be a headline when something GOOD happens on Paige St.

^5

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SCHENECTADY
Police called hostile to public Community leader arrested at crime scene
BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter

    A Schenectady man well-known in civic circles got to experience fi rsthand the chaos of street violence last month, as he first witnessed a shooting in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood and then had great diffi culty getting police to take his statement.
    “I was just another black guy on the Hill,” Christopher Dixon said, still frustrated days after the incident.
    Dixon is a community organizer active in many groups, including the former ACORN and New York Communities for Change. He works with city leaders. He is one of the few residents who has the police chief’s cellphone number. The shooting two weeks ago gave him a glimpse of life from the other side, among those who have no connection to police brass. His experience is lending impetus to a campaign by some pastors and community groups to build better relationships between police and the public.
    Dixon went to Jerry Burrell Park on June 18 to visit a friend and the friend’s 3-year-old niece. They were in the park when they heard gunshots.
    When Dixon turned toward the sound, he saw a young man, crouched behind a car, firing a gun. He could see puffs of smoke coming from the gun, he said.
    “So then I take off into the park and grab my buddy’s niece and run her to the house,” he said.
    Others ran, as well, but a police car turned the corner and began driving slowly up the street.
    “I think he heard the shots and was trying to figure out where they came from,” Dixon said.
    Dixon was pleased to see a quick response. The officer jumped out of his car to help a man who lay crumpled in the street with a wound to his back. The victim was later identified as 20-year-old Zaquan Wally, a city resident, who was reported to be in stable condition at Albany Medical Center.
ANGRY CROWD
    When six more offi cers arrived, they faced an unruly crowd, according to Dixon’s account. As officers set up crime scene tape, one bystander picked up a bullet casing. Others tried to walk through the site.
    Then friends or relatives of the victim began to shout at the police offi cers.
    “People are saying the fi rst officer didn’t do anything,” Dixon said.
    They appeared to be under the mistaken impression that since the fi rst officer arrived so quickly, he must have been at the scene before the shots were fi red.
    As they shouted angrily at the police, one officer started shouting back, according to Dixon’s account. At first, the officer stayed calm, though his responses were clearly angry. He said the fi rst offi cer was his friend.
    “He was saying, ‘What if I came to your job and talked about your friend?’ ” Dixon said.
    Then it got worse. The officer said he knew how the public viewed him.
    “ ‘But when something happens, we’re the first ones you call,’ ” Dixon quoted the officer as saying.
    Dixon wasn’t impressed. In such a volatile situation, he said, police should have the training to stay calm and professional.
    “You wouldn’t believe what they were saying to the crowd,” he said, adding that the officer seemed to be taunting the people.
    Dixon has filed a complaint, which the police are investigating, Public Safety Commissioner Wayne Bennett said.
    Bennett could not confirm whether Dixon’s account of the officer’s statements was correct. However, he said police must commonly deal with agitated witnesses at crime scenes and often have to ignore spectators who believe they know best what police should be doing, and in what order.
    In this case, police started with medical care for the victim, took control of the crime scene and then began identifying witnesses.
    Although most crime scenes are volatile, this one was particularly difficult. Bennett called it “instant pandemonium.”
    “Were there a lot of emotions running? Yes. You have a lot of people getting in the way,” he said. “Why would somebody pick up a bullet casing? It’s counter-productive.”
    But others said the police offi - cers shouldn’t shout at residents, no matter what the provocation.
    Paul Webster, former president of the Schenectady County chapter of the NAACP, said: “If cops are going to yell at the people they’re supposed to protect and serve, they’re going to make very little headway in the fight against crime.
    “Obviously, the officer is acting out of frustration, which only serves to increase the community’s distrust or mistrust of law enforcement.”
    Such behavior could convince residents not to tell police what they saw, making it much harder to make an arrest.
    Webster recalled how he once swore to never again call police after being “berated” by an Albany officer when he lived in that city near an alleyway where drug dealers sometimes threw away drugs during a chase.
    Young children in his yard once found a bag of crack cocaine, and Webster flushed it down the toilet rather than keep it in his possession until police arrived. Police felt he should have preserved the evidence, but Webster wasn’t willing to take that risk.
OFFERED INFORMATION
    When Dixon tried to describe the shooter he saw, he found that even those who want to report a crime don’t have an easy time of it.
    “I tried to tell the police I saw a boy shooting. They refused to listen to me,” he said.
    First, he approached the offi cer who was embroiled in the argument with the crowd. That offi cer brushed him off, even when Dixon said he thought the shooter was standing nearby. It turned out that person was seen by police crawling toward the victim just after the shots were fired. The person that Dixon saw firing a gun has not been found.
    But at the time, all Dixon knew was that he’d seen someone fi ring a gun — someone who looked like the person in the crowd. He tried to tell someone, to get other offi cers to listen to him, but no one would come near him.
    “When you come to the scene, the police are all behind the yellow tape and they will not come out,” he said in frustration.
    Eventually, an officer took his number and a detective later interviewed him. But before that happened, he crossed the yellow tape — and was arrested for disorderly conduct.
    Bennett said the arrest had nothing to do with Dixon’s insisting to talk to a police offi cer.
    “The whole issue is: Don’t come under the tape,” he said. “They’re busy. Their job is to secure that scene. You want to leave your name and number, and a detective will call you.”
    He said police would not have worried about Dixon crossing the tape if they had recognized him. But letting strangers wander through the crime scene is “a defense attorney’s dream,” he said, speculating on how a lawyer might get evidence thrown out because someone touched it, tripped over it or perhaps deliberately added it to the scene.
    Although Dixon was insistent on giving a statement immediately because he didn’t want the possible suspect to get away, Bennett said Dixon had other options.
    “He’s got my number, he’s got the chief’s number. If he was that upset about it, why didn’t he call the chief?” Bennett asked.
    But most people don’t have the personal cellphone numbers of the top police brass.
KNOWN FACE
    Newly named city Councilwoman Marion Porterfield said she has no trouble talking to police at a scene because she’s built relationships with them over many years. But she acknowledged that those who have not done so should still be able to give a witness statement.
    And she admitted that even she had a difficult time at the Jerry Burrell Park crime scene.
    Police ignored her as she waited by the edge of the crime tape. Finally, she took matters into her own hands.
    “Let me just tell you, I crossed the crime tape,” she said. “I wanted to get their attention. I crossed it, and I got their attention. They asked me to step back and I did.”
    Then she identified herself and asked to speak to the person in charge. Unlike Dixon, she was not arrested.
    Such incidents suggest to her that police need “culture sensitivity” training. She said the Rev. Richard Parsons, of Consecration Temple Church of God in Christ, has been pushing for that.
    “Maybe that’s something worth pursuing,” she said. ........................>>>>............................>>>>..........................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00101&AppName=1

Typical Kathleen Moore story - one person gets arrested for crossing the bright yellow crime scene tape and she produces a headline = "Police Hostile to teh Public".  

Moore is so inaccurate that many public and rpivate officials refuse to talk to her.

And, if I were on the City Council - I don't think I'd be bragging about crossing into a crime scene.  And Dixon and Poterfield's claim that the croiwd was hostile - in reality, was approximately 2 or 3
loudmouths.

Too bad no one in the park, at least 50 people, didn't take a moment to give the police the name of the shooter - the crowd had a number of small kids in it.

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Typical Kathleen Moore story - one person gets arrested for crossing the bright yellow crime scene tape and she produces a headline = "Police Hostile to teh Public".  

Moore is so inaccurate that many public and rpivate officials refuse to talk to her.

And, if I were on the City Council - I don't think I'd be bragging about crossing into a crime scene.  And Dixon and Poterfield's claim that the croiwd was hostile - in reality, was approximately 2 or 3
loudmouths.

Too bad no one in the park, at least 50 people, didn't take a moment to give the police the name of the shooter - the crowd had a number of small kids in it.

Now you've got to hav the persons NAME .. instead of a witness statement?

So a "small number of kids" is acceptable?

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witnessed a shooting in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood and then had great diffi culty getting police to take his statement.
    “I was just another black guy on the Hill,” Christopher Dixon said, still frustrated days after the incident.

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When Dixon turned toward the sound, he saw a young man, crouched behind a car, firing a gun. He could see puffs of smoke coming from the gun, he said.

Comon - you can't really seriously believe half the stuff you put out there, can you?

And why were there no arrests for fireworks possession or use over the last several days?  Didn't they see the spectacle?  Choosing which laws to enforce?  Too busy with automatic weapons fire?

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Bennett said the arrest had nothing to do with Dixon’s insisting to talk to a police offi cer.
    “The whole issue is: Don’t come under the tape,” he said. “They’re busy. Their job is to secure that scene. You want to leave your name and number, and a detective will call you.”
   He said police would not have worried about Dixon crossing the tape if they had recognized him

So because the police know Dixon Bennett says they wouldn't worry about him crossing the tape, that makes no sense as it is  a crime scene and NO citizen should be in the taped in area. And what's up with Porterfield because she's a council woman she thinks she has the right to compromise the scene?

Rare for me but will agree with the cops on this one.

Crowds DO get unruly.

No one should cross the tape.

Could understand a family member that is upset going over to the victim though.

Seems like Dixon got a really good look at the shooter.

If so why haven't police done a sketch and put that out in the media?  Maybe perp could be idenified.