MOUNT HOPE, The Bronx (WABC) — Police are investigating after a three-year-old boy and an 11-month-old boy were stabbed to death in the Bronx.
It happened at a family shelter on Echo Place in Mount Hope on Saturday evening. The boys were found with multiple stab wounds to the neck and torso.
NYPD held an update Saturday night:
When police arrived they found the mother inside the apartment on the third floor acting erratic. Sources say the mother then tried to burn the apartment down with the stove and then turned the water on.
Police then took the mother into custody. She was taken to the hospital for evaluation.
Less than an hour later, a second 911 call was then received reporting two unresponsive children at the same location. Officers returned to the apartment where they found the three-year-old and 11-month old with stab wounds. Officers and another family member attempted to resuscitate the boys, but they were unsuccessful.
Neighbors who live down the hall say the walls in the building are thin. They say they head the parents of the two young boys arguing and screaming earlier in the night. They also heard the boys father hysterically crying for help.
“He was screaming hysterically. He was screaming ‘help me.’ And I came and opened my door and I seen him coming down the hall with the two boys in his arms. They were dead, they were dead. There was blood everywhere,” said Shannon Holyfield.
The boys were rushed to Columbia Presbyterian in extremely critical condition where they later died.
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MOTT HAVEN, The Bronx (WABC) — A man was fatally stabbed during a feud aboard an MTA bus in the Bronx, the eighth person to be killed in the transit system this year, and the third person to be fatally stabbed in transit in 10 days.
Lamont Barkley, 55, got into a verbal dispute with a man and woman, believed to be boyfriend and girlfriend, on a BX19 bus at about 8:25 p.m. Sunday night.
The argument escalated and police say the man stabbed Barkley multiple times in the stomach at East 149th Street and Gerard Avenue. He died at the hospital.
Detectives first encountered 42-year-old Ebony Jackson on Sunday night at Lincoln Hospital, where she was being treated for injuries they believe she suffered in the scuffle.
Detectives believe Barkley first got into a dispute with Jackson at Glen Roy’s bar at 145 East 149th Street, down the street from where he was killed. They believe when Barkley left the bar, Jackson called her boyfriend, who confronted then Barkley on the bus.
The boyfriend has not been apprehended.
Jackson remains at Lincoln Hospital, where she is being treated. She is being charged with murder and manslaughter.
Barkley’s death is the eighth to happen in the transit system this year.
Last week, 38-year-old Charles Moore was getting off a northbound 4 train in the Bronx Thursday night when he was stabbed multiple times in the back and chest by a suspect who came up behind him in what police said they believe was an unprovoked attack.
Just hours before Moore was stabbed and killed, two other victims were stabbed in seemingly random attacks on the subway.
On Monday, riders said they now have more questions about where and if they are truly safe riding the city’s transit, but many told Eyewitness News they don’t have a choice.
“It’s hard, and then you have to go to work through this in the morning and you go a couple of blocks down, it’s becoming zombieville, it’s just bad,” one resident said.
Police are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.
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MORRIS HEIGHTS, Bronx (WABC) — Police have made an arrest in the deadly stabbing of a man in a Bronx subway station on Thursday.
Saquan Lemons, 27, of the Bronx was arrested Saturday afternoon on charges including murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.
The victim, Charles Moore, 38, was getting off a northbound No. 4 train as it arrived at the 176th Street station just before 9 p.m. Thursday when he was stabbed multiple times in the back and chest.
Moore collapsed on the platform awas rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he later died, becoming the seventh person to be killed in the NYC transit system this year, and the second fatal subway stabbing in less than a week.
Friends and family say that Moore’s world revolved around his 8-year-old daughter, Charlie.
“She was his life. She was Charles’ life – if there’s one thing I can say about my son, he was a damn good father. A better father than what we had,” said Moore’s mother, Frances Vanterpool.
On Saturday, friends toasted him, cried and lit candles for a second night – but this time, they knew that a suspect was in custody.
Police did not say how they found Lemons, but the MTA’s Security chief thanked him in a statement for their use of MTA cameras in making the quick arrest.
Police are still investigating whether this was a random attack. Moore’s mother says it had to be.
“It was unprovoked, there was no words spoken between that man and my son. The man stabbed my son in the back, several times,” she said.
While the arrest is a relief to family and friends who were honoring Moore, it doesn’t make the loss any less painful.
“I mean, he’s arrested – that’s it. But it won’t bring my friend back,” said Darrel Colquhoun.
Colquhoun was actually on the phone with Moore minutes before he was attacked, while Moore was on his way home from work at Citi Field.
“Everything was normal, we were just talking about my son’s basketball,” Colquhoun said.
They were planning to hang out before Moore would spend the weekend with his little girl.
Moore’s mother says a murder conviction is all she wants at this point – her family has been through unimaginable loss. Ten years ago, Moore’s nephew, Teddy Beckles was killed in a stabbing outside his school. Just last year, Moore’s sister suffered a fatal heart attack.
“I can’t take no more,” said Vanterpool.
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MORRIS HEIGHTS, Bronx (WABC) — Three men were stabbed, one fatally, in separate attacks in the New York City subway system within an eight-hour span.
A 38-year-old Bronx man was getting off a northbound No. 4 train as it arrived at the 176th St. station just before 9 p.m. Thursday when he was stabbed multiple times in the back and chest by a suspect who came up behind him in what seemed to police to be an unprovoked attack.
The victim collapsed on the platform, was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he later died, becoming the seventh person to be killed in the NYC transit system this year, and the second fatal subway stabbing in less than a week.
His name was being withheld pending notification of family members.
The suspect is described as a man with a dark complexion, about 5’11, and was last seen wearing a dark-hooded sweatshirt and Nike sneakers.
Earlier Thursday, at 5:15 p.m., a 45-year-old man was slashed in the face by a man who followed him into a Brooklyn subway station in East New York.
Just after 1 p.m., a 59-year-old man was stabbed in the back at a Harlem subway station. The victim was waiting for a train at the 125th St station at St Nicholas Avenue when he got into an argument with a man he didn’t know, possibly after a harmless bump on the platform.
The other man pulled a knife and stabbed the victim in the upper back. He was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside hospital in stable condition
The suspect, last seen wearing blue jeans, a blue jacket and blue tinted glasses, ran off.
New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the NYPD had “to do more” after three people were stabbed, one fatally, in three separate attacks on the subway within an 8-hour span.
“We’ve surged thousands of officers into the subway system,” Sewell said Friday during a news conference. “We have to deter and prevent this activity.”
Police said it was too soon to talk motive for the seemingly random attacks. None of the suspects is in custody.
“There was no contact in that train car between the victim and assailant,” Chief of Department Kenneth Corey said of the fatal stabbing in the Bronx. “Looking at the video, it looks as though the attacker goes after that individual specifically. We don’t know what the motive is.”
Police have made more than 600 arrests for illegal cutting instruments on the subway so far this year.
Transit Chief Jason Wilcox said that’s a 95% increase from last year.
“The events of yesterday, very disturbing,” Wilcox said. “We are going to be out there with the riders and for the riders, keeping them safe.”
Eyewitness News spoke with concerned riders overnight.
“The most I can do different is basically be a little more vigilant than usual, but I’m not surprised,” said one.
“I typically feel OK at this particular subway, first time I heard something this tragic at this subway,” said another.
“Crime is pretty high right now, so I don’t think it’s an isolated situation,” said a third commuter.
Anyone with information on any of these cases is urged to contact the NYPD.
Call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit tips by visiting the CrimeStoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by messaging on Twitter @NYPDTips.
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New York Mets sweep two-game Subway Series in the ninth inning as Starling Marte’s walk-off single seals dramatic 3-2 win over crosstown rivals Yankees in front of a packed Citi Field
New York Mets beat the Yankees 3-2 Wednesday, securing win deep in the ninth
Starling Marte’s single allowed Eduardo Escobar to score and seal the victory
Wednesday’s win completes a two-game Subway Series sweep for the Mets
Superstar Aaron Judge endured a dreadful night, going 0-5 at Citi Field
By Ben Nagle For Dailymail.Com
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Starling Marte delivered the walk-off RBI single Wednesday night for the host New York Mets, who edged the New York Yankees 3-2 to sweep a two-game interleague series from their crosstown rivals.
The Mets have won three straight following a three-game losing streak to extend their lead in the NL East to three games. The Yankees, who entered Wednesday with the best record in baseball, are 2-5 since the All-Star break and 10-12 this month.
Eduardo Escobar led off the ninth by doubling on the first pitch thrown by Wandy Peralta (2-3). Escobar went to third on a bunt by Tomas Nido and remained there when Brandon Nimmo was credited with a single when Peralta momentarily bobbled his comebacker.
New York Mets’ Starling Marte celebrates after hitting a walk-off RBI single in the ninth inning
New York Yankees’ Gleyber Torres watches his two-run homer against the New York Mets
Marte then ripped a 1-0 pitch beyond shortstop and into left field to score Escobar. Marte raised his arm as he rounded first base before being wrapped up by Pete Alonso and Nimmo as their teammates mobbed them at second base.
Seth Lugo (2-2) struck out three in 1 2/3 innings of relief to earn the win.
Max Scherzer wiggled in and out of trouble over seven scoreless innings for the Mets, who carried a 2-0 lead into the eighth thanks to a Pete Alonso homer leading off the second and Francisco Lindor’s RBI single in the third.
Torres (No 25) of the Yankees celebrates his eighth-inning game-tying two-run home
David Peterson replaced Max Scherzer at the mound and Torres tied the game moments later
Torres watches his two-run home run during the eighth inning against their crosstown rivals
New York Mets starting pitcher Scherzer (21) pitches in the first inning Wednesday
But David Peterson, the Mets’ unofficial sixth starter, gave up the lead in five pitches in the eighth, when he issued a four-pitch walk to Anthony Rizzo before Gleyber Torres homered to right.
Scherzer, pitching on his 38th birthday, allowed five hits and walked two while striking out six. In five starts on his birthday, Scherzer is 3-1 with a 0.82 ERA.
Domingo German, making his second start of the season after missing the first half with a right shoulder injury, gave up two runs on five hits and two walks while striking out seven over 4 2/3 innings.
New York Mets’ Pete Alonso hits a home run in the second inning to give them the lead
Alonso (20) celebrates with Daniel Vogelbach (32) after hitting a homer in bottom of the 2nd
New York Yankees star Aaron Judge endured a night to forget Wednesday at Citi Field
Recap Sportsmail’s live blog as the Yankees and Mets went head-to-head in the second match of the two-game Subway Series…
Dion Middleton, 45, was charged in the Bronx County Criminal Court with second-degree murder, as well as first- and second-degree manslaughter, according to a spokesperson for the New York State Attorney General’s office.
Middleton did not enter a plea and was expected to be released later Friday after posting a $1 million bond.
Investigators are looking into the possibility the victim, identified by police as Raymond Chaluisant, 18, fired a water gun at Middleton, sparking the altercation, according to a law enforcement official.
Middleton’s attorney, Joey Jackson, said Middleton was walking when he felt something strike his back and heard objects pelting all around him. Jackson, who is also a CNN legal analyst, said Middleton thought he was being struck by the fragments of a bullet that whizzed by him, and thought there were multiple shots. That’s when he pulled his gun and fired a single shot, Jackson said.
“You’re walking, it’s 1:30 at night, you get something hit in the back, there’s mayhem all over because apparently the person was firing shots everywhere, and it was just kind of mayhem from my client’s perspective,” Jackson said. “He turns around, he sees the guy [Middleton] they engage and, boom, he fires a round, which happened to hit him.”
Jackson said the car then sped off, leaving Middleton to wonder whether anyone was struck by the shot he fired.
“He shot, he discharged his firearm in the direction of a car, not knowing whether he hit anything or anyone,” Jackson said.
Moments after Middleton’s arraignment Friday, the president of the union representing correction officers defended him, claiming he feared for his life.
“Our officer fired a single shot in a situation where he felt his life was in immediate danger, particularly after feeling something hit his back,” said Correction Officer’s Union president Benny Boscio Jr. in a statement. “We are also aware that a NYPD Traffic Agent had also reported being hit with pellets in the same vicinity an hour beforehand. Toy guns no longer resemble toys, as the images of this water pistol demonstrate and they remain an ongoing threat to public safety.”
Police said officers responded to a 911 call for a shooting at the corner of East Tremont Avenue and The Grand Concourse about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, according to the news release. The officers who responded found the 18-year-old in the vehicle with a gunshot wound to the face.
When the officers opened the door to aid the teen, they found the toy water gun, which fires gel water beads, the official said.
Chaluisant was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Investigators at the scene later determined the original location of the incident was near the Cross Bronx Expressway and Morris Avenue, about a half-mile away. Hours later, Middleton was arrested, police said.
Officer ‘will be immediately suspended without pay’
“These very serious charges are in no way a reflection of the officers who work to keep our city safe every day,” New York City Correction Commissioner Louis A. Molina said earlier. “This officer will be immediately suspended without pay, and if the charges are true he will face the full consequences of the law and be terminated.”
The city’s correction officers maintain security at jails and other detention centers.
Middleton has been a correction officer since 2013 and his current job was working at the department’s firing range in Rodman’s Neck in the Bronx, according to a Department of Correction spokesman.
Middleton went home and then to sleep after the shooting, according to another law enforcement official. He was then believed to have gone to his job, the official said. Middleton was arrested by police at the gun range Thursday afternoon, the official said.
While in custody, Middleton made incriminating statements to investigators, the official said.
Investigators are still searching for surveillance video of the shooting.
The NYPD said in a tweet Thursday, shortly after it announced Middleton’s arrest, the bead blasters, which “shoot gel water beads propelled by a spring-loaded air pump” qualify as air rifles, which are illegal in New York City.
A police spokesperson said the tweet was not in response to the shooting, but because other cases involving gel water beads have occurred recently.
A Bronx deli owner has a funny way of showing his disapproval for rampant violence in the neighborhood — once a year, he lets members of a notorious fight club beat each other up in his shop.
Best Hood Deli 1 owner Scott Oudeh insists opening his doors to the underground fight club Rumble — which has been broken up by the sheriff’s department in the past for unlicensed combat, guns and drugs — is actually a way to keep the peace.
“It’s to stop the guns and the violence,” insisted Oudeh, 28, of giving the fighters a place to battle for the past four years. “It’s to show people that you might have beef with each other, but you don’t have to resort to shooting. Just put the gloves on and fight.”
Footage of the most recent bodega brawl — attended by roughly 30 screaming fans and even a toddler — shows one man flailing his fists until he brutally cracks another in the head, sending him into a stockpile of two-liter soda bottles that burst all over the floor of the Melrose deli.
Despite the vicious nature of the fights, Oudeh said no one has ever been seriously injured and the amateur combatants hug it out and shake hands afterward.
“If there’s beef, it gets squashed,” the former boxer and high school wrestler said.
In response to a clip of the fight posted on TikTok, one user commented, “Love it. Keeping the peace the right way.” Another said, “Better than guns.”
But others said the fights are bad for business — and the neighborhood.
“I like Scott, and he runs a good, clean store, but that’s a stupid idea,” said Victor Lopez, 55, who’s also a former boxer.
Scott Oudeh lets members of a notorious fight club beat each other up in his shop. J.C. Rice for NY Post
“You see in the video how close those guys get to the fridges and all the glass. One guy cuts himself, gets badly hurt, and Scott will get locked up.”
Nai Longli, 45, who runs the laundromat next door was shocked when The Post showed him footage of the fight.
“Oh my gosh. We always wave to each other, and he’s a great neighbor, but I never knew that kind of thing went on there,” he said.
But the deli man sees the fights as a form of public service.
“The South Bronx is known for a lot of violence, and we’re trying to calm it down in a way the neighborhood understands it,” Oudeh said. “It’s a free event. I have to close my store when they come, so I actually lose some money, but for the community, I’m willing to lose a few hundred bucks.”
Year-to-date, the 40th Precinct, whose cops patrol the neighborhood, has logged 416 felony assaults compared to 312 in 2021, a 33 percent surge. Murders are up from six to seven, a 17 percent bump and misdemeanor assaults climbed 12 percent from 436 to 490. Shooting incidents are down slightly from 28 to 25, or 11 percent.
Since 2018, the police have responded to the deli for a handful of shopliftings, robberies and disputes, but have never received complaints of underground boxing matches there.
A growing cluster of Legionnaires’ disease cases in the Bronx has resulted in the death of one person and illness in 18 others, eight of whom are currently hospitalized, the New York City Health Department said Wednesday.
The cases appear to be linked to four water cooling towers on top of buildings in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, where officials said they found Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease.
“While most people exposed to the bacteria do not get sick, Legionnaires’ disease can cause severe illness or be fatal for those at higher risk, including people with pre-existing chronic health issues,” said the city’s health commissioner, Dr. Ashwin Vasan, in a statement. “That’s why it’s crucial that you seek health care as soon as you experience flulike symptoms.”
Outbreaks of the disease happen with some regularity in New York City, where aging water cooling tanks on top of buildings can become reservoirs for the bacteria. The disease is treatable by antibiotics if caught early enough.
The last known death in a cluster of cases was in 2018, and was linked to an outbreak of 18 cases in Upper Manhattan.
A 2018 health department analysis showed that between 200 and 700 cases were reported in the city each year, and that the rate was rising. Large clusters of cases, however, were uncommon, happening on average once or twice per year, the health department said.
In 2015, the city experienced its largest outbreak, when 138 people were sickened and 16 died of the disease in the Bronx. Afterward, the city instituted several prevention efforts, including a requirement that building owners test their water supply regularly for the bacteria.
But the disease persists — last year, a cluster of 18 cases in Harlem was linked, at least in part, to an infected water cooling tower at Harlem Hospital, a city public hospital.
With this latest outbreak, city health inspectors have been following up with residents to warn them of the cluster and ordered the owners of the towers to disinfect them.
On Wednesday, the health department called on New Yorkers with flulike symptoms, cough, fever or difficulty breathing who live in the Highbridge area to contact a physician immediately. Symptoms can also resemble other types of pneumonia, causing chills and muscle aches.
The disease is named after an outbreak linked to an American Legion convention in 1976 at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. More than 2,000 Legionnaires attended, and afterward, 182 got sick and 29 died. The bacteria was later discovered growing in the hotel’s air conditioning system.
Legionnaires’ disease is more common in warm weather, when conditions are favorable for Legionella growth in cooling towers, whirlpool spas, hot tubs, humidifiers, hot water tanks and evaporative condensers of large air-conditioning systems, the health department said. It is caused by breathing infected water vapor and is not transmitted from person to person.
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has been reported in a Bronx neighborhood, city health officials said Friday.
Four people in the borough’s Highbridge neighborhood have been diagnosed with the disease, which is a type of pneumonia caused by bacteria that forms in warm water, according to the city Department Of Health. Other individuals are awaiting test results.
Legionnaires’ is not contagious and is treatable with antibiotics if caught early, officials said.
The health department said it is investigating and “sampling and testing water from all cooling tower systems in the area of the cluster.”
The Legionella bacteria typically grows in “cooling towers, whirlpool spas, hot tubs, humidifiers, hot water tanks, and evaporative condensers of large air-conditioning systems,” the department said.
Those experiencing flu-like symptoms such as coughing, fever and difficulty breathing are encouraged to get tested by their doctor. Those over the age of 50, cigarette smokers, chronic lung disease and those with compromised immune systems are considered higher risk to Legionnaires’.
“Any New Yorkers with flu-like symptoms should contact a health care provider as soon as possible,” Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said in a statement.
“Legionnaires’ disease can be effectively treated if diagnosed early, but New Yorkers at higher risk, like adults aged 50 and older, those who smoke or have chronic lung conditions should be especially mindful of their symptoms and seek care as soon as symptoms begin.”
MELROSE, The Bronx (WABC) — Calls for justice grow louder in the Bronx, where three teenagers were shot — one fatally — near their school, with the 17-year-old suspected gunman being charged as an adult.
Jeremiah Ryan appeared in court Monday, amid calls to increase the number of safety agents working at schools.
Grief counselors were available for classmates of Angellyh Yambo, the University Prep Charter High School student who was shot and killed walking home from school Friday.
The gunfire erupted at the corner of St. Ann’s Avenue and East 156th Street in the Melrose section of the Bronx, and police contend Ryan stood outside the corner bodega and fired half a dozen shots at another young man across the street.
But the bullets missed and flew half a block, where they struck Yambo and another girl. A third bullet struck another student a block away.
Yambo was hit in the back, and she died from her injuries after the bullet pierced one of her lungs and a pulmonary artery.
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Funeral services are set for Tuesday, and her heartbroken mother is speaking out.
“I am preparing for one of the hardest days of my life tomorrow,” Yanely Henriquez said. “We need a change. You know, we should not be burying our kids. Mothers should not be going through this.”
She said she still cannot process what has happened.
“To see the picture of my daughter on TV is something that is unbearable,” Henriquez said. “And I can’t process it, still. I still question myself like why my daughter’s picture is on TV.”
At the scene on Monday, mothers who have experienced the same horrific loss gathered to demand change and accountability.
Jackie Rowe Adams lost two sons to gun violence.
“I know their pain, and there is hope,” she said. “I want them to know, the families, that you’re not alone.”
Eve Hendricks’ son Brandon was also an innocent bystander and student with a bright future shot and killed in 2020. The suspect’s trial in that case starts this week.
“We also need the judges’ hands to be free to make the right decisions and keep criminals in prison and off street,” she said.
Yambo was a ninth grader at University Prep, which was co-founded by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.
Weingarten visited the school Monday morning.
“Senseless shootings of children should never happen on the streets of New York or in a school,” she said. “And if we are not angry about and we are not upset about it, then we have lost our humanity.”
Police say the weapon used in the shooting was a so-called ghost gun, an untraceable firearm made from a kit you can buy online.
“We actually heard the shots when it happened,” junior Carlo Coelo said. “We were down the block from the school.”
Coelo and his friend, Rafael Marrero would have been there on the very streetcorner where the shots were fired, but both made a last-minute decision to be somewhere else.
“It is a worry in the back of my head because I was pretty close by to the situation,” Marrero said. “That could have been me.”
Police say Ryan had no criminal record when he opened fire just after school let out. He was arrested Saturday at home.
He is now charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, and two counts of criminal weapons possession. He is presently charged as an adult, but it’s possible the case could be moved to Family Court, with a decision pending later this week.
“We need safe corridor programs,” Weingarten said. “We need more safety agents in schools, and we need to get ghost guns and other guns off the streets.”
The Biden administration on Monday announced that the Department of Justice will expand the definitions of “firearm,” frame,” and “receiver” so that more guns are subject to federal laws.
Speaking at the White House, Biden highlighted the Justice Department’s work to finalize new regulations to crack down on ghost guns, and announced the nomination of Steve Dettelbach, who served as a U.S. attorney in Ohio from 2009 to 2016, to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“Law enforcement is sounding the alarm,” Biden said of ghost guns, briefly holding one up for cameras to see in the Rose Garden. “Our communities are paying the price.”
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The new rule will require dealers who acquire guns with no serial numbers to give them those numbers so they can be traced.
And those dealers will now have to keep their records for as long as they remain in business.
In New York City, activists are also calling for the Department of Education to hire more school safety agents after the de Blasio administration removed thousands of those unarmed cops from schools last year.
“We need help, serious help, and no one’s listening,” parent and school safety agent Quiann Simpkins said. “The politicians are playing political football with our children.”
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