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- From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
- Newsgroups: nyc.general
- Subject: RED HOOK 2
- Message-ID: <143.2684.uupcb@factory.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 00:10:00 GMT
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- Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis
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- This is second half of
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- Red Hook Shooting & the New York City Housing Authority
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- The Real War-Lords Are Well Protected in the Housing Projects
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- Contact:
- Ray Normandeau of Queensbridge Tenant Council, 718-392-1267
- AFTRA/SAG member Ray Normandeau is available for interviews
- E-Mail Internet: ray.normandeau@factory.com
- If your transmission is not acknowledged, it didn't get thru.
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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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- Red Hook Tenant Torres had descended several flight of stairs, gotten
- to the scene and bullets were still flying. They were drug war-lord
- bullets. Tenants allege that calls were still being made to 9-1-1
- with bullets being fired in the background. Now this should be very
- easy to check, as all calls to 9-1-1 are taped. How about someone
- listening to the tape's callers and background noise?
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- Is drug dealing sanctioned by New York City Housing Authority big
- shots? Day time drug related shootings are common at both Red Hook
- and Queensbridge Houses.
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- On December 6, 1992 the Queensbridge Tenant Council faxed NYC HA
- Chairperson Sally Hernandez-Pinero to say that a few hours earlier
- that the New York City Housing Authority Police had arrested someone
- who had been shooting from a window of 40-09 Vernon Boulevard.
- Hernandez-Pinero was asked:
- "How come we never hear of these people who shoot from the roof
- tops, the windows and the street corners getting evicted?
- Please see attached FRONT COVER story from one of the weekly
- newspapers regarding Queensbridge Houses. FIVE people were shot here
- in November!!!! The story highlights our latest homicide.
- As you may know, we average one homicide every three months here
- at Queensbridge Houses. Don't you think that this is a little
- excessive?"
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- NYC HA Chairperson Sally Hernandez-Pinero never responded and the
- next week Patrick Daly was killed in another dangerous project.
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- Is NYC HA Chairperson Sally Hernandez-Pinero just looking the other
- way, or is she really ignorant of problems? One has to wonder about
- her capabilities.
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- The National Hispanic Housing Council, while brandishing a charge of
- racism against HUD, was recommending that Hernandez-Pinero replace
- Kemp as HUD Secretary. Hernandez-Pinero was informed that the NYC HA
- is sending out racial questionnaires which are in violation of the
- Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law,
- the Sixteenth Amendment's guarantees of right to vote regardless of
- race and a 1967 US Supreme Court decision.
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- Hernandez-Pinero was told regarding shootings and the racial
- questionnaires;
- "Should you feel that things should stay the way they are,
- it is not necessary to respond ..."
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- And so it came to pass -there was no response from Chairperson
- Hernandez-Pinero.
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