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🌱 Hypothermic Chickens + Train Fare Dodger Wanted For Murder
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Here are the top stories in Brooklyn today:
1. Train fare dodger arrested for outstanding murder warrant. A 17-year-old was busted for dodging train fear and ended up arrested for wanted murder. The arrest unfolded Friday evening around 6 p.m. without incident at the Grant Avenue subway station in Brooklyn when Xavier Lowe dodged the fare, police said. The teen was observed by subway police monitors as he circumvented pay; they stopped him and ran a records search.
2. This weekend was not a good time to be a chicken in Brooklyn. This week, thousands of chickens awaited their fate as members of the ritual animal slaughter for the Yom Kippur holiday, the Jewish atonement. Stacked outside tin crates by the thousands, the ill-fated chickens died of hypothermia over the course of two days during Kaporos. After being delivered to Hasidic neighborhoods in Williamsburg, Borough Park, Crown Heights and Midwood, hundreds of crates filled with chickens were left outside in the rain, soaking tens of thousands of chickens who were being stored without shelter on public streets.
3. A Brooklyn couple claims they were falsely accused of anti-Semitic remarks, and wrongly beaten for it. Paulo and Clelia Pinho filed a lawsuit during the pandemic that claims that members of the Hasidic Safety Patrol (a group of civilians) beat them up and broke Clelia's arm on account of a misheard remark about not wearing masks during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, members of the Hasidic community had been protesting mask mandates set by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio. The Pinhos received a host of threats before their case was dismissed more than a year later. The case mirrors that of Taj Patterson, who was beaten and partially blinded in a 2013 encounter in Brooklyn with the Shomrim. A judge on Sept. 19 awarded Patterson $4.5 million.
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Today in Brooklyn:
- HALLOWEEN MOVIE NIGHTS, New Heat Studios, Today @ 7 p.m. | Details
- "Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley" by the American Vicarious, Today @ 7:30 p.m. | Details
- Live on Flatbush Ave: Neon Yang, Greenliight Bookstore, Today @ 7 p.m. | Details
From my notebook:
- Celebrate Free Laundry Day in Brooklyn today at 4 select Clean Rite Center locations! "Enjoy children's entertainment, DJs, raffles, complimentary laundry services and cleaning products, interactive literacy activities and educational resources for families provided by the New York Public Library, adult financial literacy education lessons from Qualitas of Life Foundation, and free meal boxes from 11 AM to 3 PM." (Patch)
- Thousands walk in Brooklyn for Breast Cancer: "Experts say one in eight women will battle breast cancer in their lifetime. It has become the most diagnosed cancer in the world [. . .] You can learn more about Making Strides by visiting their website." (WABC-TV)
- Forbes is helping Brooklynites do fall right, with everything to check off your bucket list "before parka weather" sets in. Read more at the link. (Forbes)
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— Carlie Houser
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