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🌱 How did a Westbury encounter become Long Island’s sixth police shooting?

Westbury, New York Patch AM: a 4 min read

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  • How did a Westbury encounter become Long Island’s sixth police shooting?

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  • Thursday: Humid with a stray t-storm, with a high of 88 and low of 76 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
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  • Saturday: Humid; a stray p.m. t-storm, with a high of 90 and low of 75 degrees.

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• Westbury shooting is 6th in five years involving Long Island police (newsday.com) — A Nassau County police officer recently shot a Westbury man after an alleged knife attack on the officer’s vehicle, marking the sixth police-involved shooting on Long Island in five years. The piece recaps several other serious encounters in Nassau and Suffolk counties, all still drawing scrutiny from investigators and the state attorney general’s office.
   

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East Meadow

  • Shake Shack Moving Next Door To Burger City Sparks Debate, But Owner Says Its Only Competition Is Itself (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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