3 cops hurt, 50 arrested, as anti-police rioters storm East Flatbush
For a third straight day, violent anti-police demonstrators gathered in East Flatbush Wednesday. By Thursday morning, 50 three police officers had been injured — one suffered a gash in the face after he was hit by an object tossed from a building — and 50 arrests reported.
The protests followed the fatal police shooting of a teenager over the weekend.
More than 100 people attended a candlelight vigil Wednesday night for 16-year-old Kimani “Kiki” Gray just blocks from where he was shot to by police Saturday night.
But anger was palpable as a group of young people heckled police officers in helmets and later marched down a street.