Brooklyn Neighborhood Is 'A Powder Keg' After Teen Killed By Police

Hostility has been mounting this week in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, after two plainclothes police officers fatally shot 16-year-old Kimani Gray after he allegedly pointed a revolver at them on Saturday night.

On Monday a group of about 130 people were marching toward the 67th Police Precinct station when about two dozen young protesters splintered off — drawing riot police — and trashed a Rite Aid.

Tuesday the crowd was mostly calm, but on Wednesday — the same day Gray’s autopsy showed he had been shot seven times — part of the 200 person crowd became unruly.

The night began with hope that Gray’s mother would speak at a vigil alongside mothers of local shooting victims, but the night turned when about 30 young men showed up in the shadows across the street.

“They were staying in the dark area of the street,” a witness told CNN. “You just knew it was going to turn into the cops trying to contain those kids who were obviously gonna go for it. That just stopped the original intention of the night.”

The witness said the teenagers suddenly took off, fanning through streets and side streets, followed by the sound of glass breaking and metal store-front gates being pulled down. Protesters began throwing bricks and bottles while cops began pepper-spraying and arresting.

By the end an officer’s face and the window of a police van had been hit with bricks, and 46 people had been arrested.

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