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McCarren Park Pool mishap of the day: NYPD cops use pepper spray to subdue brawling bathers
NY Daily News ^ | 7/17/12 | CHRISTINA BOYLE AND HELEN KENNEDY

Posted on 07/18/2012 5:52:33 PM PDT by jimbo123

Cops had to use pepper spray to subdue brawling bathers as yet another fight shut down Williamsburg’s star-crossed McCarren Park Pool on Tuesday.

A YouTube video of the incident shows a chaotic melee, with shouting, swearing youths surging and pushing towards a cluster of cops who have a suspect on the ground.

One officer can be seen dispersing the increasingly aggressive crowd with pepper spray, sending people running and then shaking the can as if to ready another shot of spray.

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It was the fourth incident at the gleaming 37,950-foot WPA-era pool, which reopened June 28 sporting a $50 million face-lift after being closed for three decades.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; chimpout; nyc; nypd

1 posted on 07/18/2012 5:52:43 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

can’t seem to get the video to play...but then again, I think I know what I’ll see..


2 posted on 07/18/2012 5:56:12 PM PDT by cherry (/)
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To: jimbo123

Williamsburg’s water park....anyone wonder why it was closed 30 years ago?.....ask me again in 30 more years


3 posted on 07/18/2012 5:57:48 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: jimbo123
why does something about "this is why we can't have nice things" come to mind??
4 posted on 07/18/2012 5:58:41 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: jimbo123

“Then there was poop-gate on July 9, when the pool was briefly closed for mystery fecal reasons”

Ugh.


5 posted on 07/18/2012 5:59:27 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: jimbo123

Move along nothing to see here just Black yutes doing what comes natural,you can take the boy out of the jungle but you cant take the jungle out of the boy.


6 posted on 07/18/2012 6:09:16 PM PDT by bikerman (Obama lied,economy died.)
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To: jimbo123
My favorite comment from the newspaper site:

Wish I had time to go to a pool. But I'm working to pay taxes for this and the bank bailout.

7 posted on 07/18/2012 6:14:44 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: dynachrome
A few seasons ago, a muni pool in MA had a DB in it for a couple of days.

I'm still trying to fathom how they could let the water get dirty enough for no one to notice, let alone the end-of-day sweep the life guards are probably supposed to do.

OTOH, it's a muni pool in MA. Union hacks related to somebody.

8 posted on 07/18/2012 7:13:21 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: cherry

I think you’re right.


9 posted on 07/18/2012 7:29:44 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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