And I’m like, ‘Something’s going on …’ The helicopters were still hovering at 9 o’clock this morning.

“And I heard all these cop cars and the helicopters. Father Mason said illegal dumping of trash, as shown here, contributes to crime because blight is an assault on human dignity, which fuels despair and, sometimes, a life of violence.

Father Edward Mason stands near the spot where an 18-year-old youth was fatally shot on May 10 in East New York. Martin de Porres Parish in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood on the north side of Brooklyn. “That was literally blocks down from my rectory,” said Father Cox, pastor of St. One cop and the suspect were wounded, but survived a man in the earlier shooting did not.

Police said an officer traded gunfire with a known gang member sought in another shooting moments earlier. It was not until morning that he learned the details. BEDFORD-STUYVESANT - The wail of sirens and the steady grind of helicopters aloft on May 12 clued Father Alonzo Cox that late-night violence had erupted yet again.

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