Feral savages of unknown race erupt in gunfire at Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, kill a 16 year old girl, wound five others

How can the ordinary citizen respond to such news, except to determine to avoid at all costs any location where there are large numbers of young people of unknown race? But what does one do, if one is unfortunate enough to live among people of unknown race and to belong to that unknown race oneself—like the late Tysha Jones? How can society begin to address the threat posed by this savagery, if out of high-minded principle it refuses even to identify the group from which the savages come?

Here’s the New York Post’s description of the killers:

Yet police began to draw a portrait of the shooters. One was described as a “chubby” 5-foot-9 man in a white T-shirt, and the other was thin in a light-colored tank.

Below is the article. Another piece in today’s Post, which I haven’t found online yet, tells how people in nearby apartments were shot or nearly shot by gunfire coming from the beach.

Scuffle, then a hail of bullets

June 11, 2011

A Brooklyn boardwalk bloodbath that killed a vivacious East Harlem teen and wounded five others was triggered by a skirmish with two suspected gang thugs, cops said yesterday.

“The incident erupts out of young adults getting into a beef on the beach,” said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.

The shots rang out late Thursday afternoon on the Brighton Beach boardwalk, where the sizzling temperatures had brought out large crowds, including thousands of students off for Brooklyn-Queens Day, a citywide school holiday.

Browne said there had been a scuffle in which one youth was hit over the head with a bottle and another was struck with a beach umbrella as hundreds of teens gathered.

As tempers cooled, one of the young men joined three friends—including Tysha Jones, 16, of East Harlem—on a boardwalk railing. Two other pals stood nearby.

Two thugs then strode onto the boardwalk and opened fire. Browne said it was unclear whom they were aiming at.

“It may turn out that the shooters have a gang affiliation,” he said.

Tysha, fatally struck by a bullet under her left arm, and a patron at the Tatiana restaurant, who was hit by a stray shot, were both innocent bystanders, Browne said.

“It’s likely neither of them … was targeted,” he said.

Tysha was declared dead at Coney Island Hospital.

Her dad, Kevin Wilson, 49, was devastated yesterday.

“My baby is not here … because somebody put a gun in their hand and thought they were in the wild, wild West,” he said outside the family home on Lexington Avenue.

Four others hit in the bullet hailstorm remained hospitalized, including one in critical condition at Coney Island Hospital.

Browne said cops had witnesses “in custody,” though no suspects.

Yet police began to draw a portrait of the shooters. One was described as a “chubby” 5-foot-9 man in a white T-shirt, and the other was thin in a light-colored tank.

Five bullet casing from a .380-caliber weapon were recovered.

Cops flooded the mostly empty beach yesterday and set up a “sky watch” tower at Brighton Sixth Street. Rewards were offered for tips.

“I just can’t believe my baby is gone!” Tysha’s mom, Cynthia Jones, told The Post yesterday.

Mayor Bloomberg lashed out yesterday at the staggering damage caused by illegal guns.

“It would be very helpful … if Congress would have some courage to stand up and just enforce the laws that are on the books,” he said.

Here is an earlier story from the Post on the same event:

1 dead, 4 wounded in Brooklyn near Brighton Beach; suspect in custody
Posted: 5:59 PM, June 9, 2011

One person was fatally shot and four people were wounded, one critically, near Brighton Beach this evening as hundreds of youths swarmed the area with schools closed for “Brooklyn-Queens Day.”

“It’s a bad combination of guns, heat, beer and angry young men,” a police source said, pointing to empty malt liquor bottles strewn all over The Boardwalk.

Cops had one suspect in custody, and an FDNY spokesman described the scene as “utter chaos.”

“Just watched some idiot kid let off 8 rounds into a crowded beach,” said @djslicknick on Twitter. “I saw like 4 ambulances. It was a madhouse.”

Two of the victims, a male and female, were taken to Coney Island Hospital. The woman died some time later. The male was not expected to live.

A third, a 23-year-old male, was shot in the elbow and was taken to Lutheran Medical Center.

Witnesses described a wild scene with bullets flying and people running and screaming.

“I saw the kid that got shot in the back, he was running away and got hit. He turned, looked at me and fainted dead away,” said Jorge Mela, a student.

Another saw one of the shooters taken into custody.

“The cops grabbed one who had a helmet on and he was trying to run away to his motorcycle. The cops grabbed him and threw him down and put the cuffs on,” said Kendall, a student who only gave his first name.

WARNING: VIDEO BELOW CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE

The 5:20 p.m. shootings at Brighton 6th Street and The Boardwalk didn’t surprise neeighbors who’ve gotten used to trouble on previous Brooklyn-Queens Days.

“These kids come not to swim, they come for turf fights,” said Pat Singer, president of the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association.

“It’s a problem every year. All day long you see are hundreds of teenagers, of course you’re going to have problems,” Singer said.

Cops are investigating and had few details.

But Singer said crowds of teens had swarmed the beaches throughout the steamy afternoon and police sirens could wailed almost constantly.

Tomorrow is the traditional senior cut day and neighbors are bracing for the possibility of more problems as well, sources said.

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James P. writes:

The New York Post says:

Yet police began to draw a portrait of the shooters. One was described as a “chubby” 5-foot-9 man in a white T-shirt, and the other was thin in a light-colored tank.

I love the way they always tell you what the guy was wearing, as if he couldn’t take off a white t-shirt, and would still be wearing it when the story appeared in the paper. On the other hand, they don’t tell us the man’s race—do they think he could change that more easily than changing his shirt?

To be sure, even a more complete description—“black man in a white t-shirt”—would not be all that useful.

June 12

John Dempsey writes:

From the article in the New York Post:

“Mayor Bloomberg lashed out yesterday at the staggering damage caused by illegal guns. It would be very helpful … if Congress would have some courage to stand up and just enforce the laws that are on the books,” he said. “

Of course, as Bloomberg well knows, those illegal guns by themselves, were not capable of causing any staggering damage. The damage that was inflicted required some human person to actually illegally purchase or steal the gun, obtain ammunition for it, load it with that ammunition, chamber at least one round, point it at other human beings with the intent of inflicting severe injury or death, and ultimately pull the trigger, in this case multiple times. He then blames Congress for its failure to “just enforce the laws that are already on the books.” Since when is Congress in the business of enforcing any laws, which in this case would most likely be state laws over which they have no control? It seems that Bloomberg wants to place the responsibility for this on anything and everything but the “thugs” who actually carried out this mayhem. New York state has some of the toughest handgun laws in the country. Just the simple possession of an unregistered handgun is considered a felony which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of three years imprisonment. Gun laws in Manhattan are even tougher.

LA replies:

Good job in exposing the absurdities of Bloomberg’s statement. It’s as if he doesn’t know the simplest basics of the issue. Or he’s pretending not to know.

John Dempsey replies:

He is so anti-gun that it blinds him to the realities of the issue.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 11, 2011 05:49 PM | Send