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Title: Staffer for NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Shot in Head Before West Indian Day Parade
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... before-west-indian-day-parade/
Published: Sep 7, 2015
Author: Breitbart News
Post Date: 2015-09-07 15:56:07 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 1180
Comments: 24
The West Indian Day Parade, a rollicking, colorful celebration of Caribbean culture, music, style and food, rolled through New York City’s streets Monday but, once again, was marred by predawn violence that left one man dead and an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in critical condition. Cuomo identified his wounded staffer as Carey Gabay, a first deputy general counsel at the Empire State Development Corporation. Gabay was walking with his brother near the Brooklyn parade route at 3:40 a.m. when he was caught in the crossfire between two gangs, according to police officials. A bullet struck Gabay, 43, in the head. Cuomo said Gabay, a Harvard-educated lawyer who had worked as an assistant counsel to the governor, and his wife are expecting their first child. “I’m the governor of the state of New York, and there’s not a thing I can do,” Cuomo told reporters after he visited his staffer’s family at Kings County Hospital. “There’s not a thing I can say, and there’s nothing I can do. And sometimes it just hurts.” No arrests have made been, police said. The shooting was one of several outbursts of violence in the neighborhoods surrounding the parade, which included the stabbing death of a 24-year-old man at 2 a.m. near Grand Army Plaza. Bloodshed before or after the West Indian Day celebration has become a sadly familiar part of the parade routine. Last year, a recent parolee opened fire into a crowd of revelers, killing one man and wounding several others. And in 2013, a 1-year-old boy sitting in his stroller was killed by a bullet meant for his father. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton dismissed talk of scuttling the preparade festivities – which center on a surreal midnight march known as J’Ouvert – and said the New York Police Department was working with local leaders to make the event safer. There was a heavy police presence along the route, and several NYPD helicopters hovered overhead. The parade went on as scheduled and drew hundreds of thousands of people to the stretch along Eastern Parkway. Throbbing basslines pulsated along the route, propelling outlandishly clad revelers to dance and those along the sidelines to bob their heads as they ate indigenous foods. “This is our heritage. It means so much to me to see all these colors and music,” said Alicia Jackson of Brooklyn. “It’s one of my favorite days of the year.” Politicians dotted the route, with de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, who is of Caribbean descent, drawing cheers as they waved flags and periodically dashed to the sidelines to shake hands and pose for selfies. But the parade was also the latest venue for New York’s most high-profile political feud. The march and an official preparade breakfast were the first public events since July in which Cuomo and de Blasio, who are locked in a simmering dispute, were both supposed to attend. But their paths never crossed. Cuomo left the breakfast about 10 minutes before de Blasio arrived, and the two men, both Democrats, marched separately. At the breakfast, Cuomo was asked if he planned to speak to the mayor. The governor responded by asking, “Is he here?” and when told no, Cuomo glared and bluntly said, “There’s your answer.” Hours after the parade, Cuomo and several other elected officials were planning to fly to Puerto Rico to offer advice to the island government grappling with a debt crisis. De Blasio was not invited. 
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#4. To: cranky (#0)
Impossible! It's illegal for gang members or regular non-multimillionaire denizens of NYC to own or possess guns. Must have been a roving pack of off-duty cops or bodyguards.
I bet they had illegal large/extra large soft drinks from 7-11 too!
#9. To: redleghunter, sneakypete (#7)
The West Indian Day parade has had a lot of lawlessness and violence associated with it over the years .The cops are afraid to enforce the law because of the chance of riots. So for the night ,the mob rules the streets . “They’ve always downplayed the violence by saying shootings weren’t parade- related, unless someone was shot on the route, on a float. Then one year, someone was shot off a float,” said the cop, referring to an incident in 2003. Cops routinely confiscate booze from revelers at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, but detectives union chief Michael Palladino said he was ordered not to do the same thing at the West Indian-American Day Parade. “In my 36 years with the department, that’s the only parade where I was told to look the other way,” Palladino said. “The political theme of decriminalization started at that parade decades ago.” A retired NYPD cop said, “No one in their right mind wants to do that detail.” “It’s the worst event of the year, in terms of violence, and it goes on for days,” the ex-cop said. http://nypost.com/2015/09/07/cops-turn-blind-eye-to-blatant-law-breaking-at- west-indian-day-parade/ Cuomo of course latched onto the gun violence angle even though NYC has some of the strictest most unconstitutional gun laws in the country . I'm betting the whole parade route is a no gun zone. Praying for Carey Gabay's recovery . He sounds like a good guy who lifted himself up from a housing project ,overcame many obsticles, and has tried to make a positive impact .
Hey! A guy has a right to get wild and crazy after a hit,right?
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestGabay was walking with his brother near the Brooklyn parade route at 3:40 a.m. when he was caught in the crossfire between two gangs, according to police officials.
#7. To: sneakypete, tomder55 (#4)
It's illegal for gang members or regular non-multimillionaire denizens of NYC to own or possess guns.
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#10. To: redleghunter (#7)
I bet they had illegal large/extra large soft drinks from 7-11 too!
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