Hassan Johnson was getting his head shaved on Monday at the same barber shop Eri...
NEW YORK - Hassan Johnson was getting his head shaved on Monday at the same barber shop Eric Garner used to visit.
“It’s us against the enemy,” Johnson, an actor, said from the barber’s chair, characterizing what he perceived to be the prevailing police attitude. “It’s like a military approach in the community. Things got so out of hand and it was so uneven and disrespectful that something had to happen.” Police relations have long been strained, said Wumi Afruyi, a sales associate from Staten Island who works at a beauty supply store on the street where Garner was killed.“If the cops think we’re out to get them and that we want to retaliate, even if that’s not 100% true, they’re going to be hostile towards us, and we’re going to be hostile towards them. It’s a mess,” Afruyi said.
On July 17, 2014, police entered the area around Tompkinsville Park to crack down on “quality of life” crimes. Neighbors had been avoiding the park, complaining of drug dealing, drug usage and people getting drunk, urinating and passing out on the benches, Police Commissioner James O’Neill said.
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