{"id":1239,"date":"2006-06-30T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T17:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/gerritsen_is_the_new_howard.html"},"modified":"2006-06-30T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T17:36:12","slug":"gerritsen_is_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/gerritsen_is_th.html","title":{"rendered":"Gerritsen Is The New Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/teens_in_bias_bash_atrocity_in_bklyn_regionalnews_joe_mcgurk_and_ed_robinson.htm\">Three Brooklyn teens have taken the title of &#8220;Most Racist Beach&#8221; away from Queens<\/a>, making decent people forget about Howard Beach for the time being:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Three white Brooklyn teens were charged yesterday with committing a hate crime after they pummeled three black kids riding their bicycles on a Gerritsen Beach street and incited onlookers to join in the attack , police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victims &#8212; Joseph Pascall and Deon Davis, both 17, and Aaron Adams, 16 &#8212; said they cycled into the neighborhood because they were lost, a police source said.<\/p>\n<p>The thugs allegedly cornered the victims with their car near Florence Avenue and Celest Court on Monday at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>They taunted the teens with racial slurs before knocking them off their bikes with the car, and pinched and kicked them when they tried to get away, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops said an unknown number of people in the neighborhood saw the incident and joined in the taunting and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Cerciello, Christopher Rapuzzi and Joseph DeSimone, all 17, were charged yesterday with assault as a hate crime, gang assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment, menacing and unlawful imprisonment, police said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Brooklyn teens have taken the title of &#8220;Most Racist Beach&#8221; away from Queens, making decent people forget about Howard Beach for the time being: Three white Brooklyn teens were charged yesterday with committing a hate crime after they pummeled three black kids riding their bicycles on a Gerritsen Beach street and incited onlookers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-just_horrible","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}