{"id":5661,"date":"2009-12-06T07:17:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T12:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2009-12-06T07:17:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T12:17:32","slug":"come_see_beautiful_police_brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/12\/come_see_beautiful_police_brutality.html","title":{"rendered":"Come See Beautiful Police Brutality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/one_day_ethics_will_catch_up_to_technology_but_until_then_well_have_all_these_cool_maps_we_can_fool_around_with.html\">NYCGo<\/a> has nothing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/bronx\/2009\/12\/06\/2009-12-06_macabre_attraction_bx_site_where_cops_gunned_down_diallo_lures_hordes_daily.html\">this attraction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>An unlikely tourist attraction has joined the ranks of the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building and Ground Zero &#8211; the spot where Amadou Diallo was shot to death by cops.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of tour buses stop by 1157 Wheeler Ave. every week, disgorging Europeans who excitedly take pictures against a mural dedicated to Diallo&#8217;s memory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amadou Diallo is like the Disneyland of the Bronx,&#8221; said Wilson Varges, a tour guide for See Tourists. &#8220;It&#8217;s so popular no tour would be complete without stopping here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Since last year, the spot where he fell dead has been marked by an 18-foot mural dominated by his piercing brown eyes gazing out over the street.<\/p>\n<p>The painting features four cops with guns drawn and wearing white hoods to the left of Diallo, under a skeleton-faced Statue of Liberty. The words &#8220;American Dream&#8221; tower overhead.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent Saturday, tourists flashed the peace sign or smiled as they posed for pictures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s beautiful,&#8221; gushed Estaben Lacusa, 52, of Barcelona. &#8220;Those KKK cop hoods are quite a sight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to see the place where the cops shot the unarmed Diallo 41 times,&#8221; said Rafeal Peces, 38, of Madrid.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYCGo has nothing on this attraction: An unlikely tourist attraction has joined the ranks of the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building and Ground Zero &#8211; the spot where Amadou Diallo was shot to death by cops. Scores of tour buses stop by 1157 Wheeler Ave. every week, disgorging Europeans who excitedly take pictures against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,24,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town","category-the_bronx","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","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=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}