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Police arrested 16 year old Francisco Baez for the murder of Taishawn Bellevue. Bellevue was killed during an shocking Wednesday afternoon brawl in the Union Square Greenmarket, where about 50 teens convened with belts, bats, bricks and more. The fight may have been prompted by some students feeling insulted by others, which then led to groups of students from nearby Washington Irving High School and Brooklyn's Science Skills High School to meet.
Baez was picked out of a police line up by two eyewitnesses and confessed to the crime. Baez's mother, though, cried during the arraignment in which he was denied bail: "They're trying to accuse my son of something he didn't do." Baez was also criticized by the judge for "not looking forward at the bench," according to the Post. Baez was charged with second degree murder, gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
The mother of Glenwood Nobles, who was stabbed in the back, told the Post, "I want all these kids to be locked up. That one arrest is not going to help." Nobles, a student at Science Skills, himself told the NY Times yesterday that he and his friends did not expect a fight - and if they did, they "would have brought weapons."
Photograph from the Project for Public Spaces, which called Union Square Park the fifth best public square in the U.S. and Canada
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Next time we should have this 24/7:
100 Cops
Good thing these kids settled their 'beef'. How ridiculous.
Taishawn's myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=87763947
This proves my point again how racist Gothamist is. WHy does Gothamist always show crimes committed by black and hispanics? So very racist.
"I want all these kids to be locked up," said Tanya Strong; Wow, if a white mother said that, it'd be racist. But black chicks can get away with it.
Actually, the only point it seems to prove is that you don't read Gothamist very much.
Stats show blacks do most of the crime.
Hey "Al Sharpton" you're name says it all you phony racist bigot. Get the hell out of here until you face the truth that blacks commit most of the crime in this city and that the only way to fix things is to focus on education. I'm sick of you people always blaming everything on everyone else. It's you who glorifies the thug life then cries when the police dare arrest any of you. Go back to Africa if you don't like it here.
steve, you just got on my list.
There are so many closet racists on gothamist. They may have to close down the comments section as the temperature rises above the boiling point. Fortunately the racists are so stupid. Steve, c'mon, are you too thick to realize "al sharpton" was being sarcastic or putting forth a pathetic ironic twist? I'd say go back to where you came from, but you're probably too stupid to know your own ancestry other than the color of your skin.
This proves my point again how racist Gothamist is. WHy does Gothamist always show crimes committed by black and hispanics? So very racist.
You want to see something really racist? On the various Law & Order shows, more than 80% of the NYC criminals as shown over the year have been white. In real life, fewer than 10% are.
So who's racist?
"Stats show blacks do most of the crime."
Does "Francisco Baez" sound like the name of a black person to you??
Peter, you just got on the list, too.
Our first pillow fight was during an anti-violence rally. It looks like our second one could have been, too!
Why are black people so violent?
Does "Francisco Baez" sound like the name of a black person to you??
Hispanics are also black.
why would anyone complain if blacks and hispanics kill each other off? keep quiet you!
Anyone else think it's a little odd how Germany in the 1930s has become Gothamist message boards in the 2000s and "Jews, homosexuals, and gypsies" has become "Blacks and Hispanics"?
It's a pretty scary world already, do you really need to spread that kind of hate?
Stats show blacks do most of the crime in New York because there are a lot of blacks in New York. If we were in Nebraska, then whites would be doing most of the crime. If were in California, then it's Mexicans living at or below the poverty level. Nationwide, however, 66% of violent crimes are commited by white males, age 24 to 38 with that other 34 percent being shared by a number of other groups.
This next stat is just a guess, but I figure that 100% of ignorant racist assholes misquote statistical data in order to support their bigoted rants on the internet.
Stats show blacks do most of the crime in New York because there are a lot of blacks in New York. If we were in Nebraska, then whites would be doing most of the crime. If were in California, then it's Mexicans living at or below the poverty level. Nationwide, however, 66% of violent crimes are commited by white males, age 24 to 38 with that other 34 percent being shared by a number of other groups.
This next stat is just a guess, but I figure that 100% of ignorant racist assholes misquote statistical data in order to support their bigoted rants on the internet.