Teens Arrested For Queens Park Beatings and Murder

The police say two teenagers have confessed to robbing, beating, and even killing various parkgoers late November. Belter Yovanni Gubara Rivera and Marco Polanco were arrested; 17 year old Rivera was charged with four counts of robbery and the murder of Ecuadoran immigrant Carloes Flores while 17 year old Polanco was charged with four counts of robbery and attempted murder.

Rivera, who was known as "Nyquil," since one punch from him could put someone out, was recently kicked out of a relative's home and had told the police he robbed people for money for food. Rivera ended up using a machete to kill Flores and dumped his body into Meadow Lake on December 4. The police say Flores, who was only carrying $20, ID and a Metrocard, was the only person to fight back.

The other startling brutal attack Rivera and Polanco made was on Jae Woo Park, a 36 year old engineering student working on his dissertation. Park was beaten into a coma on Christmas Day, and with his wife and child on vacation in South Korea, he was only recently identified. Rivera's face suffered burns when he set Park's car on fire, and the burned out car was a break in the case when the police traced it back to Park and found friends looking for him. Park is still in a coma.

Rivera and Polanco would target men who were walking alone. The NY Times reports, "After spotting a mark, they would follow him for awhile, creep up from behind, then try to knock him out." Additionally, nineteen year old Herman Gonzalez was charged with robbery and assault when the three beat and robbed a Chinese food delivery man on November 20.

You can read Queens DA Richard Brown's press release about the charges (PDF)- four crimes are described, but about 10 people were attacked during the time period. The police responded to news of the attacks by increasing park security (including putting Sky Watch, the mobile NYPD tower, up). Police Commissioner Kelly said, "Our detectives did an outstanding job. They had just the right prescription to capture 'Nyquil' and to return a sense of security to Flushing Meadow Park."

Photograph of Unisphere at Flushing Meadow Park from Triborough on Flickr

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Not to make light of a sad situation but "Nyquil" is pretty f@#%ing funny. You can almost hear Jack McCoy. . .

It's amazing that this city can produce people like Wesley Autrey and scum like this at the same time. It seems to bring out the best and worst in people. When you think that Park will probably never be the same, it's just sickening. Assuming he even comes out of his coma, he's suffered enough brain damage that he'll never get that promising career he was headed toward. And his poor wife and kid ... simply tragic.

I don't care what anybody else says, it does not "take all kinds" to make the world. Some other cities, some other countries don't create animals like this.

I told you these hispanics are criminals. Not blacks!

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Glad they got these guys and I hope he recovers.

"Nyquil" might have himself a nice little (needle-induced) deep sleep.

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kill these spics. if whites did this to a hispanic man it'd be called racism. i've been personally following this incident and at least 70% of the victims are asians. kill the spics.

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#3, and #5: medically speaking, usually a guy in a coma for more than 2 weeks often dies. i've seen this before.

"kill these spics. if whites did this to a hispanic man it'd be called racism. i've been personally following this incident and at least 70% of the victims are asians. kill the spics."

Yes. And kill the blacks and the wasps and the chinks and OH...let's not forget the jews. Kill the camel-jockeys and kill the injuns.

Kill Kill Kill until it's only YOU left, then fcuk you and drop dead too!.

Fcuking MORON.

"i've been personally following this incident and..."

I've been personally following you and I think you're an idiot.

Not chink, Gook.
or yellow cur as jim breslin said once.
get your stereotypes right.

best fry the punks, or any criminals who murder people for money. i understand when you take peoples money. but you murder them is just wrong.

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"Yes. And kill the blacks and the wasps and the chinks and OH...let's not forget the jews. Kill the camel-jockeys and kill the injuns.

Kill Kill Kill until it's only YOU left, then fcuk you and drop dead too!.

Fcuking MORON."

hey, Fcuking MORON. you deserve the nobel prize of the moron award for assuming everything written above. since when being defensively racist became the same as racist? one thing that blacks didn't do when whites were calling them names was to call the racist whites back with the names. when you smell racism the best is to fight back with racism. or else the victims always stay victims.

"then fcuk you and drop dead too!"

ooh. i love curses. i love turning them around and putting them in you're unconscious, now. think you have about...

;)

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"I've been personally following you and I think you're an idiot."

hahahaha. funny, you have the same ip address as Ben Dover. could that be a wishful thinking? how was you're suicidal weak-end?

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*sigh* so you think that i called EVERY hispanic person spic? ugh... where are you people from? read the actual sentence before you write back with your incredible stupidity. and learn how to write while you're at it too. whoever commits a hate crime first deserves to be called with racial slurs.

ps if you still haven't gotten it, please go back to high school, and read those books you were told to read--you may start with voltaire. psst, psst, i was calling the criminals spics, for their obvious hatred towards asians. if a group of asian men beat up 8 hispanic men out of 12 people, which includes a white woman(hahahaha), would you call that racism? and usually racists go for the face.

study what really is racism. america has the most lopsided definition of racism in the history of humanity. and people get upset for some stupid words, even when used in the right context(calling racists with racist names). "oh no, he said the 's' word and 'kill' in front of it. that's it. he's going down." and you obviously forgot to whom i was pointing my finger at.

and if all this goes above your head or in your asshole... you should really learn to listen.

that's right. double that feeling. hahahaha

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Ben Dover/Desk Sgt.

i hope the message went in you're really stupid idiot dumbass fucking asshole, or in you're stupid idiot dickhead, or may be in you're incredibly fucked-up tin can you call Brian. that's right. double it. double it again. don't read it over and over again.

haha. sorry. just having fun. no, no. i really don't think you really are a stupid fucking idiot. really indeed.

Hey JC, I have just read everything here and I also thought in your first comment you sounded like you wanted to kill all Latinos. I understand from reading everything that you only meant to say that to the thugs. You have to understand that a typical Latino/Latina, such as myself, will get offended by looking at such phrases. I am sorry that there are very unfortunate individuals in my race, but evil people exist in every race. I cannot justify what has happened, but sometimes you just have to forgive. I am pretty sure you can even find Asian criminals who do the exact opposite as what has happened in the park. Would you feel the same way towards them and call them the C-word? If you do, then I have nothing more to say. But if you do not give them the same treatment, please check your understanding first.

Thank you for reading.

--A Concerned reader

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asians shouldn't hang out in a spanish neighborhood. 'nuff said.

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also, hate crime is only when a bunch of crackers is beating up a black man...check it.

"Nyquil", huh? Because of the punk's "ability" to knock someone out with one punch *from behind*? Meanwhile, he's got two or three other friends lurking in case he accidentally takes a mis-swipe at a Golden Gloves flyweight. What a bunch of faggots. Hell, my grandmother could put someone's lights out if the target didn't get to see it coming. I throw in with Brightliner and comment #2.

they lurked in flushing meadows
and armed themselves with sticks
who would guess it? ...look!
they're just 2 typical spics

these spics are real rascists
who victimized the chinks
(whose food I kinda like
altho it also kinda stinks)

let's kill the rascist a-holes
so that all can be like me
the biggest a-hole of them all
.....yours truly ol' JC


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meet Ben.

above is a seemingly self-righteous poem written by some dude living in nyc who can't spell ASSHOLE but can write SPIC and CHINK. under the surface however is a person sees the world only in black and white and there're no compromises in his head. like, if a person kills an assailant out of self-defense, he'll put you behind bars for life just b/c YOU KILLED SOMEONE. do i smell a teenager? or someone who's been watching too much tv?

Ben, i really wouldn't want to be inside your head. you need some professional help. get some therapy, preferably for the rest of your life, if you haven't already. i hear that doing puzzles help the brain, especially in the logic area. you seem to need more logic in your life. you should pick up a copy of a crossword puzzle book or sudok... wait wait wait, you wouldn't do any CHINK shit--since people who are asians are all chinese... i guess all hispanics are MEXICANS according to you? that's right. double that feeling. double it again. b/c the more you deny the fact that you don't understand what i'm not writing what you don't see now, the more you will not find yourself not doing weird things that does not make you feel bad, which, in turn, will somehow turn you up, and inside out, and in you're unconscious now will make sure that you do not do the things that you will not regret... for the rest of your life.

there's my therapy for ya. don't read it again and again.


...i told you don't. no more. know a lot more.

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http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20070107-064030-4752r.htm

taken from the source:
"Polanco and Rivera reportedly confessed to beating, stomping on and kicking Park."

Ben Dover, I have an idea. let me put you in a coma the exact way above and then ask you if you understand where i'm coming from. some people just need a beating to see a new point of view. y'know. not the innocent ones. but the ones that try to protect the guilty the weirdest way possible... i.e. the ASSHOLE.

wouldn't you love 3 chinks beating you up, stomping on you repeatedly and kicking you repeatedly and calling you names repeatedly until you've gone seemingly dead? according to you, you'd love it.

JC...IS THIS THE PIECE OF SHIT TYOUWERE BABBLING ON AND ON ABOUT???' B/DOVER????

B DOVER...YOU NEW YORICAN PIECE OF SHIT FROM QUEENS... YOUE PEOPLE MAKE US ALL LOOK BAD.NOT ALL.BUT MANY NEW YORICANS ARE SO RUDE.AND ONE OF THE ARRESTED KID LOOKS LIKE HE IS FROM DR. THEY WERE PROBABLY ALL BORN IN AMERICA TOO... AS A LATINO MAN ORIGINALLY FROM VENEZUELA I AM DEEPLY ASSHAMED FOR EVERYTHING THAT HAPPEND. AND ESPECIALLY BY THIS PRICK B DOVER. YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT JC SO STOP TRYING TO MAKE HIM OUT TO BE A RASCIST. HE IS MY BOY. HE IS NOT A RACIST BUT YOU ARE RUDEFOR THINKING HE IS WHEN HE IS JUST TRYNG TO SPEAK FOR THE POOR MAN IN A COMA.PEOPLE BACK IN PUERTO RICO ARE MUCH BETTER THAN YOU. THEY RESPECT EACH OTHER.ALSO THERE ARE SO MANY DOMINICANS IN NYC AND THEY SHOULD LEARN TO RESPECT EVERYONE ELSE.WHEN I WAS IN HAITI I REMEMBER A HOUSE BURNED DOWN AND EVERYONE DIED IN IT EXCEPT FOR A LITTLE BABY...A GROUP OF MEN FROM DR TRIED TO BURN A WHOLE VILLAage down in haiti;. when i see things like that it makews me sad. i like moST MEXICANS AND I LIKE THEM MORE THAN EVERYONE ELSE IN NEW YORK...THEY ALL WORK VERY HARD AND MAKE LITTLE TROUBLE AS PROSSIBLE. SOMETIMES I WISH I WAS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH SOME OF YOU AND I WISH MO RE POEPLE WILL KNOW HOW WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT.

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aw, drat. uhm... this is embarrassing. i'm really done with this. sorry about my friend. i'm outta here.

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