Archly Mathieu says the music was the best part of Monday’s Caribbean celebration in Brooklyn. “I applaud the herculean effort of the NYPD, the Borough President’s Office, City Hall and my colleagues in government for deploying 3,000 officers and 200 light towers, along with countless added resources and volunteers, last night to ensure the safety of revelers and local community residents”, said Mosley.
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By the end of the morning, two more people had been shot – Poyau and a man who suffered a gunshot wound to the leg – in two additional incidents.
He said the West Indian American Day Carnival Parade must not be judged by gun violence but by the huge number of people who converge on the Parkway.
J’ouvert, (pronounced Jou-vay), is a large ole’ mas street party held at dawn before the annual West Indian Labor Day carnival each year. Both events were far more rowdy in years past than their current incarnation.
A top police official told “On the Inside” that police involvement next year would likely be even greater and “more hands on”.
A child wearing gorgeous costumes participates in the parade of Caribbean Carnival 2016 in NY, the United States on September 5, 2016.
Mayor Bill de Blasio decried the shootings Monday afternoon, saying the violence was “fundamentally unacceptable”.
Onlookers along the parade route waved the flags of Caribbean nations.
Two people were shot dead and two others wounded early Monday in Brooklyn as the overnight J’Ouvert celebrations were marred by gun violence for yet another year despite a heavy police presence.
Last year, Carey Gabay, 43, a Harvard-educated lawyer who was formerly an aide to the state’s governor, was struck and killed by a stray bullet during pre-parade festivities and another person was fatally stabbed.
Two people were shot dead as violence erupted at a NY carnival just hours before the city’s annual West Indian Day parade. She died at a hospital.
Less than a half hour prior to Poyau being shot, 17-year-old Tyreke Borel was shot and killed in a separate shooting approximately one block away, cops said.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said that Reginald Moise was arrested in the shooting death of 22-year-old Tiarah Poyau.
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The early Monday morning shooting that occurred on September 5th was not part of this event – it happened hours before the West Indian Labor Day carnival parade, which kicked off at 11 a.m.
