A $5,000 reward is being supplied within the case of 4 suspects who dressed up like NYPD officers and stormed a bodega in Brooklyn, forcing folks to the ground in a terrifying ordeal caught on digital camera.
Jarring surveillance footage reveals the suspects present weapons and pressure a minimum of three folks to the bottom inside the shop on Sunday morning in Bedford-Stuyvesant, close to Marcus Garvey Boulevard.
It is unclear if these folks had been workers or prospects. No accidents had been reported.
United Bodegas of America (UBS), which is providing the reward, says the thieves received away with lottery tickets and money. All 4 of them had been sporting NYPD raid jackets, baseball hats and black ski masks.
The union says the most recent incident underscores the necessity for panic buttons in these retailers, and so they plan to reiterate that to the governor.
The push for panic buttons took off after the demise of 15-year-old Junior Guzman, who was stabbed in a brutal gang assault at a Bronx deli in 2018 after being mistaken for a rival gang member.
Since then, advocates have known as for wider utilization of panic buttons to be put in behind the counter. With one click on, a deli employee may attain police instantly. Funding has lengthy been a problem, and advocates say the few milllion {dollars} in state tax breaks allotted to small companies to put money into safety measures is inadequate.
“If we had panic buttons, these fake cops would be behind bars today. Our city’s weak bail reformshave turned bodegas into hunting grounds for violent criminals,” UBA spokesman Fernando Mateo mentioned. “Enough is enough. We demand immediate action to protect the backbone of our neighborhood bodegas.”
Anybody with data is requested to name Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
