Here’s what you need to know:
- Hasidic school with 60 children is closed for violating virus ban.
- Woman arrested in subway over face mask says police were “all in the wrong.”
- Black, Latino, immigrant, poor: Virus deaths for each ZIP code tell a stark story.
- Are you a health care worker in the New York area? Tell us what you’re seeing.
Hasidic school with 60 children is closed for violating virus ban.
The buses arrived early Monday to drop off dozens of children at a Hasidic school in Brooklyn.
Neighbors watched with alarm as the children, few of them wearing masks, filed into the building, crowded into classrooms and played on the roof at recess in violation of public health orders that have kept schools across the state closed since March.
The police brought the school day to an abrupt end around noon, after a neighbor called 311, officials said. Officers found about 60 children at the school and sent them all home, the police said.
No summonses were issued, a decision that Mayor Bill de Blasio found himself having to defend because most summonses the police have issued for social-distancing violations have been given to black or Hispanic people, leading to accusations of unequal enforcement.
Mr. de Blasio told PIX11 News on Tuesday that the decision was in line with the new policy he announced last week in which the police would focus on breaking up large gatherings rather than issuing summonses.
“Summonses are there for anyone who resists,” Mr. de Blasio said. “So in this case, as I understand it, they immediately dispersed.”
But the police commissioner, Dermot F. Shea, said that the police would have been acting appropriately if they had issued summonses.
“If the local commander had issued a summons yesterday,” Mr. Shea said on NY1 Tuesday morning, “I think that would have been appropriate.”
The dispersal of students from the yeshiva was the latest of several episodes that have ignited tensions between the authorities and Hasidic Jews since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Though the virus has killed Hasidic Jews at a rate that public health data suggests may exceed the rates for other ethnic or religious groups, social-distancing rules have repeatedly been broken in areas where Hasidim dominate, especially at activities like weddings, funerals or religious education.
Friction between the community and the authorities boiled over last month after 2,500 mourners packed the streets in Brooklyn for a funeral that drew a sharp rebuke from Mr. de Blasio, who vowed to enforce social-distancing rules more vigorously.
Woman arrested in subway over face mask says police were “all in the wrong.”
A Brooklyn woman arrested last week in a physical altercation with the police over how she was wearing a face mask in the subway said she had been targeted because of her race.
The May 13 confrontation between the woman, Kaleemah Rozier, who is black, and about a half-dozen officers at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station in Brooklyn, was captured in a video that was shared widely.
Critics of the police said the footage showed the officers using excessive force. The police said the officers acted appropriately after Ms. Rozier refused repeated requests to cover her nose and mouth, and then hit one who was taking her from the station.
Mayor de Blasio said Ms. Rozier should not have been arrested, and Police Commissioner Shea called what the video shows “horrendous.” Two days after the incident, the mayor said the police would stop enforcing a requirement that face coverings be worn because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In the video, Ms. Rozier, 22, is seen arguing with officers as they lead her and her 5-year-old son, Camren, up the stairs. As the dispute escalates, several officers grab her and pin her to the floor while another holds onto the boy. She is eventually taken from the station. It is unclear what happens before or after the video’s roughly two-minute duration.
“I felt like they should have had some type of consideration because I had my child with me,” she said. “But they didn’t care.”
Ms. Rozier said that when the police encountered her, she had lowered her mask to breathe more easily while she climbed the subway steps and talked on the phone. She said she had done the same thing on other recent days without the police objecting.
The officers who arrested her, Ms. Rozier said, “were all in the wrong.”
Despite condemning the incident at a City Council hearing last week, Mr. Shea said the officers had acted professionally after Ms. Rozier launched into a vulgar tirade and threatened to cough on them while being led from the station.
Ms. Rozier, who received a desk-appearance ticket for resisting arrest and is scheduled to go to court in September, declined to comment on the allegations. Her lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, said the Brooklyn district attorney’s office should drop the case.
A spokesman for Eric Gonzalez, the district attorney, said Ms. Rozier’s case had not yet been reviewed. Mr. Gonzalez has previously said he would not prosecute arrests for social-distancing violations and other low-level offenses during the pandemic.
Black, Latino, immigrant, poor: Virus deaths for each ZIP code tell a stark story.
The Brooklyn ZIP code that includes the vast Starrett City subsidized-housing complex has the highest rate of coronavirus-related deaths in New York City, according to official data released on Monday.
The data, which shows death rates in each city ZIP code, underscores the deep disparities already unearthed by the outbreak. While the majority of the deaths across the city have been older residents, race and income have proven to be the largest factors in determining who lives and who dies.
Neighborhoods with high concentrations of black and Latino people, as well as low-income residents, suffered the highest death rates: Of the 10 ZIP codes with the highest death rates, eight have populations that are predominantly black or Hispanic. Three have populations that are mostly foreign-born.
Some wealthier areas — primarily in Manhattan — saw almost no deaths.
The 11239 ZIP code, which is nearly 80 percent black and Hispanic, is also home to the highest percentage of people over 65 in the city, the data shows. Seventy-six people, from a population of about 12,400, have died of the virus, or about one in every 165 residents.
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Reporting was contributed by Lindsey Rogers Cook, Michael Gold, Andy Newman, Azi Paybarah, Ashley Southall, Liam Stack, Nate Schweber and Michael Schwirtz.
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