Guy attempts suicide-by-cop after testing positive for coronavirus
The New York City Crime Report with Pat Dixon
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🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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## NYCCR -- APRIL 3 -- 28/2020 TALEEB STARKES, BEN MANNES
POLICE ARE QUESTIONING A PERSON OF INTEREST IN THE SUBWAY FIRE THAT KILLED A CONDUCTOR ON THE EXPRESS BRONX-BOUND 2-TRAIN AND INJURED 16 OTHERS. NATHANIAL AVINGER HAS 39 PRIOR ARRESTS....
DEEP IN VAST, MYSTERIOUS SUFFOLK COUNTY, A CAT WAS BEHEADED, THE POLICE HAVE NO LEADS AND IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION RELATED TO THE DECAPITATION OF THIS CAT CALL 1-800 ANU-MBER.
POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF A 62-YR-OLD MAN FOUND SPRAWLED ON THE FLOOR DEAD AT THE LAST STOP OF THE ASTORIA-DITMARS-BOUND N TRAIN AT 4:30am.
AN ACCUSED METH DEALER CAUGHT A BREAK BECAUSE OF THE VIRUS WHEN A SOFT-HEARTED FEDERAL JUDGE LET HIM TAKE HOUSE ARREST TO AVOID THE RESPIRATORY AILMENT. WHEN THE MAN IMMEDIATELY CUT OFF HIS ANKLE BRACELET, HE WAS RETURNED TO COURT AND TOSSED IN JAIL TO AWAIT TRIAL.
DECEASED INTERNATIONAL CHILD SEX-TRAFFICKER TO THE ELITE JEFFREY EPSTEIN BROUGHT NOW-CONVICTED RAPIST, THEN-POWERFUL HOLLYWOOD FILM MOGUL, HARVEY WEINSTEIN AROUND TO IMPRESS THE YOUNG LADIES IN HIS STABLE OF YOUNG HOOKERS, BUT GOT ANNOYED WHEN WEINSTEIN TRIED TO FUCK HIS FAVORITE PIECE OF ASS. TRUE STORY.
A 55-YR-OLD MAN WHO HAD JUST TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE VIRUS WAS SHOT BY POLICE WHEN THE MAN CALLED 911 ON HIMSELF IN AN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY COP.
NEW YORK CITY DOCTORS SAY AN APPRECIABLE NUMBER OF VIRUS-STRICKEN PATIENTS HAVE BEEN COUGHING AT, SPITTING ON, VERBALLY ABUSING STAFF MEMBERS AND TRASHING LOBBIES AS MEDICAL PERSONNEL TRY TO HELP THEM.
VIDEO FOOTAGE OF HOSPITAL STAFF LOADING BODIES INTO AN OUTDOOR REFRIGERATED TRAILER HAS EMERGED.
A JUDGE TOSSED ASSAULT CHARGES AGAINST TWO NAIL SALON WORKERS WHO WHACKED CUSTOMERS WITH BROOMSTICKS WHEN SHIRLEY THOMAS BECAME CONFRONTATIONAL OVER HER DISSATISFACTION WITH A $5 NAILJOB. THE FIGHT HEIGHTENED TENSIONS BETWEEN THE CHINESE AND BLACK COMMUNITY IN FLATBUSH.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, you guys could have gone on, you know, but from the smallest room in New York City |
| 0:07.2 | comes a show that gives you a reason to live. We told you about the subway fire, and now |
| 0:11.3 | I'm going to tell you about the suspect who they are questioning. I'm talking about the police |
| 0:15.6 | and the person of interest. This does not usually have a happy ending. You do want to get yourself together. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, well, his name is Nathaniel Avenger. |
| 0:24.2 | He was identified as such, also being questioned, about a March 11th fire on 125th Street, |
| 0:31.5 | which we think of as the street that the Apollo is on. |
| 0:34.3 | I go there all the time when COVID-19 does not force me indoors. He has 39 prior arrest, |
| 0:41.7 | including a March 19 bust for damaging property and a March 6th arrest for criminal mischief. |
| 0:49.2 | So he's been arrested very recently. And you know what? As I'm joined by my guests here, |
| 0:55.9 | Ben Manus from down in Philadelphia and also from that region, Talib Stark's host of safe space. What's happened |
| 1:00.7 | to fellas? Hey, 39, um, 39 arrests. 39, yeah. Yeah, 39 arrests still on the street. Not bad. |
| 1:08.6 | This bail reform is working out like gangbusters in New York right now. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah, well... |
| 1:12.8 | Bringing the crime back to Harlem. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, well, you know, yeah. |
| 1:15.8 | And this was on the subway, I guess, an express too. |
| 1:20.1 | You know, so they were headed up that way anyhow. |
| 1:22.7 | But I was just trying to show you his picture here. |
| 1:25.6 | He looks as if he's very proud of it, doesn't he |
| 1:27.9 | to leave. Is that a mugshot? I'm not really, if it is, he should use it as on his dating profile. |
| 1:33.8 | Facebook Tinder profile. Yeah, 39. Beat that. Yeah. 39 isn't, when dealing with the subway here, |
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