Prospect Place just off of Vanderbilt - What is going on????

There are like 10 police cars outside and cops in full tactical gear. I think someone barricaded themselves in one of the apartments in the building to the left of the Haitian church.

MOD NOTE: Merged identical threads -j

Is there a hostage situation?

5:30 this afternoon. Huge police presence. That really big Emergency Servcices truck, several smaller ones, 10, maybe 15 marked squad cars, unmarked cars, ambulance, fire chief. Some cops in flack jackets and helmets but none of them seem to be overly on edge. Whole block is closed off to traffic but people can still walk on one side. Asked a few people standing around but nobody seems to know anything.

Just walked by too. There's a hostage negotiation truck out there still and various cops as Dr F described but they looked kind of relaxed, to be honest. Maybe it's blown over?

From Gothamist crime map:

Barricaded EDP | 293 Prospect Pl X Underhill Ave Brooklyn, NY | 10/16/2009 4:44 p.m.

yea. what IS going home. was hoping to log in to a thread with juicy details, but seems no one knows a thing. i dont have a TV either:( can't see anything on ny1 site

i was wondering what was going on with the blocked block. so a crazy guy. hmm do they really need that many vechiles for a EDP.

whats EDP....?

ProspectPlaceGirl wrote: whats EDP....?

emotionally disturb person aka crazy person what guys like me aren't being pc call them.

This may be a little inflammatory but I swear when I was walking by around 5:45 PM that there was a couple of guys loading what looked like a Day-Glo body bag into a Police Van in the middle of the street. I doubt that the police would be loading a body bag into a generic van that wasn't from the coroners office but that is what it appeared to be.

UH, did you contact the cops?

armchair_warrior wrote: i was wondering what was going on with the blocked block. so a crazy guy. hmm do they really need that many vechiles for a EDP.

It seems like it's always a large response for a barricade...a few months back when somebody was barricaded in the slope @ like 7th & Lincoln I think I counted about a dozen vehicles. In other instances I've seen them do some astounding things, like take a gas-powered saw and saw off all the street signs at sidewalk level so they could stick an inflatable bag under the window to be in place to catch a possible jumper.

squindar wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]i was wondering what was going on with the blocked block. so a crazy guy. hmm do they really need that many vechiles for a EDP.

It seems like it's always a large response for a barricade...a few months back when somebody was barricaded in the slope @ like 7th & Lincoln I think I counted about a dozen vehicles. In other instances I've seen them do some astounding things, like take a gas-powered saw and saw off all the street signs at sidewalk level so they could stick an inflatable bag under the window to be in place to catch a possible jumper.

be much cheaper for them to hit the ground. we live in a finite resource world and we got too many damn humans here already.


<callous and social Darwinist.

cop told me it was an emotionally disburbed woman who didn"t want to come out of her apt

that was it???? it was just her??? they should have just let her stay in there then! if she wasn't hurting anyone or herself, then let the lady stay! sheesh!

if i had to guess, i'd say there was a weapon of some kind involved, and threats were made to herself or others.. but, I agree, shutting down the entire block with about 15 massive police trucks seems like a bit much.. when i mentioned that to the cop, he just shrugged.

I walked by last night on my way to Met Foods. Some people on the street corner said it was a lady who regularly loses the plot.

Of course, it's all hearsay, but they told me they heard that she had threatened to throw boiling water on the cops if they tried to break in.

Their take was that this woman is a little crazy and, if the cops had just left her to her own devices, she would have calmed down eventually, as she usually does. A half dozen trucks, cops in flak jackets and helmets, is unlikely to calm the situation down.

When we first saw the street we thought there was a hostage situation.

To everyone commenting on the seeming overkill of having dozens of vehicles and cops when a situation like this arises - the cops arent' psychic.

So yeah, it seems like a bit much, but if an EDP, even a little old woman who loses her shit on a regular basis, up and kills someone, or throws a tv out of her window that lands on a kid, or turns all the gas on in her apt for hours and lights a match, or breaks out daddy's WW2 carbine...well you get the picture.

So your options are - contain the immediate area so as to eliminate even the slightest risk of injury to passerbys and officers or send in an armored swat team to take down the crazy as quickly as possible.

If the latter, then don't come crying to the press or the city that the EDP got hurt or killed in the skirmish.