Saheed Vassell was shot and killed by the NYPD four years ago—and somehow is being used as a symbol of New York’s new governor being soft on crime.
in his Brooklyn neighborhood while he held what 911 callers thought was a gun, but turned out to be a piece of pipe.
“Vote on November 8th like your life depends on it. It just might,” says an ominous female voice after a series of allegedly violent crimes, shootings and, perhaps most jarringly, zoomed-in security footage of Vassell holding the pipe at the 21-second mark. The letter, dated last Thursday, accused Zeldin’s campaign of being aware of the details of Vassell’s death and running the “malicious, knowing, intentional, and dishonest,” spot anyway.
“Today I’m asking Lee Zeldin to take down that racist ad,” said the grieving father in a statement on Monday, adding, “If Lee Zeldin wants to make this about Saheed, he can call for an end to police brutality and support the mental health needs of New Yorkers like my son. Instead, he has chosen to enrich himself and misrepresent the final moments of Saheed’s life.”
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