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‘Wanted’ poster for two cops who shot Kimani Gray posted to Instagram
By LARRY CELONA and SELIM ALGAR
Last Updated: 6:12 AM, March 18, 2013
Posted: 1:10 AM, March 18, 2013
A mock-up of a “Wanted’’ poster placed on Instagram sickeningly calls for the murders of the two NYPD cops who shot and killed Brooklyn teen Kimani Gray.

The posting on the online photo-sharing Web site features pictures of Sgt. Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova above the caption, “50z want these pigs heads.”

A source said that the “50z” is a gang subset.

Using the handle “safjcrossfit,” the poster encourages the cops’ would-be killers to “empty the clip on umm.”

Worried about the officers’ safety, the NYPD has provided both men with police radios for them to take home, in case they encounter any trouble, sources said.

MESSAGE: Kimani Gray was killed by Officer Jovaniel Cordova (left) and Sgt. Mourad Mourad (right), who said the 16-year-old pointed a gun at them. This “wanted” poster seeks revenge against the two cops.
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MESSAGE: Kimani Gray (above, making an apparent gang sign) was killed by Officer Jovaniel Cordova and Sgt. Mourad Mourad, who said the 16-year-old pointed a gun at them. This “wanted” poster seeks revenge against the two cops.
The department also has beefed up patrols in the two cops’ neighborhoods, sources said.

Police sources said investigators are working to identify the person who designed and put up the image and are tracking its circulation.

Cordova and Mourad have been assigned to desk duty while the shooting is investigated.

Gray was shot seven times — including three times in the back — on the night of March 9 after the plainclothes officers said he pointed a gun at them when they instructed him to freeze during a street stop.

The deadly confrontation sparked days of violent unrest in the East Flatbush neighborhood where it occurred.

Protesters clashed with cops, pelting them with rocks and bottles, and trashed neighborhood stores as they decried Gray’s killing.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has called the killing a justified shooting and said Gray’s .38-caliber pistol was recovered at the scene.

Portrayals of the teen have ranged from promising schoolboy to trouble-making gangbanger.

Gray has been praised as a dedicated student by an administrator at his Manhattan high school.

“We believed in his potential from the day he entered our school,” Principal Matt Willoughby wrote in a letter to parents at the school.

But cops say Gray, known as “Kiki,’’ was a Bloods gang member and had a criminal record that included raps for grand larceny and inciting a riot.

The Brooklyn teen and his friends were out that night to commit a robbery, law-enforcement sources have said.

Online videos and pictures have surfaced in which the teen pronounces his allegiance to the crew by making gang signs with his hands.

Relatives maintain that Gray lived a dual life where he walked the gangster strut with friends but inwardly longed to escape his violence-plagued neighborhood and hoped to become an accountant.

Mourad has seen three civil-rights complaints filed against him during his time on the force, while Cordova has been hit with two complaints.

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By Danielle TcholakianPublished: March 17, 2013
Officers in Kimani Gray shooting had prior stop & frisk lawsuits

Local residents mourn the loss of 16-year-old Gray. (Credit: Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
Protests in East Flatbush last week stemming from the shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray by police officers on March 9, grew steadily calmer as the week wore on, after an explosion of violence on Wednesday night resulted in 45 arrests and one police officer injured.

City Councilman Jumaane Williams, who had come under fire for comments made accusing “outsiders” of inciting unprepared teens to violence, was able to direct a fair number of the protesters on Friday night into a nearby church for a community discussion, though a group did split off to march on to the police precinct, where someone eventually threw a bottle at police before the crowd dispersed.

Reports of a successful Youth Empowerment Seminar on Saturday preceded another night of protests. This time, on-scene reports indicated police vastly outnumbered protesters by a factor of nearly three-to-one.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg last week said he was not going to go out to East Flatbush because he didn’t want to “inflame things” but that he had “reached out to clergy and officials.”

He said he was planning on calling the mother of the deceased boy, but as of Sunday had still not made the call.

The mayor’s office did not respond to inquiries as to when the mayor was planning to call Mrs. Gray.

Conflicting reports of her son’s involvement in gangs have piled up, from Mrs. Gray herself telling WNYC she doesn’t think her son would ever carry a gun, but wasn’t sure, to reports from the NY Post of Facebook photos where Kimani Gray is making gang signs with his hands or videos in which he taunts a “young rival Crip.”

Experts on city gangs dismissed the Facebook and YouTube activity as amateur, and indications that Kimani’s gang involvement would have been extremely low-level; while teachers and neighbors spoke of a young man who “acted tough” but was serious about becoming an accountant and moving his family into a better neighborhood.

The principal at Kimani’s school in Manhattan said they “believed in his potential from the day he entered [the] school.”

“He traveled over an hour each day from East Flatbush… The year and a half we had with Kimani allowed us to get to know his best self,” Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction principal Matt Willoughby said.

Hit hard by loss of brother

Gray’s mother also talked about the effect her eldest son’s death two years ago had on Kimani: the older boy had apparently been a father figure to his younger sibling, and instrumental in keeping him in school and off the streets.

After his death, Kimani started staying out late because, he told her, he had nothing to come home to.

At the same time, the Grays had been displaced from their home and were reportedly living five-to-one-room in her brother’s apartment. They had finally moved into a new home a few days before Gray was shot by police. His mother said when she showed him the keys to the new house, he was so excited he “jumped as high as to the ceiling and said, ‘yes, we’re finally out of here!’”

The officers involved

The cops who shot Gray were identified last week as Sergeant Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova.

According to NY1, one officer was involved in two prior lawsuits for alleged civil rights violations, and the other faced three similar lawsuits.

Some of those cases reportedly involved stop-and-frisk incidents, and city officials reportedly opted to pay settlements in all five cases.

City officials insisted that settlements do not indicate an acknowledgement of any wrong-doing, and that involvement in lawsuits do not necessarily indicate guilt.

A major stop-and-frisk lawsuit against the city commences Monday morning.

Community calls for experience and cultural sensitivity from police

Last week, members of the community suggested that a problem with the police force in the area is that they are often young and inexperienced: NYPD policy frequently places rookie cops in the worst areas of the city.

NYPD officials have previously said that the purpose of the Impact Program is to allow rookies to get important experience quickly.

In the case of the Kimani Gray shooting, Mourad was an 8-year veteran on the force, and Cordova had five years.

But community organizers maintained the point that more training is needed, and specific training, as repeated calls were made for cultural sensitivity by police officers when operating within the community.

Follow Danielle Tcholakian on Twitter @danielleiat

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