\nIt was a beautiful April Night. It was clear and warm. A perfect spring night, possibly the nicest day of the year.\u00a0 On this great night I decided to take on the drug dealers of Washington Square Park. I had been going up against them for some time now.\u00a0 I had been calling and reporting them to the police and even taking it to the level of direct confrontation.\u00a0 I was going up to them and kicking them out of the park.\u00a0 When doing so I would make sure to have at least a small group of people with me and some lights and cameras to deter violence.
\nThis night I was going to make a big statement, not only to the drug dealers, but to my community and the public at large. \u00a0I was going to take the park back from the dealers and let everyone around know the dealign will not be tolerated anymore.\u00a0 This is something I could not do alone, so I got a whole group of real life superheroes together for it.\u00a0 Many real life superheroes traveled in to back me up and help out.
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\nEvery time I go in and do something against the dealers I make sure they are selling.\u00a0 I send in someone undercover to make sure they are dealers and to find out what exactly they are selling.\u00a0 This night we sent someone in and they got them offering to sell them eight balls of coke. \u00a0A pretty big order to be selling outside in a park.\u00a0 We scope out the operation they have out there and we were looking at a twenty plus person operation that night.\u00a0 We know they are dealing and we know who they are.\u00a0 A group of us gather together getting ready to swarm the park, take it back from the dealers, and kick them out.
\nAs we get ready to go in I hear someone say, “hey you we want to talk to you”.\u00a0 Two police officers are walking over to me.\u00a0 I say yes officer, they say they want to speak with me. \u00a0I explain to them that I do not break any laws and they tell me that I am not in any trouble, but the Lieutenant wants to speak to me.\u00a0 They asked that Cameraman and I come down to the precinct. \u00a0I comply with the officers request.\u00a0 We get in their car and drive off to the precinct.\u00a0 We chat with the officers about the dealers and the problem in the park.\u00a0 They explain that that they try hard to get the dealers out.\u00a0 They arrest them constantly and have undercover ops in there.\u00a0 They say they appreciate what I am doing but don’t want to things to get violent out there and do not want me or anyone else to get hurt.\u00a0 They tell us they can’t just go in and pat the dealers down or just tell them to leave.\u00a0 We had a good conversation with the officers.
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\nWe arrived at the precinct. It is the special operations precinct.\u00a0 We walk in and everyone in the precinct knows who we are. \u00a0I get various comments like “look who it is”, “Superhero”, and a female officer says “I thought you were taller”.\u00a0 Cameraman and I sit down in the office and we talked with an officer and the lieutenant.\u00a0 They know who I am, they have seen videos of me, and know what I do. We talk about the park and the dealers.\u00a0 There main concern is for my safety. They explain that they have arrested some of these guys 50-60 times and they are back out there.\u00a0 The one big dealer Carmello who I had been up against was shot in the head before and is still out there.\u00a0 He talked about how many of them carry weapons and guns.\u00a0 We talk for a a bit about things.\u00a0 I explained what I do and why I do it.\u00a0 They respected what I was trying to do, but did not want to see me or anyone else get hurt.\u00a0 They said I can contact them if I had any information.\u00a0 I left them my information and got the lieutenants card.
\nCameraman and I left the precinct and had to take a cab back to meet with the rest of the team.\u00a0 I was a little shaken up after getting picked up by the police and brought in.\u00a0 I was a little hesitant to get back out there.\u00a0 I had all these people out here to get my back and help me out.\u00a0 These dealers were out of control and brazen. \u00a0I knew I had to do it and still take on the dealers.\u00a0 The team gets together and we head out to the park.
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\nWe first get in and confront the dealer. \u00a0We actually have a conversation about the drug problem out there.\u00a0 I get on my bull horn and start calling out over it “NO MORE DRUGS IN THE PARK”, “THIS IS NOT YOUR PARK”. \u00a0We work our way to the center area of where the dealers were selling.\u00a0 They back away from us, some start yelling and cursing at us. One dealers starts yelling at us in Jamaican.\u00a0 We force the dealers out of the park and onto the streets. \u00a0Some leave and walk away, many hang out at the outskirts of the park talking with each other, looking over at us, and threatening us.
\nWe took their spot and were out there with cameras, lights, and a bullhorn.\u00a0 We were messing up their business on a real good night to sell.\u00a0 We probably cost them thousands of dollars that night. \u00a0It got so bad for them that we witnessed their leadership come out.\u00a0 A man came out and started yelling at the dealers who were forced out of the park.\u00a0 He was yelling “What the f**k is going on out here”, “You going to let these people bitch you like this”.\u00a0 He looked over at us yelling threats. We held steady control over our area of the park. A dealer from afar lifts up his shirt flashing a gun at us.\u00a0 We do not move and he walks away. \u00a0We were out there for hours locking down the park and hurting their business.\u00a0 Most the dealers had left the area. We decided after while to leave.\u00a0 We had made a big statement and hurt their business bad that night.\u00a0 We cautiously exited the park as a group.\u00a0 We walked through the city for a while making sure we were not being followed.
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\nA couple of us hung out for a while after.\u00a0 This was one of the craziest nights for me in being a real life superhero.\u00a0 We took a stand against against the dealers and hurt their business bad for the night.\u00a0 We also called attention to the problem in the park. I’m happy to report that those dealers are not in the park anymore.\u00a0 I am thankful to everyone who helped out that night. They had my back, put themselves in danger, risked serious injury, and even death to come out and make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"