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The following are extracts from the story. I rearranged them a bit, the story has it all strung out.


The strange outburst of violence in a quiet section of Ridgewood, Queens began when cops arranged a “buy and bust” from the alleged drug dealer at Gates and Seneca Aves., police said.

Rivera [the drug dealer] emerged from the building and saw the pair of detectives, so he swallowed a bag of crack cocaine, police said.

While arresting Rivera under a store awning, the acquaintance emerged from a livery cab, appearing “out of nowhere,” Browne [police spokesman] said.

The man, whose name has not yet been released, asked the handcuffed Rivera what was happening, failing to notice the detectives’ badges, which witnesses said were visible.

Rivera later told cops the dead man seemed to suspect that Rivera was being robbed, and thought he could make some easy money, police sources said.

He then pulled a Walther CP99 compressed air pistol from his waistband and pointed it at the cops, Browne said.

“They're cops, you idiot,” the alleged drug dealer, Nolan Rivera, 33, told his 42-year-old pal just before cops fired ...


Six shots, three hits, one dead career criminal. The dead guy had 39 prior arrests for drugs, weapons, assault, robbery...

Usually there is some family member around wondering why the cops couldn't just shoot him in the pinky because he was starting to turn his life around.

Instead, this time:

“The guy got killed because he had a BB gun," said Abdul Ali, 24, of the Classic Deli and Grocery near the crime scene. "How could (cops) tell it was fake? Especially when it's dark.”

One Ridgewood resident wasn’t perturbed by the shooting.

"That's one less drug dealer in the neighborhood. Good for them," said Ricardo Valentine, 57, who lives next to the crime scene.

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