Cops protecting tony Park Slope, Brooklyn, tailed a group of black teens in their patrol car and ordered them to “get out of the neighborhood,” a stunned witness claimed.  Sara Bennett said five teens were walking along Ninth St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves. at 2:45 p.m. on Sept. 22 when she saw an NYPD patrol car following the youths with its lights and sirens on.  Then, over the loudspeakers, a cop told the teens to leave the area, Bennett said.  “I was upset by (the) police behavior,” Bennett wrote on her Facebook page Wednesday. “I notified my city council person (Brad Lander) about what I had witnessed. His office told me I should voice my concern at a precinct council meeting, so I did.”  At the meeting, Bennett said she “was really, really upset and disturbed” by what happened.  “Not by the kids, but by the way the police were yelling at them to get out of the neighborhood," Bennett said. "They were just walking down the street."  Commanding Officer Capt. Frank DiGiacomo said his officers have been on the lookout for groups of young people loitering at nearby Atlantic Center Mall who have started fights and robbed businesses.  "When one or two are hanging out, it's never a problem, but when we have large groups of kids together and we don't ask them to move or go somewhere else, they become a larger group, and that's when we get assaults," he said according to DNAinfo, which first reported the story.  Since the spring, rowdy teens have repeatedly used a secluded street corner at the northeast side of mall — Hanson Place at S. Elliott Place in Fort Greene — as a spot for a “Fight Club” of sorts, police said. The bloody bouts have been talked about on Facebook and Twitter.  Cops said one of the throw downs, on April 18, included gunfire, but no one was hit.  The combatants get into beefs then rumble when security kicks them out, police sources said.  Yet the Atlantic Center Mall and the spot where the teens were walking are about a mile and a half apart.  DiGiacomo said he did not know about the specific incident on Ninth St.  In addition to telling the police and Councilman Lander’s office, Bennett also informed school officials inside the John Jay Educational Complex and members of the Police Reform Organizing Project about what she saw.  “I hope this little bit of press attention makes the police change their practice,” she wrote on Facebook.
New York cops demanded a group of black teenagers "get out" of Brooklyn's Park Slope, a witness claimed.