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-Lurid Crime Tales-
A BLM activist involved in NYC pro-Palestine protests has been arrested for ramming a car into an NYPD officer on Jan. 17
2024-01-20
[TWITTER]

The NY Post adds:
The driver who struck a policeman at a Manhattan scene of the crime told authorities it was intentional, adding, "F—k these cops, it’s a lesson to him,’’ sources said Friday — with the mow-down caught on shocking video.

Sahara Dula — a 24-year-old Brooklynite whose lawyer said mentors kids to stay off drugs — was driving her black Lexus the wrong way on the Upper East Side while high on marijuana Wednesday when she barreled into the NYPD officer, officials and sources said.
Images in the tweet and a photo at the article link show both the policeman and Ms Dula appear to be Black, so at least the druggie wasn’t being racist as well.
“I told the cop I wanted to go straight, and he wouldn’t move, so I hit him. I did it on purpose,’’ Dula later told Sherlocks, according to court papers.

"F—k these cops! He wouldn’t move!’’ she screamed a few minutes after the incident, the documents claim —with a source saying Dula added, "F—k these cops, it’s a lesson to him, and hopefully he doesn’t want to be a cop anymore."

Footage posted on X late Thursday shows Dula, a college criminal justice graduate
...an interesting way to spend four years, under the circumstances...
and former doorman, driving her vehicle the wrong way on Park Avenue near East 71st Street around 4:30 p.m.

At the time, officers were in the area investigating an unrelated robbery at a nearby high-end clothing store and had closed off part of the road.

Marijuana and rolling papers were found in her vehicle, according to Shephard.

Shephard — who called Dula’s alleged actions "egregious" — asked that she be held on $100,000 bail, but Judge John Zhuo Wang set bail at $25,000. The suspect did not immediately make bail.

Dula’s only prior arrest in the Big Apple was in March 2022 for criminal mischief stemming from an incident near Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal Mall in which she destroyed property with a metal barrier, cops and police sources said. The charges were eventually dropped in the case, which was sealed.

Dula also has prior arrests in New Hampshire, Shepherd said. In 2020, she allegedly failed to stop at an intersection in the town of Henniker and struck another vehicle before she expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but was quickly located, according to a report in The Granite Quill. She was also arrested on a simple assault charge after an incident at Concord Hospital in New Hampshire’s capital city, Patch reported at the time.

In court, Dula’s lawyer, Patricia Wright, argued to the judge that her client "wants to express to you that she’s trying to move on from her ties from New Hampshire."

Dula suffers from bipolar disorder, takes multiple medications and receives mental health treatment, Wright said.
There it is — I’d wondered.
The Brooklyn resident — who supports her family, including her mother — runs her own company where she mentors kids on Saturdays through music and helps them stay off the streets, and away from drugs and gangs, according to Wright.
Another interesting choice. What advice can she give, given her own lifestyle?
Dula lives alone in a Prospect Lefferts Gardens apartment building, after her grandmother and father both died in the past year, according to the building super, who did not want to be identified.
How much of a family is there for her to support, if she lives alone, and Granny and Pops are no longer among the living.
The super described Dula and unfriendly and gruff, adding that she "smokes a lot of weed."

"She’s like a rude person," he said."Not smiling for nobody. All the time she’s like that. She was even like that with her grandmother and father."
Posted by:Fred

#4  That scrunt was BLM? Explains the uh, "punishment". A little early for riot season.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2024-01-20 08:23  

#3  Can you guess what her company's primary product is?

I'm pretty sure it's not mentoring kids avoid drugs - more likely mentoring kids to sell drugs....
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas   2024-01-20 08:22  

#2  mentors kids to stay off drugs — was driving her black Lexus the wrong way on the Upper East Side while high on marijuana
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-20 07:15  

#1  and former doorman
she mentors kids on Saturdays

Bouncer runs a weekend day care?
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-01-20 07:05  

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