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Demonstrators Rally In The Bronx Against Police Shootings

The protests continued Wednesday, nearly a week after the acquittal of three police detectives in the Sean Bell shooting.

Demonstrators held a rally in the Mount Eden section of the Bronx Wednesday afternoon, calling the verdict a miscarriage of justice.

They chanted the names of a number of other men shot and killed by the NYPD in the past, including Anthony Baez and Timothy Stansbury.

Many say they still cannot understand why Bell was killed.

“Fifty shots is just too much. For real, man. I believe the officers only got a vacation. That’s all they got was a vacation,” said one demonstrator. “Now they’re back on the job.”

“What you see that happened to Sean Bell and his friends, that could be your brother, your cousin, you know, somebody in your family and you know that no one is exempt,” said another. “Somebody that you know could be involved in the next police brutality case.”

“It could be any one of us, you know what I mean, and we’re all here just to show support,” added another. “That could be any one of us.”

More protests are planned including a solidarity march in the Soundview section of the Bronx on Saturday in front of the home of Amadou Diallo. He will shot to death by police in 1999. The officers in that case were also acquitted.

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Police Search For Alleged Bronx Apartment Scam Artist

Police in the Bronx were searching Wednesday for a man accused of targeting apartment hunters in an internet scam.

NYPD detectives said the man pictured in the above sketch posted fake apartment ads on Craigslist.

They said on two occasions, potential renters handed over cash deposits to the man in exchange for keys to apartments in the Mount Hope neighborhood.

The renters soon learned the rooms were already occupied.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.

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Author Abraham Rodriguez delves into Barrio noir in “South by South Bronx”

A mysterious blond appears naked in the bed of an aimless man who has frequent blackouts. She’s got a pair of Manolo Blahniks, a secret and a gun.

This scenario would fit right in with the hardboiled detective novels from the 1950s, the ones starring cynical gumshoes like Mike Hammer or Philip Marlowe.

Instead, it’s the opening to Abraham Rodríguez’s new novel, “South by South Bronx” (Akashic Books, $15.95), which intersects concerns about terrorism, changes in the drug trade and gentrification with Hitchcockian double-crosses and a mountain of cash.

The novel, Rodríguez’s third, takes the Bronx-born writer’s longtime concerns about Puerto Rican identity and street-level realism and meshes them with the structure of a classic pulp fiction narrative.

“It wasn’t a conscious thing, ‘I’m going to do a mystery book,’” says Rodríguez, whose first novel, the gritty and lyrical “Spidertown,” was published in 1994.

“I always wanted to do something with a Puerto Rican cop, and I’m obsessed with the concept of dragging Puerto Ricans into Americana,” he adds over the phone from Northern California, where he began his book tour last week.

Tonight at 7, Rodríguez will be reading at Barnes & Noble in Tribeca, 97 Warren St. — the first of five book presentations in New York (see below).

“South by South Bronx” is divided into two narratives, set off by the use of different typefaces.

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