Let freedom ring\u2026 in your ears.<\/p>\n
A bozo blasted illegal fireworks into a crowd of Fourth of July revelers in a Greenpoint park, leaving one woman with a perforated eardrum and her hair set aflame, she fearfully told The Post.<\/p>\n
Dozens of other terrified onlookers in Newtown Barge Park scattered as the wayward fireworks whizzed into the crowd, directly hitting several revelers and sending parents running to save their screaming children, according to the woman and a video obtained by The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of those came sailing right towards my head \u2026 it detonated like right next to my ear,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Illegal fireworks getting shot off at Newtown Barge Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on Independence Day. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
The woman \u2014 who wished not to be identified out of concern for her safety after being threatened by the rogue pyrotechnician \u2014 said the blast caused her to \u201cgo deaf in that ear for about a minute,\u201d and she still had not fully regained her hearing or sense of balance days later.<\/p>\n
The terrifying pyrotechnics brouhaha unfolded July 4 around 9:40 p.m., as families and other large groups of patriotic celebrants gathered in the park to watch the Macy\u2019s fireworks show.<\/p>\n
But instead of staying content with Macy\u2019s amazing display over the Brooklyn Bridge, one dope in a large group cooking out in the park began to light large \u201ccommercial-grade\u201d fireworks behind the crowd, the woman said.<\/p>\n
The first few fraudulent fireworks shot up into the air, but by the fourth volley some offshoots flew horizontally into the crowd, she said.<\/p>\n
People ducking for cover after a firework went off in Greenpoint. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
One blast, besides rocking the woman\u2019s eardrum, set her hair on fire, she said.<\/p>\n
A father, accompanied by two children, also had a \u201cbig burn\u201d on his shirt from the fireworks, she recalled.<\/p>\n
Afterward, the woman and her partner confronted the unhinged parkgoers \u2014 who not only refused to apologize, but also tried to escort the pair from the park, she alleged.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt very threatening, the way that they were walking us away from the situation,\u201d she said, recalling there was still \u201cvisible chaos\u201d in the park at the time.<\/p>\n
A woman at the park was left with a damaged eardrum and her hair set on fire. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
Three cops approached the group after noticing they were escorting the couple out of the park, but when the woman explained that fireworks had been detonated and hit people in the crowd, a cop allegedly told her he could only send EMS for a medical evaluation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI then clearly felt very unsafe. I was like, you know, here\u2019s the police, they don\u2019t side with me.\u00a0Here\u2019s all these people that are, you know, intimidating us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The couple left the park and were eventually able to file a police report after connecting with 911 dispatchers multiple times \u2014 who sent EMS \u2014 and flagging down other neighborhood cops patrolling the neighborhood, she said.<\/p>\n
People running from a firework shot off at the Greenpoint park. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
The fireworks knucklehead and his friends continued to party untroubled by cops for 45 minutes, leaving them to avoid any sort of justice that night, the woman alleged.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere just was so much dismissal of this situation from the people that did it, from the police \u2026 it just leads to this feeling that we collectively In New York no longer care about safety, including during things like the Macy\u2019s fireworks, which little kids come to see, and there were little kids in the park,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
A police report has been filed for reckless endangerment, but no arrests have been made, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
The incident is still under investigation, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let freedom ring\u2026 in your ears. A bozo blasted illegal fireworks into a crowd of Fourth of July…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5864,22876,36707,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,36708,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-47596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fireworks","10":"tag-greenpoint","11":"tag-head-injuries","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-reckless-endangerment","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114815368283251364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}