[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] The music was blasting as the crowd, which included teenagers from an elite public high school in Brooklyn, spilled into the courtyard. Barely an hour had passed before residents of the development, the First Houses, called the police at about 10 p.m. White paint and a caustic chemical were poured from overhead, burning at least 10 of the teenagers in the courtyard, the police said on Sunday. I didn’t know what was going on.”

Source: New York Times May 06, 2019 00:02 UTC