STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In the days after a 10-year-old girl was seriously injured in a fireworks mishap involving a city parks staffer, the community sounded off about what happened and who should be held responsible.
“[I] witnessed it live. What a tragedy,” wrote one man in response to an Advance/SILive.com post on Instagram. “I hope she recovers quickly but the kid is scarred for life.”
Police responded at about 6:45 p.m. on Aug. 11 to a report of the incident at General Douglas MacArthur Park, located near the Berry Houses, a New York City Housing Authority complex in Dongan Hills…