BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) – A man was found dead at the Kings County Criminal Courthouse on Friday night, according to police.
A 46-year-old man was discovered unconscious and unresponsive inside the Brooklyn courthouse area around 10:15 p.m., authorities said.
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Emergency Medical Services was called, and the man was pronounced deceased at the scene, officials said.
“This tragic loss represents the twelfth person to die in City custody or shortly after being released and the third person to pass away at a local courthouse this year alone,” a statement from the Legal Aid and Brooklyn Defenders. “The NYPD’s drive to criminalize poverty has led to the avoidable and unnecessary incarceration and death of a man accused of shoplifting food from a grocery store. Instead of receiving the care he urgently needed, he languished and died in a holding cell.”…