Apparently more than one threat has come in against more than one precinct.

Police step up security at two Brooklyn stationhouses after reports of being targeted by Baltimore gang

An NYPD spokesman would not confirm the threat or if security was heightened at either station. A police source said that Emergency Service Unit cops were sent to the 79th and 81st precinct stationhouses in Bedford- Stuyvesant and Brownsville after an informant reported the threat, but it had not yet been validated.

BY Steven Trader , Rocco Parascandola , Joseph Stepansky
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS


Published: Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 11:25 PM
Updated: Wednesday, December 24, 2014, 12:37 AM





Ken Murray/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Police have stepped up security at two Brooklyn stationhouses after a report of a threat that they are being targeted by a notorious Baltimore gang, police sources said.

Police have stepped up security at two Brooklyn stationhouses after a report they are being targeted by a notorious Baltimore gang, police sources and the Sergeants Benevolent Association said Tuesday night.


A police source said that Emergency Service Unit cops were sent to the 79th and 81st precinct stationhouses in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville after an informant reported the threat, but it had not yet been validated.


An NYPD spokesman would not confirm the threat or if security was heightened at either station.


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But a Daily News reporter witnessed two ESU trucks parked in front of the 79th precinct and four SWAT members standing in the building’s lobby with rifles in hand.
Important info re credible attack from a CI: Black Guerilla Family to storm the 079/081 Pct Station Houses & shoot it out with MOS.
— SBA (@SBANYPD) December 24, 2014
At the 81st precinct, two SWAT members guarded the lobby along with three officers, with a couple more SWAT officers around the corner.


"My wife, she's actually at home crying right now. It's tough," said one of the SWAT members.


“Important info re credible attack received from a CI(confidential informant): Black Guerilla Family to storm the 079/081 Pct Station Houses & shoot it out with MOS,” a tweet from the sergeants’ union's twitter handle @SBANYPD said. The acronym MOS stands for Member of Service.


“I do believe they’re credible,” Ed Mullins, the president of the SBA, said of the threat. He said that there was also heightened security at the 73rd precinct stationhouse in Brownsville.
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Earlier this month, Mullins had said that 10 members of the Black Guerrilla, a Baltimore-based prison gang, were “preparing to shoot on-duty police officers.”
NYPD officials said there was no credible threat at that time.
On Saturday, Officers Rafael Ramos, 40, and Officers Wenjian Liu, 32, were fatally ambushed by unhinged gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsley as they sat in a patrol car in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Officials said it did not appear Brinsley was connected to any gangs.
An NYPD spokesman would not confirm the threat or if security was heightened at either station.

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The police department has taken extra precautions since the attack, requiring officers to remain in teams while on patrol and during meal time as well as suspending auxiliary patrols.


The union message was the beginning of a series of tweets that urged officers to “carry addl magazines & second weapons. Stay in pairs & be vigilant.”


Another tweet, composed as hundreds of protesters marched against police brutality on Fifth Ave., stated protesters were “currently in Midtown Manhattan and Verbally abusing uniformed officers” and urged cops to wear their vests both on patrol and in the precinct.


“Your only assignment is to go home safe. All SBA attorneys are on call. The SBA Board will support you & utilize all our friends & resources,” a message in the union’s Twitter salvo said.


The NYPD has been vetting at least a dozen copycat threats since Saturday’s brazen attack, police sources said.
JStepansky@nydailynews.com