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NYPD: Brian Dowling, 18, charged with murder in deadly stabbing of NYC activist Ryan Carson
CBS News New York ^ | October 5, 2023 | Elijah Westbrook

Posted on 10/05/2023 11:55:46 AM PDT by grundle

NEW YORK - The NYPD says Brian Dowling, an 18-year-old Brooklyn man, is facing murder charges in the deadly stabbing of New York City activist Ryan Carson.

CBS New York was on the scene when Dowling was taken into custody around 10 a.m. Thursday.

Police questioned the 18-year-old at the 81st Precinct, before he was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

Surveillance video shows person of interest

Carson and his girlfriend were seen on surveillance video around 4 a.m. Monday sitting at a bus stop on Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Police said a man walked by them, with no interaction. Moments later, as the couple started walking, the man kicked over several moped scooters on the sidewalk, then turned to Carson and said, "What are you looking at?"

"Mr. Carson begins to immediately try to de-escalate the situation," NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said in an earlier briefing.

That's when the suspect pulled out a knife and swung at him, police said. Carson is seen tripping and falling to the ground, and the attacker stabs him three times, piercing his heart.

"As Mr. Carson lay dying on the sidewalk, the male with the knife kicks him in the chest, threatens to stab the woman companion and spits in her face," Kenny said.

Investigators said they do not believe the suspect knew Carson or his girlfriend.

Carson remembered as community advocate

Carson was known for his activism against opioid overdoses. Over last decade, he worked at New York Public Interest Research Group, most recently dealing with recycling and solid waste. Previously, Carson advocated for safe injection facilities.

"He was just all over the place, trying to prevent drugs, just trying to keep the community afloat," said Bed-Stuy resident Gloria Reyes, who knew Carson.

Tributes have been pouring in by candlelight and by post. Mayor Eric Adams wrote Carson "turned his passion into purpose," and Sen. Chuck Schumer described him as "a rising talent and an extraordinary activist."

"Whenever you work with Ryan on an issue, as a colleague, you quickly become a friend because he was such a warm, endearing and fun guy to be around," said Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics.

Loved ones also held a vigil at the scene Monday night, just steps away from the home he shared with his roommates.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: New York
KEYWORDS: briandowling; brooklyn; crownheights; insanitydefense; newyork; newyorkcity; ryancarson; shouldgetprobation
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To: grundle

“Carson remembered as community advocate”

Looks like we got us a twofer.


41 posted on 10/05/2023 12:27:35 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: grundle

Loved ones also held a vigil at the scene Monday night, just steps away from the home he shared with his roommates?

so why was he standing outside his own building at 4am waiting for a bus, walking behind a complete stranger?

i think this was a drug deal gone wrong.


42 posted on 10/05/2023 12:30:16 PM PDT by blacknazi (Black Viking)
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To: dfwgator
“Hey honey, let’s go walking on Malcolm X Blvd at 4 AM in the morning to show we’re down with the struggle, waddaya say?”

Sorely lacking in situational awareness that's for sure. I don't like to drive through Bed-Stuy in broad daylight.

43 posted on 10/05/2023 12:30:43 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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To: desertsolitaire
Is Bedford Sty a bad neighborhood in general?

In general yeah. And it pushes up against the more upscale Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights.

44 posted on 10/05/2023 12:35:33 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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To: grundle

Oh, he doesn’t look related to THE Brian Dowling, Yale/Rams QB and inspiration for Doonesbury’s B.D. character.


45 posted on 10/05/2023 12:41:34 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Bonemaker
"Looks like we got us a twofer." <> A real twofer would've been the guy AND his girlfriend. She's an activist also...

“Following the tragic incident, a flurry of social media activity was sparked, with people unearthing old posts where Morales was seen wearing an ACAB T-shirt during the BLM movement in 2020."

46 posted on 10/05/2023 12:41:54 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: 1Old Pro

“Is Bedford Sty a bad neighborhood in general?”

Let’s just say it’s bad enough at 2 PM and a definite no go at 4 AM especially for the melanin deficient.


47 posted on 10/05/2023 12:44:01 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Robert DeLong
He was also affiliated with Antifa.

At a minimum he was a far left activist. His girlfriend was BLM/ANTIFA activist. Lots of pics of her online wearing an ACAB shirt. I bet she wishes one of those bastard cops was around to stop her boyfriend's murder. Nah, she will somehow contort this event into a pretzel until it's OUR fault. Maybe she will set up a gofundme to pay his bail.

48 posted on 10/05/2023 12:47:39 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: thefactor

He’ll be the prom queen in the slammer with that purty mouth and pigtails.


49 posted on 10/05/2023 12:50:05 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: grundle

The mainstream media is making Carson out to be a hero when in reality he was an ANTIFA scumbag who didn’t mind seeing NYC looted and burned.


50 posted on 10/05/2023 12:50:27 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: ETCM
I bet she wishes one of those bastard cops was around to stop her boyfriend's murder.

Honestly, she didn't look too upset.

51 posted on 10/05/2023 12:51:18 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: JonPreston; x; BroJoeK; FLT-bird; jeffersondem
“The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man. Let me first explain what I mean by this White liberal. In America there’s no such thing as Democrats and Republicans anymore. That’s antiquated. In America you have liberals and conservatives. This is what the American political structure boils down to among Whites. The only people who are still living in the past and thinks in terms of “I’m a Democrat” or “I’m a Republican” is the American Negro. He’s the one who runs around bragging about party affiliation and he’s the one who sticks to the Democrat or sticks to the Republican, but White people in America are divided into two groups, liberals and Republicans…or rather, liberals and conservatives. And when you find White people vote in the political picture, they’re not divided in terms of Democrats and Republicans, they’re divided consistently as conservatives and as liberal. The Democrats who are conservative vote with Republicans who are conservative. Democrats who are liberals vote with Republicans who are liberals. You find this in Washington, DC. Now the White liberals aren’t White people who are for independence, who are liberal, who are moral, who are ethical in their thinking, they are just a faction of White people who are jockeying for power the same as the White conservatives are a faction of White people who are jockeying for power. Now they are fighting each other for booty, for power, for prestige and the one who is the football in the game is the Negro. Twenty million Black people in this country are a political football, a political pawn an economic football, an economic pawn, a social football, a social pawn...”

What he says is exactly correct.

52 posted on 10/05/2023 12:54:59 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: 1Old Pro

Oh my goodness had no idea. Why do the residents and us in general tolerate the existence of any such neighborhoods? Nit saying easy answers but tolerating is affirming it, almost.


53 posted on 10/05/2023 12:59:57 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (w)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“Oh, he doesn’t look related to THE Brian Dowling, Yale/Rams QB and inspiration for Doonesbury’s B.D. character.”

I’m a bit surprised that it took until post #45 for anyone to mention the famous college QB & helmeted comic strip character of the same name.


54 posted on 10/05/2023 1:07:25 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Robert DeLong

He was also affiliated with Antifa.


Strangely, neither F U Schumer or Mayor Adams mention that lil factoid, in their accolades for the belated “activist”.

🤔


55 posted on 10/05/2023 1:08:54 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The Great Dr. Sigmund Karnak: “A jacked up black paranoid schizophrenic about to murder someone, just cause.”
In the envelope: Pictures of Brian Dowling.


56 posted on 10/05/2023 1:10:50 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: 1Old Pro

Post #19: Great answer.


57 posted on 10/05/2023 1:26:28 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 1Old Pro
Honestly, she didn't look too upset.

I had the same impression. She did nothing to help him.

58 posted on 10/05/2023 1:27:28 PM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: Schatze
Honestly, she didn't look too upset. I had the same impression. She did nothing to help him.

I think soon we're going to find out why that is.

59 posted on 10/05/2023 1:30:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: desertsolitaire

Has been for a long time. Progressivism is not making it any better.


60 posted on 10/05/2023 1:33:18 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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