In Adam Dickter’s story (“Hynes At War Against ‘Renegade’ Crown Heights Patrol,” May 2), which reported my investigation into the unprovoked attack on Andrew Charles, a young African-American, he quoted me as saying, “You can’t have a group, whether it’s the Bloods, Crips or Shmira, acting like vigilantes.” It was not my intention to suggest that the Shmira were capable of the violence that is the signature of street thugs like the Bloods and the Crips. What I meant to say was, when there is an organized group like Shmira, which may have been part of this unprovoked assault, that I intend to do everything possible to find out where the truth lies.
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