SELF DEFENSE SEMINAR BY CROWN HEIGHTS SHMIRA

When: Sunday, January 6th, @ 10:30am-12:30pm

Learn street-proven self-defense techniques! Learn how to defend against an attacker who is
stronger, more skilled, and even armed!

This two hour seminar is available to the entire Crown Heights community, offered by Crown Heights Shmira.

Three reasons to take self-defense training:

1. Protecting your own safety is important. Protecting your loved ones is even more important. Knowing a few self-defense techniques could be all that is needed to neutralize an attacker long enough for your loved ones to get to safety. If you are not studying self defense for you own sake, do it for those you care about.
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Shmira-NYPD Joint Operation Leads to Arrest for String of Robberies

A Crown Heights resident, who had recently been robbed of his cell phone at gunpoint by 2 male blacks, contacted Shmira for help in retrieving his stolen cell phone. A Shmira coordinator called the stolen phone and made contact with the suspect offering to purchase the phone. The suspect was interested and after some negotiations, the suspect agreed on $200 for the phone. A meet was set up for the exchange but not before the suspect gave a stern warning that police better not be called and reminding the Shmira coordinator that the phone was stolen at gunpoint.
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UNRELENTING THIEF

Sunday, December 23, 2012 approximately 2:00 AM A black male was spotted trying to break in to cars parked on Carroll Street, between Brooklyn and New York avenues, in Crown Heights.

Shmira members responded and kept a discreet eye on him from a distance. After observing him breaking in to one of them, owned by a recognizable Jewish resident, volunteers of the Shmira patrol group began a hot pursuit until President Street, where he was apprehended and held until police arrived.
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