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08/25/2007: "African uses race card to avoid neighborhood rules"

Kris Gounden, who is Guyanese, said his white neighbors have tried to run him out of his big new house in Hamilton Beach since he moved there 17 months ago.

Councilman Joseph Addabbo (D-Howard Beach), however, accused Gounden of playing the race card after getting written up for an expensive building violation.

"He knew Howard Beach. He knew its history and he used it to try to get around the building code," said Addabbo. "If he had done things up to code, no one would have bothered him."

Inspectors went to Gounden's home nine times in the past year, according to Buildings Department records. Seven of the complaints resulted in fines totaling $10,500. Two complaints were unfounded.

Neighbor Mark Troia, who said Michael Hussey Sr. smacked him with a bat last August, nonetheless blamed Gounden for the strife. "This had nothing to do with color," Troia said. "He's just a low-life that's making all kinds of waves around the neighborhood."

[ Make an easy out, they'll take it. ]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/25/2007-08-25_nypd_is_probing_police_race_bias_in_howa.html